More Time Travel
Malcolm Davenport September 21st, 2007
Aloha,
All this talk of time travel reminded me that I had some old photos from the LinuxWorld from the Winter of 2004 that was held in New York. Back then, the employee count was somewhere around a dozen or less.
And, our old booth, the first for which we enlisted help from Inergi. You’ll notice the aluminum trusses, of which we’re still big fans, and our even older, from our very first tradeshow, LinuxWorld San Francisco 2003, on the left and right sides. Thanks to Jeremy McNamara for the pictures.
Ahh, memories
I remember seeing you guys there. The xBox rig really made people think twice. Reminiscing about it, it was hard to realize the impact of Asterisk in todays market, or even tomorrows market..
Howdy,
That’s be the “PBX-BOX”
The thing I remember most about it, and the thing that I can’t seem to search Slashdot that far back in the past for, was a post-show comment by someone who thought the whole business was based on selling a modded X-BOX running Linux and telephony. Between the PBX-BOX and its controllers with tiny LCD screens, the SCCP phones, the MGCP phones, the H.323 phone, the SIP phones, an Adtran TSU120, an IAXy, S100U’s modified to run off the X-BOX’s USB ports, and the two other Asterisk servers, that show represented my second favorite demo of all time.
The first was one that included those same things minus the PBX-BOX but plus the servers doing fail-over between two T1 ports connected via multilink PPP. Geek out!
But, what I can’t remember is the name of that Belgian restaurant in Manhattan.
Hey the restaurant is called Markt it was in the Meat Packing I remember coz i still have the napkin holder
Boy does that bring back memories. That was my first real tradeshow. The one thing that I really remember was how much Greg Vance was stressing about how much the show was costing. Like a grand for internet, a hundred bucks for chairs, etc…
The best fun was had when we were hanging out waiting around for the shipping crates to show up after the show
I have uploaded a few more pics from that show.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/13959815@N03/
iirc, the first picture is with Mark, Malcolm and a Microsoft ‘executive’.