Howdy y’all,
You may have noticed the banner at the top of the forums recently announcing the Call For Speakers for AstriCon 2025 deadline of October 15th.*
As the Open Source Solutions Advocate at Sangoma and AstriCon MC 
next year, I wanted to invite you to fill out the application for a FreePBX lightning 
talk of 25 minutes. We know FreePBX admins help provide dial tone around the world, and sharing a few (anonymized 
?) slides of what you do and how you scale can benefit fellow members of the community and the future of the project.
AstriCon welcomes FreePBX users!
There is also significant cross-pollination opportunity with other attendees of ITEXPO, specifically, Managed Service Providers looking to upgrade their voice solutions who are completely new to the Asterisk and FreePBX worlds. Earlier this year at AstriCon 2024, it was a real treat (and 
saver) to use the AstriCon pass to get in to any other part of the ITEXPO conference sessions over the course of the three-day event.
More to come on 2025, but we will be filling all 3 days of ITEXPO February 11-13 with AstriCon and pre-AstriCon AKA AstriDemoCon content, with trainings, demos, socials, workshops, talks, discussions, receptions, competitions, networking opportunities, and much, much more!
To give you some more ideas, you should unblock YouTube on your firewall 
, and check out some of the AstriCon 2024 presentations:
Special mention of an awesome FreePBX presentation by @mbrooks from AstriCon 2021’s Virtual Conference showing GraphQL integration – which works great on v17:
^^^ Yes, FreePBX talks are welcome @ AstriCon. ^^^
See you in Florida this winter!
* Discourse lets me pick 11:59 PM in Pacific/Samoa 
GMT-11 which should show in your local timezone as 2024-10-16T10:59:00Z - couldn’t get a count-down timer - anyhow, you’ve got two weeks or so to apply…