What’s New at Astricon 2014

AstriCon 2014 is happening right now in Las Vegas from October 22nd to the 24th, so if you’re not there here’s why you should attend next year.

Over the course of three days the annual AstriCon conference aims to fulfill its mission of expanding Asterisk expertise through these five areas:

• People
• Presentations
• Panels
• Products
• Projects

For fans, developeers, and businesses – this is the place for anyone who uses the Asterisk telephony platform to learn about the latest projects, updates, and technical details.

Hackathon

The first ever AstriCon Hackathon was held this year for communications designers and developers to challenge themselves in a fast-paced app designing contest with custom software built on Asterisk, Respoke, and Clarify.

Here’s a recent video that explains more about it:

What’s Respoke?

Also new at AstriCon this year is Respoke which is Digium’s new cloud-based platform that gives developers another tool for the growing use of web communications.

The Respoke API wants to make it easy to add voice, video, messaging, and data to applications.