We have successfully completed two certification and training dates on Mexico and Bogota, with the addition of 9 Elastix Certified Technicians and 10 Elastix Certified Engineers.

Next Dates 

Continuing our training schedule our next date will take place in Mexico City  for an Upgrade course to ECE, March 24, 25 and 26 at Neocenter. We also want to announce the opening of four dates:

• ECE (Spanish) - Cali, April 12 to 16 - Testing Center: Business Support
• ECE (Spanish) - Guayaquil, April 19 to 23 - Testing Center: PaloSanto Solutions
• ECT/ECE (Spanish) - Mendoza, April 26 to 30 - Testing Center: Sisdetel  
• ECE (Spanish) - Lima, May 10 to 14 - Testing Center: Infobox

 

 

 

 

 

 

We are working hard to publish soon a certification date in Portuguese. For this effort we have the help of our partners  from Brazil and Portugal, INNOVUS and PCMASTER.

Stay tuned for new dates and locations.

ELASTIX TRAINING SCHEDULE FOR FEBRUARY AND MARCH

The Elastix Project has the honor to announce that the January 2009 Community Member of the Month is Jorge Gutierrez (jgutierrez ). Jorge is one of the contributers that helps the most in the Spanish and English Elastix forums. He works at Palosanto Solutions , the company that created Elastix, giving support to its clients. For Jorge, just working at the company is not enough, he also dedicates a lot of his free time giving support to the Elastix community through the forums.

Thank you, Jorge, for your support, and congratulations for doing a great job.

ELASTIX AT ITEXPO MIAMI - 2010

The INTERNET TELEPHONY CONFERENCE & EXPO 2010, better known as ITEXPO took place on January 20-22, 2010 at the Miami Beach Convention Center in Miami, USA.

ITEXPO is an event that brings together IP telephony exhibitors, integrators  and providers of complementary services from around the world. It is one of the most important IP telephony Expos in the USA and takes place twice a year in Miami and Los Angeles respectively.

Elastix was represented in ITEXPO this year colocated with Sangoma Technologies, one of our leading technology partners.
                                                                                                                       
At ITEXPO, Elastix had the opportunity to showcase the new features included in Elastix 2.0. This event was also used as a platform for the launch of the new ELX Series Appliance "ELX-5000", designed to reach 250 concurrent calls and to work in high availability environments.

At the same time, Elastix had the opportunity to share the open panel discussion “Has Open Source Telephony Crossed The Chasm” with executives from Sangoma, Xorcom, Digium, and Dialogic. This panel hosted a great discussion on the present and future of open source telephony.

Finally, this was a great time for meeting with many members of the Elastix community. Likewise, our partners had a chance to Exchange future ideas for Elastix.

The Elastix project has the honour to announce the winners of the “Contributor of the Year 2009” awards. These awards are brought to you thanks to the following sponsors:

First Place $1000, “Contributor of the Year 2009” Award Goes to Bob Fryer

Bob, who is from Australia, is known by many of you because of the excellent support that he gives on our community forums, where he is also a moderator.

However, he does not only collaborate on the Elastix forums, but also is the founder of the Elastix Connection website, where one can find excellent documentation related to Elastix. Bob has also contributed in the development of Ben Shariff's book, “Elastix Without Tears .” Recently, Bob became one of the first Elastix bloggers, and he has already contributed with several posts. Bob is also one of our main beta testers, he actually has hardware specially dedicated for the testing of the beta versions of Elastix.

Among his most recent projects, Bob works together with Mark Brooker in porting an improved version of the Trixbox endpoints configuration module to Elastix.

Second Place $500, “Contributor of the Year” Award goes to Franck Danard

Franck Danard, from France, is the person that participates the most in the Elastix forum, and the one that has the highest karma rating. Thanks to Franck, the French forum was created where he is the moderator. He is also member of the beta testers and developers groups. Within these two groups, Franck has shared with the community some template improvements for the Elastix call center module.

Ten Honorable Mention Contributors

Besides the two “Contributors of the Year,” we have the pleasure to present to you the ten honorable mention contributors who will be awarded with an IP Phone. These are presented in alphabetical order:

Alfio Muñoz, from the Dominican Republic, participates in the Elastix forums, several mailing lists, and the Elastix chat channels. Thanks to Alfio, the Elastix Spanish chat channel was registered, and he is always there available to help when needed. Currently, his most important work is his book, “Elastix Con Sabor Merengue” that will be published next week.	Anderson Gouveia, from Portugal, has helped us to coordinate the Portuguese Elastix community. Thanks to him, we now have a Portuguese mailing list where problems are resolved in that language. Some of his other contributions include the translation of the Elastix installation manual into Portuguese.
Augusto Sepúlveda, from Mexico, is a very active member in the Spanish Elastix forums and in the Spanish mailing list. In both places, he always gives excellent support. Augusto is also one of the main bloggers in the Spanish Elastix blog.	Ben Shariff, from Australia, is the author of the book, “Elastix Without Tears.” This book is considered to be one of the main resources available to Elastix users.
Dicko Ollet, from the United States, is one of the forum members that participates the most. He also has one of the highest karma ratings. Most of you have probably received support from Dicko.	Fernando Villares, from Argentina, is one of our main Elastix Project beta testers. Thanks to Fernando, we created the mailing list for the beta testers, which is the main means of communication between the beta testers and the project developers. Fernando is also continually providing support in the Spanish mailing lists.
Josiah Spackman (chilling_silence), from New Zealand, is very active in the Elastix forums by giving support to users. He has also published several Elastix tips, and as a result, he has become one of our regular bloggers.	Haamed Kouhfallah, from Iran, helped translate Elastix to the Persian language. He has also worked on a RPM that allows to have right-to-left support in Elastix GUI. Thanks to Haamed, we also created the Asterisk Programming forum.
Patrick_elx, from France though now lives in Miami, USA, is very active in the Spanish and French Elastix forums. He also contributes to the Superfecta pluggin for FreePBX.	Ramón Lozano, from Spain, is better known as Ramoncio. Ramón is very active in both the Spanish and the English Elastix forums. Besides being one of our most active participants, he is also a forum moderator. His main contribution has been the creation of the Avant Fax RPM.

Congratulations to everyone, to those who are on the above list and to those that are not. This has been a great year!