After the success of the first Elastix Certified Engineer (ECE) training courses we take the next step by offering you a more complete Elastix training program. The Elastix Certified Technician (ECT) is a training program aimed at enthusiasts who wish to take their first steps in gaining practical experience from Elastix experts.

This 20 hour course, aimed at novice users from the VOIP world, Asterisk, and GNU/Linux, is going to be taught over a period of three days.

After successfully passing the certification examination, the student will be ready to manage and give support to Elastix PBX systems. He will also be able to pass the ECE certification by only taking 20 hours of the 40 hour course.

The first course is going to take place in México D.F. on July 1-3, 2009.  For more information download the following file and reserve your place.

The Elastix project is happy to announce that our first repository mirror server is ready to use. This server would allow users to have much faster updates and it would free traffic from the main server. To use this repos, all you need to do is copy this file in your Elastix servers to: /etc/yum.repos.d/elastix.repo. If you need support please read this thread in the forums.

We want to thank the University of Almería, specially to Paco Gil and Julio Gómez from the research team UALTech, for giving us the space in one of their servers and the bandwidth for this mirror. It is important to note that the server is located in RedIris network that integrates the universities of Spain, so they have fast Internet connection.

The UALTech group consists of researches from the Almería Univsersity with a technical profile that focus in new technologies such as security, network, GNU/Linux, free software, ip telephony, home automation, etc.. We invite you to visit their wiki where you can find interesting projects from students that are finishing their degree.

It is important to note that all this is possible thanks to Ramón Lozano (ramoncio) who made all the coordination to make this repositories available. If another member of the community would like to help the project with an additional mirror, please contact rbonifaz{at}elastix.org. The user base of Elastix has grown a more than our expectations so it is important to have a lot of mirror servers so everyone can have fastest updates.

The Elastix Project has the honor to present Anderson Gouveia as the April 2009 community member of the month. Anderson has been working on creating the Portuguese Elastix community. Among his accomplishments we would like highlight the Portuguese mailing list with more than 80 users register and a lot of mail activity . Anderson also translated the Elastix user manual to Portuguese and it can be found in the download area.

Thanks you Anderson for the support to our community.

Nominations are over, thanks all for your support. Stay tune for the results on June 22.

Source Forge has launched the nominations for the Community Choice Awards 2009. The Elastix project has been nominated in various categories in the years of 2007 and 2008. With the support of the community we are sure we can became finalists again. So vote for Elastix and remember that you can vote for more than one category. We recommend to vote in the following areas:

• Most Likely to Change the Way You Do Everything
• Best Project for the Enterprise
• Best Project

Lulu, a popular book printer on demand (POD) company, has announced the “April Sales Contest” winners were the books with the highest sales in each category are mentioned. We are pleasantly surprised that Unified Communications with Elastix, Vol. 1 (Spanish) was the bestseller book in the category of “Computers & Internet”.

There is no doubt that this news is exciting and it shows the popularity and the success of the Elastix project. We would like to thank everybody who made this recognition possible. This success is also yours!