<html><body><div style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: #000000"><div>Anyone going up to Charlotte at the end of the week?</div><div><br data-mce-bogus="1"></div><div>I'm thinking about it.</div><div><br data-mce-bogus="1"></div><div>My parents live about 30 miles out so I an planning on staying there with the exception of Friday. Google's pre-party would make it difficult for me at 41 to go back to their house and be back by 9am the next morning. Not sure what the "pre-party" is. I've not found my details on the after-hours activities. I may get a room for Friday night. </div><div><br data-mce-bogus="1"></div><div>I'm still going through the BoF/talks schedule to pin down which ones I would benefit from the most.</div><div><br data-mce-bogus="1"></div><div>I'm tend to stay away from talks at trade shows because I feel as is sales is the end game: </div><div><br data-mce-bogus="1"></div><div>Best practices in VoiP Security.</div><div><br data-mce-bogus="1"></div><div>Hello, glad you could join us for this talk. Our panel today of speakers telling you about the best practices in VoIP security are from "Secureyourvoip.com"</div><div><br data-mce-bogus="1"></div><div>I'm going to guess that not only are they they experts, but they also have the equipment I need to lock it down. This makes me skeptical about anything they pitch.</div><div><br data-mce-bogus="1"></div><div>I gave a BoF at ALS many years ago for my employer at the time. I agreed to talk about the ideas as long as I refrained about talking about who I worked for or what we sold. I felt like that for a BoF I need to not try to evangelize a product. Talk about an idea or technique and then let others talk and think about it. I may have mentioned who I worked for once. I don't think I ever mentioned our products. That was in 2000. A long time ago. :)</div><div><br data-mce-bogus="1"></div><div><br data-mce-bogus="1"></div><div><br data-mce-bogus="1"></div><div><br data-mce-bogus="1"></div><div><br data-mce-bogus="1"></div><div><br data-mce-bogus="1"></div><div><br data-mce-bogus="1"></div><div><br data-mce-bogus="1"></div><div><br data-mce-bogus="1"></div></div></body></html>