Simon Phipps created a podcast of the event which you can find here:

• MP3
• Ogg
• iTunes

You can find the slides I used for reference during my presentation here.

You can find the slides on my presentations page, and here is a direct link to the PDF.

A couple of people have asked me which VoIP phones and ATAs I recommend. I don’t have a load of experience with different brands but have done a fair bit of research and really like the SNOM phones and the Linksys (Sipura) ATAs the best.

The main advantages of these units is that they are of fairly high quality a very good price. They are very configurable and have the advantage of being mass deployed via DHCP, TFTP and CGI based config files.

So for those that are wondering I will attempt to cover the following topics in no particular order or level of detail

• VoIP
• Codecs, which one should I use
• VoIP Hardware (Phones, ATAs, ISDN and PSTN cards, Mobile Pods)
• VoIP Providers and what they offer
• Asterisk and what it can do
• Beagle Internet IVR and distributed VoIP Call Centre as a case study
• Asterisk@Home

If there is anything else that in particular you are interested in or would like me to talk about then let me know.

I’ll also be bringing along various bits of hardware and hope to have a full demonstration running.

At Jeff’s request I will be doing an in depth overview of the difference between FXO and FXS and why it is critically important to any VoIP implementation. This will most likely require at least 20 slides and about 50 minutes of explanation

I gave a talk on Open Source in the Data Centre. Luckily this talk was after lunch so I got to do some editing in the morning sessions to tweak it more towards a business rather than technical audience.

The conference was pretty awesome with interesting talks, ranging from Xen to how wotif.com was started.

Copies of the slides for all the talks should eventually make it onto the conference’s website.

The talk is entitled Open Source in the Data Centre and I’ll be covering things like

• Load Balancing “Stuff” (IPVS, keepalived, heartbeat)
• Monitoring using Nagios and MRTG/rrdtool
• Authentication with OpenLDAP anf FreeRADIUS

and a whole lot of other random things I can fit into 40 minutes.

I choose to blame Pia for putting me in a position to give this talk but only because it’s Jeff’s fault and there isn’t a justblamejdub.com

If anyone wants to catch up on the Monday night down in Melbourne then let me know.

I’ll put slides up after the event.

The slides are fairly sparse, the talk was a bit of a brain dump about random things to do with ISPs. I’m sure someone is going to ask me to give it at SLUG again at some stage

As part of the lead up to linux.conf.au 2007, the AV Team is going to be using this day as a trial run to test out some of the technology we will probably be using at the conference, this currently includes

• Flumotion for streaming of talks
• Streaming from a scan converter for slides
• Recording to DVDs using a consumer DVD recorder for post production and upload to the website
• Standard recording to DV Tape as a backup

Apparently I will also be giving a workshop at 1pm, I say apparently because as usual we get to justblamepia.com. For the unwary, suggesting to Pia that you might be able to give a talk means that you will The talk is currently titled How to build your own ISP – But why you shouldn’t, it will focus on the right way to set one up from scratch from my experiences at ZipWorld and Beagle Internet.