We will be testing the HarQen Symposia product in this session, with Marc della Torre. Symposia is a hard thing to describe in a few words, you really need to see it to understand what it might bring to a conference. This is exactly what we hope to see happen for this conference.

Recording with bookmarks

Key moments can be marked by participants (see the timeline of the recording below).

 Views of finished Symposia recordings are available and can be shared via email links. The capture on the left shows a Participants list, a Search facility, Flags such as “concern”, “to-do”, etc, Topics and Mentions in the left hand column of that screen. On the right hand side, Shared Moments, Starred mMoments, and Images Shared are visible.

There are some great concepts here for a focused business conference that make HarQen’s quote understandable: “Ever sat through an hour-long webinar or meeting and afterward wished you could share the two minutes that mattered with someone else?” I believe you’ll have to see this to understand it, so we’ll try to coordinate all of our our usual channels, ZipDX, IRC  with this moment and make sure everyone who wishes can participate.

 

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Friday January 20th

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The SIP school offers training and certification in SIP and other VoIP technologies. Use VUC discount code VUC10 for 10% off!

As the provider of the global standard in SIP training and certification, The SIP School has taught thousands of employees in the telecommunications industry how to better  support their clients, products, and services. Until recently, students training to become an SIP School  Certified Associate (SSCA®) were instructed in their first session to create a SIP address with any free service. Today, The SIP School announces another option by working with OnSIP as their SIP  service provider – leveraging the OnSIP API to provision each student with a SIP address on thesipschool.com domain.

This is the original press release.

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Friday the 13th of January

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The recorded session begins with a reminder of the TTS jokes contest where your entry might win a Kindle Fire. Winner announced Friday, February 3rd on the VUC.

Olle Johansson joins us again in a rare visit to discuss the state of IPv6 adoption. Also heard from, lost of us who have or have not done it and why or why not.

We did a VUC Google Plus Hangout during the call as we will often be doing. These usually begin an hour or so before the actual conference. Please make sure you have the VUC G+ Page circled! During the hangout we looked at the Invoxia Desk Phone for iOS devices and the Polycom VVX-500 touch screen SIP phone.

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Friday, January 6th at 12 Noon EST

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Village-Telco-Logo-200 Friday, January 6th we will once again be joined by Steve Song of The Village Telco. Steve last appeared in November 2009 to tell us about The Village Telco and their innovative, open source hardware called the Mesh Potato. Since that time Mesh Potatoes have started shipping and the project has made considerable progress.

In addition, Steve recently appeared at an African conference presenting on the importance of RF “white spaces” to the future of telecom in Africa. The white spaces debate there is very similar to similar issues faced in North America.

The initial question must be , “why does this matter?” Will the entrenched powers lock everyone else out of the RF landscape through the regulatory system? Or will a more open approach prevail?

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Speech Recognition with Speech Technology Group

January 2, 2012

When Gerd Graumann last visited with us in December, we talked about Speech Technology Group‘s  natural text-to-speech voices and launched the speech humor contest. In this session he will announce the winner and play the funniest submissions. The discussion will be on speech recognition technology, which has lately taken center stage though the widespread mobile [...]

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Happy 2012 from the VUC

December 30, 2011

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The recording is an informal chat (is there any other kind of VUC?) about Republic Wireless (why won’t Brian talk to us?) and Invoxia’s iOS desk phone, the one Michael Graves is evaluating. 2011 was a fantastic year for VUC. I was able to get to Astricon, thanks to Digium, and met several new VUC [...]

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