<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?><feed xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom" ><generator uri="https://jekyllrb.com/" version="4.3.4">Jekyll</generator><link href="https://danielpocock.com/feed/xmpp.xml" rel="self" type="application/atom+xml" /><link href="https://danielpocock.com/" rel="alternate" type="text/html" /><updated>2026-04-05T11:34:02+02:00</updated><id>https://danielpocock.com/feed/xmpp.xml</id><title type="html">Daniel Pocock’s personal blog | Xmpp</title><subtitle>{&quot;de&quot;=&gt;&quot;Softwareentwickler, Free Software-Berater, Debian-Entwickler&quot;, &quot;en&quot;=&gt;&quot;Software engineer, Free, Open Source Software Consultant, Innovator, Fedora &amp; Debian Developer&quot;, &quot;es&quot;=&gt;&quot;Ingeniera de software, Consultor de software libre, Desarrollador Debian&quot;, &quot;fr&quot;=&gt;&quot;Ingénieur logiciel, developeur du logiciel libré, Developeur du Debian&quot;, &quot;it&quot;=&gt;&quot;Ingegnere informatico, Consulente di software libero, Sviluppatore Debian&quot;}</subtitle><entry xml:lang="en"><title type="html">ClueCon 2024 photos</title><link href="https://danielpocock.com/en/cluecon-2024-photos/" rel="alternate" type="text/html" title="ClueCon 2024 photos" /><published>2024-08-16T08:30:00+02:00</published><updated>2024-08-16T08:30:00+02:00</updated><id>https://danielpocock.com/en/cluecon-2024-photos</id><content type="html" xml:base="https://danielpocock.com/en/cluecon-2024-photos/">&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://danielpocock.com/category/cluecon&quot;&gt;ClueCon&lt;/a&gt; has just finished.  Here are some of my photos.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;h3&gt;Monday, pizza night&lt;/h3&gt;

&lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;img width=&quot;100%&quot; alt=&quot;Rita Lopes, David Duffet, Bianca Brisc, ClueCon 2024, Signalwire&quot; src=&quot;https://danielpocock.com/assets/2024-08-12-cluecon/DSC_3424_c.JPG&quot;/&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;img width=&quot;100%&quot; alt=&quot;Gretchen Atkins, ClueCon 2024, Signalwire&quot; src=&quot;https://danielpocock.com/assets/2024-08-12-cluecon/DSC_3476_s.JPG&quot;/&gt;

&lt;h3&gt;Tuesday&lt;/h3&gt;

&lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;img width=&quot;100%&quot; alt=&quot;Anthony Minessale, ClueCon 2024, Signalwire&quot; src=&quot;https://danielpocock.com/assets/2024-08-12-cluecon/DSC_3509_c.JPG&quot;/&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;img width=&quot;100%&quot; alt=&quot;Anthony Minessale, ClueCon 2024, Signalwire&quot; src=&quot;https://danielpocock.com/assets/2024-08-12-cluecon/DSC_3520_s.JPG&quot;/&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;img width=&quot;100%&quot; alt=&quot;Diego Gosmar, ClueCon 2024, Signalwire&quot; src=&quot;https://danielpocock.com/assets/2024-08-12-cluecon/DSC_3527_s.JPG&quot;/&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;img width=&quot;100%&quot; alt=&quot;Diego Gosmar, ClueCon 2024, Signalwire&quot; src=&quot;https://danielpocock.com/assets/2024-08-12-cluecon/DSC_3553_c.JPG&quot;/&gt;

&lt;h3&gt;Tuesday, Gigabit reception and 20th birthday party for ClueCon&lt;/h3&gt;

&lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;img width=&quot;100%&quot; alt=&quot;Cake, ClueCon 2024, Signalwire&quot; src=&quot;https://danielpocock.com/assets/2024-08-12-cluecon/DSC_3568_c.JPG&quot;/&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;img width=&quot;100%&quot; alt=&quot;Anthony Minessale, Brian West, Michael Jerris, Abigail Minessale, ClueCon 2024, Signalwire&quot; src=&quot;https://danielpocock.com/assets/2024-08-12-cluecon/DSC_3579_c.JPG&quot;/&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;img width=&quot;100%&quot; alt=&quot;Anthony Minessale, Brian West, ClueCon 2024, Signalwire&quot; src=&quot;https://danielpocock.com/assets/2024-08-12-cluecon/DSC_3584_c.JPG&quot;/&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;img width=&quot;100%&quot; alt=&quot;Anthony Minessale, Michael Jerris, Brian West, ClueCon 2024, Signalwire&quot; src=&quot;https://danielpocock.com/assets/2024-08-12-cluecon/DSC_3594_c.JPG&quot;/&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;img width=&quot;100%&quot; alt=&quot;Abigail Minessale, Dani Plicka, ClueCon 2024, Signalwire&quot; src=&quot;https://danielpocock.com/assets/2024-08-12-cluecon/DSC_3596_c.JPG&quot;/&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;img width=&quot;100%&quot; alt=&quot;Abigail Minessale, Evan McGee, ClueCon 2024, Signalwire&quot; src=&quot;https://danielpocock.com/assets/2024-08-12-cluecon/DSC_3619_c.JPG&quot;/&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;img width=&quot;100%&quot; alt=&quot;ClueCon 2024, Signalwire&quot; src=&quot;https://danielpocock.com/assets/2024-08-12-cluecon/DSC_3649_c.JPG&quot;/&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;img width=&quot;100%&quot; alt=&quot;ClueCon 2024, Signalwire&quot; src=&quot;https://danielpocock.com/assets/2024-08-12-cluecon/DSC_3653_s.JPG&quot;/&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;img width=&quot;100%&quot; alt=&quot;ClueCon 2024, Signalwire&quot; src=&quot;https://danielpocock.com/assets/2024-08-12-cluecon/DSC_3692_c.JPG&quot;/&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;img width=&quot;100%&quot; alt=&quot;Kat, ClueCon 2024, Signalwire&quot; src=&quot;https://danielpocock.com/assets/2024-08-12-cluecon/DSC_3714_s.JPG&quot;/&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;img width=&quot;100%&quot; alt=&quot;Fred Posner, Kamailio, ClueCon 2024, Signalwire&quot; src=&quot;https://danielpocock.com/assets/2024-08-12-cluecon/DSC_3756_s.JPG&quot;/&gt;

&lt;h3&gt;Wednesday, panel discussion&lt;/h3&gt;

&lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;img width=&quot;100%&quot; alt=&quot;Luca Pradovera, Jakub Karolczyk, Chris Rienzo, Michael Jerris, Brian West, Anthony Minessale, ClueCon 2024, Signalwire&quot; src=&quot;https://danielpocock.com/assets/2024-08-12-cluecon/DSC_3829_s.JPG&quot;/&gt;

&lt;h3&gt;Wednesday, Casino night&lt;/h3&gt;

&lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;img width=&quot;100%&quot; alt=&quot;Jeff Pulver, ClueCon 2024, Signalwire&quot; src=&quot;https://danielpocock.com/assets/2024-08-12-cluecon/DSC_3904_s.JPG&quot;/&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;img width=&quot;100%&quot; alt=&quot;Gretchen Atkins, ClueCon 2024, Signalwire&quot; src=&quot;https://danielpocock.com/assets/2024-08-12-cluecon/DSC_3914_c.JPG&quot;/&gt;

&lt;h3&gt;Thursday, Dangerous Demos&lt;/h3&gt;

&lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;img width=&quot;100%&quot; alt=&quot;Anthony Minessale, Brian West, Bianca Brisca, ClueCon 2024, Signalwire&quot; src=&quot;https://danielpocock.com/assets/2024-08-12-cluecon/DSC_4457_c.JPG&quot;/&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;img width=&quot;100%&quot; alt=&quot;David Duffet, Bianca Brisca, Daniel-Constatin Mierla, ClueCon 2024, Signalwire&quot; src=&quot;https://danielpocock.com/assets/2024-08-12-cluecon/DSC_4461_c.JPG&quot;/&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;img width=&quot;100%&quot; alt=&quot;Andy Smith, James Body, Dangerous Demos, ClueCon 2024, Signalwire&quot; src=&quot;https://danielpocock.com/assets/2024-08-12-cluecon/DSC_4464_c.JPG&quot;/&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;img width=&quot;100%&quot; alt=&quot;Daniel-Constatin Mierla, Diego Gosmar, ClueCon 2024, Signalwire&quot; src=&quot;https://danielpocock.com/assets/2024-08-12-cluecon/DSC_4482_c.JPG&quot;/&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;img width=&quot;100%&quot; alt=&quot;ClueCon 2024, Signalwire&quot; src=&quot;https://danielpocock.com/assets/2024-08-12-cluecon/DSC_4484_c.JPG&quot;/&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;img width=&quot;100%&quot; alt=&quot;Abigail Minessale, Bianca Brisca, ClueCon 2024, Signalwire&quot; src=&quot;https://danielpocock.com/assets/2024-08-12-cluecon/DSC_4497_c.JPG&quot;/&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;img width=&quot;100%&quot; alt=&quot;Gretchen Atkins, David Duffet, ClueCon 2024, Signalwire&quot; src=&quot;https://danielpocock.com/assets/2024-08-12-cluecon/DSC_4500_c.JPG&quot;/&gt;

&lt;h3&gt;Thursday, final raffle prize&lt;/h3&gt;

&lt;p&gt;Seven Du from China won the Macbook.  Congratulations.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;img width=&quot;100%&quot; alt=&quot;Seven Du, Anthony Minessale, ClueCon 2024, Signalwire&quot; src=&quot;https://danielpocock.com/assets/2024-08-12-cluecon/DSC_4521_c.JPG&quot;/&gt;</content><author><name></name></author><category term="[&quot;debian&quot;, &quot;ubuntu&quot;, &quot;mozilla&quot;, &quot;fsfe&quot;, &quot;fedora&quot;, &quot;cluecon&quot;, &quot;freertc&quot;, &quot;sip&quot;, &quot;xmpp&quot;, &quot;im&quot;]" /><category term="promote" /><summary type="html">ClueCon has just finished. Here are some of my photos.</summary></entry><entry xml:lang="en"><title type="html">Comparing private and peer-to-peer VoIP solutions</title><link href="https://danielpocock.com/en/comparing-private-and-p2p-voip-solutions/" rel="alternate" type="text/html" title="Comparing private and peer-to-peer VoIP solutions" /><published>2021-02-12T09:30:00+01:00</published><updated>2021-02-12T09:30:00+01:00</updated><id>https://danielpocock.com/en/comparing-private-and-p2p-voip-solutions</id><content type="html" xml:base="https://danielpocock.com/en/comparing-private-and-p2p-voip-solutions/">&lt;p&gt;One of the top questions people ask RTC developers around Valentine&apos;s Day is whether we finally have a private solution people can use to communicate with their partner.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;There is fresh attention on the issue this year after Twitter and other large providers flexed their muscles and demonstrated that they are more powerful than the US President.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;h3&gt;Suggestions&lt;/h3&gt;

&lt;p&gt;Two products to try are &lt;a href=&quot;https://jami.net/&quot;&gt;Jami&lt;/a&gt; (Chat, voice, video) and &lt;a href=&quot;https://briarproject.org/&quot;&gt;Briar&lt;/a&gt; (Chat only).&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;Neither of these is complete or perfect.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;Nonetheless, they are now at a stage where you can try them with friends and give useful feedback to the developers or help packaging them in distributions.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;h3&gt;Getting the latest Jami and Briar on Fedora and Debian&lt;/h3&gt;

&lt;p&gt;I started a &lt;a href=&quot;https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/devel@lists.fedoraproject.org/thread/CJIH7LIQ5VKAP7SQ3FPFWF33T466P3LV/&quot;&gt;discussion on the Fedora devel list about packaging the latest Jami code&lt;/a&gt;.  Due to ffmpeg patent issues, it will need to be distributed through &lt;a href=&quot;https://rpmfusion.org/&quot;&gt;RPM Fusion&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;For users of Debian 10 (buster), I&apos;ve published backports of the latest build in the Debify repository.  You can install like this:&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;blockquote&gt;&lt;em&gt;
&lt;p&gt;wget -O - http://apt.debify.org/add-apt-debify | bash&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;sudo apt update&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;sudo apt install -t debify-buster-backports jami&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;

&lt;p&gt;You can ask questions about Jami &lt;a href=&quot;https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/jami&quot;&gt;on the Jami mailing list here&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;Briar packaging is held up by politics in Debian.  I had been working on some of the Java packaging toolchain before people decided to put politics first.  If anybody would like to see Briar on Debian, &lt;a href=&quot;https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=971526#10&quot;&gt;here are some of the outstanding technical issues&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;a href=&quot;https://f-droid.org/&quot;&gt;
&lt;img align=&quot;right&quot; width=&quot;25%&quot; src=&quot;https://danielpocock.com/assets/fdroid-logo-text.svg&quot;/&gt;
&lt;/a&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Both Jami and Briar apps are available, you can &lt;a href=&quot;https://f-droid.org/&quot;&gt;install them with F-Droid too&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;h3&gt;Privacy&lt;/h3&gt;

&lt;p&gt;Achieving independence from cloud services doesn&apos;t necessarily give you privacy.  There are trade-offs to be made.  John Goerzen recently published a blog about &lt;a href=&quot;https://changelog.complete.org/archives/10216-the-hidden-drawbacks-of-p2p-and-a-defense-of-signal&quot;&gt;privacy issues in current P2P tools&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;h3&gt;Ask us&lt;/h3&gt;

&lt;p&gt;You can ask questions about any RTC and VoIP products on &lt;a href=&quot;https://lists.freertc.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss&quot;&gt;the FreeRTC discussion list&lt;/a&gt;.  To receive periodic announcements about new products, subscribe to &lt;a href=&quot;https://lists.freertc.org/mailman/listinfo/announce&quot;&gt;FreeRTC announce&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;h3&gt;Standardization&lt;/h3&gt;

&lt;p&gt;There are various efforts to develop standards for true peer-to-peer communications.  The &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peer-to-peer_SIP&quot;&gt;SIP P2P / RELOAD effort&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;https://xmpp.org/extensions/xep-0174.html&quot;&gt;Serverless XMPP&lt;/a&gt; are worth looking at.  reSIProcate &lt;a href=&quot;https://github.com/resiprocate/resiprocate/tree/master/p2p&quot;&gt;includes initial efforts to support SIP RELOAD&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;a href=&quot;https://xmpp.org/extensions/xep-0174.html&quot;&gt;
&lt;img width=&quot;100%&quot; alt=&quot;Serverless XMPP, p2p, peer to peer, Donald Trump&quot; src=&quot;https://danielpocock.com/assets/Trump_Serverless_XMPP.png&quot;/&gt;
&lt;/a&gt;</content><author><name></name></author><category term="[&quot;debian&quot;, &quot;ubuntu&quot;, &quot;fedora&quot;, &quot;mozilla&quot;, &quot;fsfe&quot;, &quot;freertc&quot;, &quot;sip&quot;, &quot;xmpp&quot;, &quot;im&quot;]" /><category term="promote" /><summary type="html">One of the top questions people ask RTC developers around Valentine&apos;s Day is whether we finally have a private solution people can use to communicate with their partner.</summary></entry><entry xml:lang="en"><title type="html">FOSDEM 2020 Real-Time Communications Call for Participation</title><link href="https://danielpocock.com/en/fosdem-2020-rtc-cfp/" rel="alternate" type="text/html" title="FOSDEM 2020 Real-Time Communications Call for Participation" /><published>2019-10-29T16:55:00+01:00</published><updated>2019-10-29T16:55:00+01:00</updated><id>https://danielpocock.com/en/fosdem-2020-rtc-cfp</id><content type="html" xml:base="https://danielpocock.com/en/fosdem-2020-rtc-cfp/">&lt;h1 id=&quot;fosdem---real-time-communications-devroom-cfp&quot;&gt;FOSDEM - Real Time Communications devroom CfP&lt;/h1&gt;

&lt;h2 id=&quot;overview&quot;&gt;Overview&lt;/h2&gt;

&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://fosdem.org&quot;&gt;FOSDEM&lt;/a&gt; is one of the world’s premier meetings of free software developers,
with over five thousand people attending each year. FOSDEM 2020
takes place 1-2 February 2020 in Brussels, Belgium.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;This document contains information about:&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;ul&gt;
  &lt;li&gt;Real-Time Communications developer room (devroom) and lounge&lt;/li&gt;
  &lt;li&gt;speaking opportunities&lt;/li&gt;
  &lt;li&gt;volunteering in the devroom and lounge&lt;/li&gt;
  &lt;li&gt;social events (the legendary FOSDEM Beer Night and Saturday night dinners
provide endless networking opportunities)&lt;/li&gt;
  &lt;li&gt;the Planet aggregation sites for RTC blogs&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ul&gt;

&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;NEW:&lt;/strong&gt; Save yourself entering Free-RTC events and CFP deadlines into your
calendar and task list, follow our iCalendar feed:
&lt;a href=&quot;https://freertc.org/events.ics&quot;&gt;https://freertc.org/events.ics&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;h2 id=&quot;call-for-participation---real-time-communications-rtc&quot;&gt;Call for participation - Real Time Communications (RTC)&lt;/h2&gt;

&lt;p&gt;The Real-Time devroom and Real-Time lounge are about all things involving
real-time communication, including: XMPP, SIP, WebRTC, telephony,
mobile VoIP, codecs, peer-to-peer, privacy and encryption.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;We are looking for speakers for the devroom and volunteers and
participants for the tables in the Real-Time lounge.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;The devroom is only on Sunday, 2nd of February 2020. The lounge will
be present for both days.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;To discuss the devroom and lounge, please join the
&lt;a href=&quot;http://lists.freertc.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss&quot;&gt;Free-RTC mailing list&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;h3 id=&quot;speaking-opportunities&quot;&gt;Speaking opportunities&lt;/h3&gt;

&lt;p&gt;Note: if you used FOSDEM Pentabarf before, please use the same account/username&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;Real-Time Communications devroom: deadline 23:59 UTC on 15th of December.
Please use the &lt;a href=&quot;https://penta.fosdem.org/submission/FOSDEM20/&quot;&gt;Pentabarf&lt;/a&gt; system to submit a talk proposal for the
devroom. On the “General” tab, please look for the “Track” option and
choose “Real Time Communications devroom”.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;Other devrooms and lightning talks: some speakers may find their topic is
in the scope of more than one devroom. It is encouraged to apply to more
than one devroom and also consider proposing a lightning talk, but please
be kind enough to tell us if you do this by filling out the notes in the form.
Here you can find the &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.fosdem.org/2020/schedule/tracks/&quot;&gt;full list of devrooms&lt;/a&gt; and here you can apply for
a &lt;a href=&quot;https://fosdem.org/submit&quot;&gt;lightning talk&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;h3 id=&quot;first-time-speaking&quot;&gt;First-time speaking?&lt;/h3&gt;

&lt;p&gt;FOSDEM devrooms are a welcoming environment for people who have never
given a talk before. Please feel free to contact the devroom administrators
personally if you would like to ask any questions about it.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;h3 id=&quot;submission-guidelines&quot;&gt;Submission guidelines&lt;/h3&gt;

&lt;p&gt;The Pentabarf system will ask for many of the essential details. Please
remember to re-use your account from previous years if you have one.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;In the “Submission notes”, please tell us about:&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;ul&gt;
  &lt;li&gt;The purpose of your talk&lt;/li&gt;
  &lt;li&gt;Any other talk applications (devrooms, lightning talks, main track)&lt;/li&gt;
  &lt;li&gt;Availability constraints and special needs&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ul&gt;

&lt;p&gt;You can use HTML and links in your bio, abstract and description.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;If you maintain a blog, please consider providing us with the
URL of a feed with posts tagged for your RTC-related work.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;We will be looking for relevance to the conference and devroom themes,
presentations aimed at developers of free and open source software about
RTC-related topics.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;Please feel free to suggest a duration between 20 minutes and 55 minutes
but note that the final decision on talk durations will be made by the
devroom administrators based on the number of received proposals.
As the two previous devrooms have been combined into one, we may decide to
give shorter slots than in previous years so that more speakers can
participate.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;Please note FOSDEM aims to record and live-stream all talks.
The CC-BY license is used.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;h2 id=&quot;volunteers-needed&quot;&gt;Volunteers needed&lt;/h2&gt;

&lt;p&gt;To make the devroom and lounge run successfully, we are looking for
volunteers:&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;ul&gt;
  &lt;li&gt;FOSDEM provides video recording equipment and live streaming,
volunteers are needed to assist in this&lt;/li&gt;
  &lt;li&gt;Organizing one or more restaurant bookings (dependending upon number of
participants) for the evening of Saturday, 1 February&lt;/li&gt;
  &lt;li&gt;Participation in the Real-Time lounge&lt;/li&gt;
  &lt;li&gt;Circulating this Call for Participation to other mailing lists&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ul&gt;

&lt;h2 id=&quot;social-events-and-dinners&quot;&gt;Social events and dinners&lt;/h2&gt;

&lt;p&gt;The traditional FOSDEM beer night occurs on Friday, 31st of January.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;On Saturday night, there are usually dinners associated with
each of the devrooms. Most restaurants in Brussels are not so
large so these dinners have space constraints and reservations are
essential. Please subscribe to the &lt;a href=&quot;http://lists.freertc.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss&quot;&gt;Free-RTC mailing list&lt;/a&gt; for
further details about the Saturday night dinner options and how
you can register for a seat.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;h2 id=&quot;related-events-around-fosdem&quot;&gt;Related events around FOSDEM&lt;/h2&gt;

&lt;p&gt;As per usual, the &lt;a href=&quot;https://wiki.xmpp.org/web/Conferences/Summit_24&quot;&gt;XMPP Summit&lt;/a&gt; is happening ahead of FOSDEM. This time it will
take place on the 30th and 31st of January also in Brussels. All details
are available on the &lt;a href=&quot;https://wiki.xmpp.org/web/Conferences/Summit_24&quot;&gt;summit website&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;h2 id=&quot;spread-the-word-and-discuss&quot;&gt;Spread the word and discuss&lt;/h2&gt;

&lt;p&gt;If you know of any mailing lists where this CfP would be relevant, please
forward this document. If this devroom excites you, please blog or microblog
about it, especially if you are submitting a talk.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;If you regularly blog about RTC topics, please send details about your
blog to the planet site administrators:&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;ul&gt;
  &lt;li&gt;All projects    https://planet.freertc.org      planet@freertc.org&lt;/li&gt;
  &lt;li&gt;XMPP            https://planet.jabber.org       ralphm@ik.nu&lt;/li&gt;
  &lt;li&gt;SIP             https://planet.sip5060.net      planet@sip5060.net
    &lt;ul&gt;
      &lt;li&gt;(Español)     https://planet.sip5060.net/es/  planet@sip5060.net&lt;/li&gt;
    &lt;/ul&gt;
  &lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ul&gt;

&lt;p&gt;Please also link to the Planet sites from your own blog or web site as
this helps everybody in the free real-time communications community.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;h2 id=&quot;contact&quot;&gt;Contact&lt;/h2&gt;

&lt;p&gt;For any private queries, contact us directly using the address
&lt;strong&gt;fosdem-rtc-admin@freertc.org&lt;/strong&gt; and for any other queries please ask on
the &lt;a href=&quot;http://lists.freertc.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss&quot;&gt;Free-RTC mailing list&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;The devroom administration team:&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;ul&gt;
  &lt;li&gt;Saúl Ibarra Corretgé &lt;a href=&quot;mailto:s@saghul.net&quot;&gt;s@saghul.net&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
  &lt;li&gt;Ralph Meijer &lt;a href=&quot;mailto:ralphm@ik.nu&quot;&gt;ralphm@ik.nu&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
  &lt;li&gt;Daniel-Constantin Mierla &lt;a href=&quot;mailto:miconda@gmail.com&quot;&gt;miconda@gmail.com&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
  &lt;li&gt;Daniel Pocock &lt;a href=&quot;mailto:daniel@pocock.pro&quot;&gt;daniel@pocock.pro&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
  &lt;li&gt;Guus der Kinderen &lt;a href=&quot;mailto:guus.der.kinderen@gmail.com&quot;&gt;guus.der.kinderen@gmail.com&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ul&gt;</content><author><name></name></author><category term="[&quot;debian&quot;, &quot;ubuntu&quot;, &quot;fedora&quot;, &quot;fsfe&quot;, &quot;freertc&quot;, &quot;sip&quot;, &quot;xmpp&quot;, &quot;im&quot;, &quot;mozilla&quot;]" /><category term="promote" /><summary type="html">FOSDEM - Real Time Communications devroom CfP</summary></entry><entry xml:lang="en"><title type="html">What does the FSF censor during the Richard Stallman lynching?</title><link href="https://danielpocock.com/en/what-does-fsf-censor/" rel="alternate" type="text/html" title="What does the FSF censor during the Richard Stallman lynching?" /><published>2019-10-09T23:50:00+02:00</published><updated>2019-10-09T23:50:00+02:00</updated><id>https://danielpocock.com/en/what-does-fsf-censor</id><content type="html" xml:base="https://danielpocock.com/en/what-does-fsf-censor/">&lt;p&gt;A recent blog looks at how to &lt;a href=&quot;https://danielpocock.com/freedom-and-censorship-on-mailing-lists/&quot;&gt;work around censorship in mailing lists&lt;/a&gt;, especially the Free Software Foundation.  After all, the Free Software Foundation tells us that they use the word &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/free-sw.html&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;Free&lt;/em&gt; as in &lt;em&gt;Speech&lt;/em&gt;, rather than &lt;em&gt;Free&lt;/em&gt; as in &lt;em&gt;Beer&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;Here is an example of an email censored by the FSF.  There is no obvious way this email violates the &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/kind-communication.html&quot;&gt;GNU Kind Communications Guidelines&lt;/a&gt; or any other Code of Conduct.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;blockquote&gt;&lt;pre&gt;Subject: &lt;a href=&quot;https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/libreplanet-discuss/2019-09/msg00271.html&quot;&gt;Re: Nominate RMS for FSF award...&lt;/a&gt;
Date: Thu, 3 Oct 2019 00:07:30 +0200
From: Daniel Pocock &amp;lt;daniel@pocock.pro&amp;gt;
Reply-To: libreplanet-discuss@libreplanet.org
To: libreplanet-discuss@libreplanet.org


Personally, I feel this may not quite be correct although it is interesting.

By nominating him for the FSF award, you are saying that you need the
judges to confirm his status.  You don&apos;t need that at all.

RMS doesn&apos;t need to be nominated for or voted for to be considered a
winner of this award.  He is the founder of the organization, it was his
idea from the outset and that means he was the winner anyway before
there was an award.

Nonetheless, there are things that can be done to approximate the idea:

At a major event, perhaps LibrePlanet, ensure there is a significant
section of the program dedicated to thanking RMS for his FSF work,
bigger than the award ceremony because RMS is bigger than that.

Arrange for other organizations to recognize him for his service in
different ways, whether it is with awards, honorary titles or something
similar.
&lt;/pre&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;

&lt;p&gt;Why do the FSF staff censor an email like this supporting the founder of their organization and the founder of the Free Software movement?&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;Has the FSF become another &lt;a href=&quot;https://disguised.work/debian/safety-or-a-fake-community/&quot;&gt;Fake Community&lt;/a&gt;?&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;Since raising the issue of censorship in FSF, I received a number of emails from people who feel their own communications have been censored.  It looks like censorship is being used for multiple reasons:&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;ul&gt;
&lt;li&gt;To censor communications about the online lynching of Richard Stallman and hide the voices supporting him&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;To hide the questions about former FSF employee Molly de Blanc and the allegations that a &lt;a href=&quot;https://disguised.work/debian/mollamby-conflict-of-interest-privacy/&quot;&gt;undisclosed romantic affair with the leader of Debian was a serious conflict of interest&lt;/a&gt; when Debian endorsed her for the OSI board presidency.&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;To hide questions about donations from Google that coincide with infighting in other organizations (&lt;a href=&quot;https://disguised.work/debian/google-money-censorship-free-software/&quot;&gt;$300,000 to Debian&lt;/a&gt; before the Debian Christmas lynchings&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;https://lists.fsfellowship.eu/pipermail/discussion/2019-October/000250.html&quot;&gt;€75,000 to FSFE&lt;/a&gt; when they abolished community representatives).  How much does FSF receive from Google, can they promote Freedom without answering that question?&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ul&gt;

&lt;p&gt;In another recent donation scandal, MIT Media Lab staff &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.huffpost.com/entry/mit-jeffrey-epstein-donations_n_5d5fce19e4b02cc97c8c54a3&quot;&gt;systematically hid donations from convicted sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein&lt;/a&gt;, knowing that some other staff and donors would be outraged.  Likewise, Free Software organizations know that some of their volunteers are uncomfortable with Google&apos;s donations and influence.  Just as certain MIT staff hid the funds from Epstein, Free software organizations are hiding the donations from Google.  Censorship is one of the tools they use to achieve this deception.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://danielpocock.com/category/fsfe-misfits&quot;&gt;More evidence about FSFE undermining software freedom&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</content><author><name></name></author><category term="[&quot;debian&quot;, &quot;ubuntu&quot;, &quot;fedora&quot;, &quot;mozilla&quot;, &quot;fsfe&quot;, &quot;fsfe-misfits&quot;, &quot;freertc&quot;, &quot;xmpp&quot;, &quot;sip&quot;, &quot;rms&quot;]" /><summary type="html">A recent blog looks at how to work around censorship in mailing lists, especially the Free Software Foundation. After all, the Free Software Foundation tells us that they use the word Free as in Speech, rather than Free as in Beer.</summary></entry><entry xml:lang="en"><title type="html">Smart home: where to start?</title><link href="https://danielpocock.com/en/smart-home-where-to-start/" rel="alternate" type="text/html" title="Smart home: where to start?" /><published>2018-12-03T09:44:33+01:00</published><updated>2018-12-03T09:44:33+01:00</updated><id>https://danielpocock.com/en/smart-home-where-to-start</id><content type="html" xml:base="https://danielpocock.com/en/smart-home-where-to-start/">&lt;p&gt;My home automation plans have been progressing and I&apos;d like to share some observations I&apos;ve made about planning a project like this, especially for those with larger houses.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;With so many products and technologies, it can be hard to know where to start.  Some things have become straightforward, for example, &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.domoticz.com/&quot;&gt;Domoticz&lt;/a&gt; can soon be installed from a &lt;a href=&quot;https://bugs.debian.org/899058&quot;&gt;package&lt;/a&gt; on some distributions.  Yet this simply leaves people contemplating what to do next.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;h3&gt;The quickstart&lt;/h3&gt;

&lt;p&gt;For a small home, like an apartment, you can simply buy something like the &lt;a href=&quot;https://zigate.fr/&quot;&gt;Zigate&lt;/a&gt;, a single motion and temperature sensor, a couple of smart bulbs and expand from there.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;For a large home, you can also get your feet wet with exactly the same approach in a single room.  Once you are familiar with the products,  use a more structured approach to plan a complete solution for every other space.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;The Debian wiki has started gathering some notes on &lt;a href=&quot;https://wiki.debian.org/HomeAutomation&quot;&gt;things that work easily on GNU/Linux systems like Debian&lt;/a&gt; as well as Fedora and others.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;img width=&quot;400&quot; src=&quot;https://danielpocock.com/assets/zigate.jpg&quot;/&gt;

&lt;h3&gt;Prioritize&lt;/h3&gt;

&lt;p&gt;What is your first goal?  For example, are you excited about having smart lights or are you more concerned with improving your heating system efficiency with zoned logic?&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;Trying to do everything at once may be overwhelming.  Make each of these things into a separate sub-project or milestone.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;h3&gt;Technology choices&lt;/h3&gt;

&lt;p&gt;There are many technology choices:&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;ul&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zigbee&quot;&gt;Zigbee&lt;/a&gt;, Z-Wave or another protocol?  I&apos;m starting out with a preference for Zigbee but may try some Z-Wave devices along the way.&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;E27 or B22 (Bayonet) light bulbs?  People in the UK and former colonies may have B22 light sockets and lamps.  For new deployments, you may want to standardize on E27.  Amongst other things, E27 is used by all the Ikea lamp stands and if you want to be able to move your expensive new smart bulbs between different holders in your house at will, you may want to standardize on E27 for all of them and avoid buying any Bayonet / B22 products in future.&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Wired or wireless?  Whenever you take up floorboards, it is a good idea to add some new wiring.  For example, CAT6 can carry both power and data for a diverse range of devices.&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Battery or mains power?  In an apartment with two rooms and less than five devices, batteries may be fine but in a house, you may end up with more than a hundred sensors, radiator valves, buttons, and switches and you may find yourself changing a battery in one of them every week.  If you have lodgers or tenants and you are not there to change the batteries then this may cause further complications.  Some of the sensors have a socket for an optional power supply, &lt;a href=&quot;https://duckduckgo.com/?q=aa+battery+eliminator&amp;t=ffab&amp;iar=images&amp;iax=images&amp;ia=images&quot;&gt;battery eliminators&lt;/a&gt; may also be an option.&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ul&gt;
 
&lt;h3&gt;Making an inventory&lt;/h3&gt;

&lt;p&gt;Creating a spreadsheet table is extremely useful.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;This helps estimate the correct quantity of sensors, bulbs, radiator valves and switches and it also helps to budget.  Simply print it out, leave it under the Christmas tree and hope Santa will do the rest for you.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;Looking at my own house, these are the things I counted in a first pass:&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;img src=&quot;https://danielpocock.com/assets/home-auto-inventory.png&quot;/&gt;

&lt;p&gt;Don&apos;t forget to include all those unusual spaces like walk-in pantries, a large cupboard under the stairs, cellar, en-suite or enclosed porch.  Each deserves a row in the table.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;h3&gt;Sensors help make good decisions&lt;/h3&gt;

&lt;p&gt;Whatever the aim of the project, sensors are likely to help  obtain useful data about the space and this can help to choose and use other products more effectively.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;Therefore, it is often a good idea to choose and deploy sensors through the home before choosing other products like radiator valves and smart bulbs.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;h3&gt;The smartest place to put those smart sensors&lt;/h3&gt;

&lt;p&gt;When placing motion sensors, it is important to avoid putting them too close to doorways where they might detect motion in adjacent rooms or hallways.  It is also a good idea to avoid putting the sensor too close to any light bulb: if the bulb attracts an insect, it will trigger the motion sensor repeatedly.  Temperature sensors shouldn&apos;t be too close to heaters or potential draughts around doorways and windows.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;There are a range of all-in-one sensors available, some have &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.oomi.com/discover/multisensor/&quot;&gt;up to six features in one device smaller than an apple&lt;/a&gt;.  In some rooms this is a convenient solution but in other rooms, it may be desirable to have separate motion and temperature sensors in different locations.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;Consider the dining and sitting rooms in my own house, illustrated in the floorplan below.  The sitting room is also a potential 6th bedroom or guest room with sofa bed, the downstairs shower room conveniently located across the hall.  The dining room is joined to the sitting room by a sliding double door.  When the sliding door is open, a 360 degree motion sensor in the ceiling of the sitting room may detect motion in the dining room and vice-versa.  It appears that 180 degree motion sensors located at the points &quot;1&quot; and &quot;2&quot; in the floorplan may be a better solution.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;These rooms have wall mounted radiators and fireplaces.  To avoid any of these potential heat sources the temperature sensors should probably be in the middle of the room.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;img width=&quot;600&quot; src=&quot;https://danielpocock.com/assets/sitting-dining-sensors.png&quot;/&gt;

&lt;p&gt;This photo shows the proposed location for the 180 degree motion sensor &quot;2&quot; on the wall above the double door:&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;img src=&quot;https://danielpocock.com/assets/sitting-dining-sensors-photo.jpg&quot;/&gt;

&lt;h3&gt;Summary&lt;/h3&gt;

&lt;p&gt;To summarize, buy a &lt;a href=&quot;https://zigate.fr/&quot;&gt;Zigate&lt;/a&gt; and a small number of products to start experimenting with.  Make an inventory of all the products potentially needed for your home.  Try to mark sensor locations on a floorplan, thinking about the type of sensor (or multiple sensors) you need for each space.&lt;/p&gt;</content><author><name></name></author><category term="[&quot;debian&quot;, &quot;ubuntu&quot;, &quot;fedora&quot;, &quot;mozilla&quot;, &quot;xmpp&quot;]" /><category term="promote" /><summary type="html">My home automation plans have been progressing and I&apos;d like to share some observations I&apos;ve made about planning a project like this, especially for those with larger houses. With so many products and technologies, it can be hard to know where to start. Some things have become straightforward, for example, Domoticz can soon be installed from a package on some distributions. Yet this simply leaves people contemplating what to do next. The quickstart For a small home, like an apartment, you can simply buy something like the Zigate, a single motion and temperature sensor, a couple of smart bulbs and expand from there. For a large home, you can also get your feet wet with exactly the same approach in a single room. Once you are familiar with the products, use a more structured approach to plan a complete solution for every other space. The Debian wiki has started gathering some notes on things that work easily on GNU/Linux systems like Debian as well as Fedora and others. Prioritize What is your first goal? For example, are you excited about having smart lights or are you more concerned with improving your heating system efficiency with zoned logic? Trying to do everything at once may be overwhelming. Make each of these things into a separate sub-project or milestone. Technology choices There are many technology choices: Zigbee, Z-Wave or another protocol? I&apos;m starting out with a preference for Zigbee but may try some Z-Wave devices along the way. E27 or B22 (Bayonet) light bulbs? People in the UK and former colonies may have B22 light sockets and lamps. For new deployments, you may want to standardize on E27. Amongst other things, E27 is used by all the Ikea lamp stands and if you want to be able to move your expensive new smart bulbs between different holders in your house at will, you may want to standardize on E27 for all of them and avoid buying any Bayonet / B22 products in future. Wired or wireless? Whenever you take up floorboards, it is a good idea to add some new wiring. For example, CAT6 can carry both power and data for a diverse range of devices. Battery or mains power? In an apartment with two rooms and less than five devices, batteries may be fine but in a house, you may end up with more than a hundred sensors, radiator valves, buttons, and switches and you may find yourself changing a battery in one of them every week. If you have lodgers or tenants and you are not there to change the batteries then this may cause further complications. Some of the sensors have a socket for an optional power supply, battery eliminators may also be an option. Making an inventory Creating a spreadsheet table is extremely useful. This helps estimate the correct quantity of sensors, bulbs, radiator valves and switches and it also helps to budget. Simply print it out, leave it under the Christmas tree and hope Santa will do the rest for you. Looking at my own house, these are the things I counted in a first pass: Don&apos;t forget to include all those unusual spaces like walk-in pantries, a large cupboard under the stairs, cellar, en-suite or enclosed porch. Each deserves a row in the table. Sensors help make good decisions Whatever the aim of the project, sensors are likely to help obtain useful data about the space and this can help to choose and use other products more effectively. Therefore, it is often a good idea to choose and deploy sensors through the home before choosing other products like radiator valves and smart bulbs. The smartest place to put those smart sensors When placing motion sensors, it is important to avoid putting them too close to doorways where they might detect motion in adjacent rooms or hallways. It is also a good idea to avoid putting the sensor too close to any light bulb: if the bulb attracts an insect, it will trigger the motion sensor repeatedly. Temperature sensors shouldn&apos;t be too close to heaters or potential draughts around doorways and windows. There are a range of all-in-one sensors available, some have up to six features in one device smaller than an apple. In some rooms this is a convenient solution but in other rooms, it may be desirable to have separate motion and temperature sensors in different locations. Consider the dining and sitting rooms in my own house, illustrated in the floorplan below. The sitting room is also a potential 6th bedroom or guest room with sofa bed, the downstairs shower room conveniently located across the hall. The dining room is joined to the sitting room by a sliding double door. When the sliding door is open, a 360 degree motion sensor in the ceiling of the sitting room may detect motion in the dining room and vice-versa. It appears that 180 degree motion sensors located at the points &quot;1&quot; and &quot;2&quot; in the floorplan may be a better solution. These rooms have wall mounted radiators and fireplaces. To avoid any of these potential heat sources the temperature sensors should probably be in the middle of the room. This photo shows the proposed location for the 180 degree motion sensor &quot;2&quot; on the wall above the double door: Summary To summarize, buy a Zigate and a small number of products to start experimenting with. Make an inventory of all the products potentially needed for your home. Try to mark sensor locations on a floorplan, thinking about the type of sensor (or multiple sensors) you need for each space.</summary></entry><entry xml:lang="en"><title type="html">RHL’19 St-Cergue, Switzerland, 25-27 January 2019</title><link href="https://danielpocock.com/en/rhl19-st-cergue-switzerland/" rel="alternate" type="text/html" title="RHL&apos;19 St-Cergue, Switzerland, 25-27 January 2019" /><published>2018-10-31T22:06:34+01:00</published><updated>2018-10-31T22:06:34+01:00</updated><id>https://danielpocock.com/en/rhl19-st-cergue-switzerland</id><content type="html" xml:base="https://danielpocock.com/en/rhl19-st-cergue-switzerland/">&lt;p&gt;&lt;i&gt;(translated from original &lt;a href=&quot;https://lists.debian.org/debian-switzerland/2018/10/msg00001.html&quot;&gt;French version&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;The &lt;a href=&quot;https://hivernal.es&quot;&gt;Rencontres Hivernales du Libre (RHL) (Winter Meeting of Freedom)&lt;/a&gt; takes place 25-27 January 2019 at &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.st-cergue-tourisme.ch/&quot;&gt;St-Cergue&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://www.swisslinux.org&quot;&gt;Swisslinux.org&lt;/a&gt; invites the free software community to come and share workshops, great meals and good times.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;This year, we celebrate the 5th edition with the theme &lt;b&gt;«Exploit»&lt;/b&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;Please think creatively and submit proposals exploring this theme: lectures, workshops, performances and other activities are all welcome.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;RHL&apos;19 is situated directly at the base of some family-friendly ski pistes suitable for beginners and more adventurous skiers.  It is also a great location for alpine walking trails.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;h3&gt;Why, who?&lt;/h3&gt;

&lt;p&gt;RHL&apos;19 brings together the forces of freedom in the &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lake_Geneva&quot;&gt;Leman basin&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Romandy&quot;&gt;Romandy&lt;/a&gt;, neighbouring France and further afield (there is an excellent &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.sbb.ch/en&quot;&gt;train&lt;/a&gt; connection from &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.gva.ch&quot;&gt;Geneva airport&lt;/a&gt;).  Hackers and activists come together to share a relaxing weekend and discover new things with free technology and software.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;If you have a project to present (in 5 minutes, an hour or another format) or activities to share with other geeks, please send an email to &lt;a href=&quot;mailto:rhl-team@lists.swisslinux.org&quot;&gt;rhl-team@lists.swisslinux.org&lt;/a&gt; or submit it through &lt;a href=&quot;https://2019.hivernal.es/talks/new/&quot;&gt;the form&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;If you have any specific venue requirements please contact the team.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;You can find detailed information on the &lt;a href=&quot;https://rencontres.hivernal.es/&quot;&gt;event web site&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;Please ask if you need help finding accommodation or any other advice planning your trip to the region.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;img src=&quot;https://danielpocock.com/assets/jura-snow.jpg&quot;/&gt;</content><author><name></name></author><category term="[&quot;debian&quot;, &quot;drupal&quot;, &quot;fedora&quot;, &quot;freertc&quot;, &quot;xmpp&quot;, &quot;mozilla&quot;, &quot;postgresql&quot;, &quot;sip&quot;, &quot;ubuntu&quot;, &quot;r-project&quot;]" /><category term="promote" /><summary type="html">(translated from original French version) The Rencontres Hivernales du Libre (RHL) (Winter Meeting of Freedom) takes place 25-27 January 2019 at St-Cergue. Swisslinux.org invites the free software community to come and share workshops, great meals and good times. This year, we celebrate the 5th edition with the theme «Exploit». Please think creatively and submit proposals exploring this theme: lectures, workshops, performances and other activities are all welcome. RHL&apos;19 is situated directly at the base of some family-friendly ski pistes suitable for beginners and more adventurous skiers. It is also a great location for alpine walking trails. Why, who? RHL&apos;19 brings together the forces of freedom in the Leman basin, Romandy, neighbouring France and further afield (there is an excellent train connection from Geneva airport). Hackers and activists come together to share a relaxing weekend and discover new things with free technology and software. If you have a project to present (in 5 minutes, an hour or another format) or activities to share with other geeks, please send an email to rhl-team@lists.swisslinux.org or submit it through the form. If you have any specific venue requirements please contact the team. You can find detailed information on the event web site. Please ask if you need help finding accommodation or any other advice planning your trip to the region.</summary></entry><entry xml:lang="en"><title type="html">FOSDEM 2019 Real-Time Communications Call for Participation</title><link href="https://danielpocock.com/en/fosdem-2019-rtc-cfp/" rel="alternate" type="text/html" title="FOSDEM 2019 Real-Time Communications Call for Participation" /><published>2018-10-29T20:57:38+01:00</published><updated>2018-10-29T20:57:38+01:00</updated><id>https://danielpocock.com/en/fosdem-2019-rtc-cfp</id><content type="html" xml:base="https://danielpocock.com/en/fosdem-2019-rtc-cfp/">&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://fosdem.org&quot;&gt;FOSDEM&lt;/a&gt; is one of the world&apos;s premier meetings of free software developers, with over five thousand people attending each year.  FOSDEM 2019 takes place 2-3 February 2019 in Brussels, Belgium.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;This email contains information about:&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;ul&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Real-Time communications dev-room and lounge,&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;speaking opportunities,&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;volunteering in the dev-room and lounge,&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;social events (the legendary FOSDEM Beer Night and Saturday night dinners provide endless networking opportunities),&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;the Planet aggregation sites for RTC blogs&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ul&gt;

&lt;h2&gt;Call for participation - Real Time Communications (RTC)&lt;/h2&gt;

&lt;p&gt;The Real-Time Communications dev-room and Real-Time lounge is about all things involving real-time communication, including: XMPP, SIP, WebRTC, telephony, mobile VoIP, codecs, peer-to-peer, privacy and encryption.  The dev-room is a successor to the previous XMPP and telephony dev-rooms.  We are looking for speakers for the dev-room and volunteers and participants for the tables in the Real-Time lounge.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;The dev-room is only on Sunday, 3rd of February 2019.  The lounge will be present for both days.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;To discuss the dev-room and lounge, please join the &lt;a href=&quot;http://lists.freertc.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss&quot;&gt;Free RTC mailing list&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;To be kept aware of major developments in Free RTC, without being on the discussion list, please join the &lt;a href=&quot;http://lists.freertc.org/mailman/listinfo/announce&quot;&gt;Free-RTC Announce list&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;h3&gt;Speaking opportunities&lt;/h3&gt;

&lt;p&gt;Note: if you used FOSDEM Pentabarf before, please use the same account/username&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;Real-Time Communications dev-room: deadline 23:59 UTC on 2nd of December.  Please use the Pentabarf system to submit a talk proposal for the dev-room.  On the &quot;General&quot; tab, please look for the &quot;Track&quot; option and choose &quot;Real Time Communications devroom&quot;.  &lt;a href=&quot;https://penta.fosdem.org/submission/FOSDEM19/&quot;&gt;Link to talk submission&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;Other dev-rooms and lightning talks: some speakers may find their topic is in the scope of more than one dev-room.  It is encouraged to apply to more than one dev-room and also consider proposing a lightning talk, but please be kind enough to tell us if you do this by filling out the notes in the form.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;You can find the full list of dev-rooms &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.fosdem.org/2019/schedule/tracks/&quot;&gt;on this page&lt;/a&gt; and apply for a lightning talk at &lt;a href=&quot;https://fosdem.org/submit&quot;&gt;https://fosdem.org/submit&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;Main track: the deadline for main track presentations is 23:59 UTC 3 November.  Leading developers in the Real-Time Communications field are encouraged to consider &lt;a href=&quot;https://fosdem.org/submit&quot;&gt;submitting a presentation to the main track&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;h3&gt;First-time speaking?&lt;/h3&gt;

&lt;p&gt;FOSDEM dev-rooms are a welcoming environment for people who have never given a talk before.  Please feel free to contact the dev-room administrators personally if you would like to ask any questions about it.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;h3&gt;Submission guidelines&lt;/h3&gt;

&lt;p&gt;The Pentabarf system will ask for many of the essential details.  Please remember to re-use your account from previous years if you have one.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;In the &quot;Submission notes&quot;, please tell us about:&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;ul&gt;
&lt;li&gt;the purpose of your talk&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;any other talk applications (dev-rooms, lightning talks, main track)&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;availability constraints and special needs&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ul&gt;

&lt;p&gt;You can use HTML and links in your bio, abstract and description.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;If you maintain a blog, please consider providing us with the URL of a feed with posts tagged for your RTC-related work.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;We will be looking for relevance to the conference and dev-room themes, presentations aimed at developers of free and open source software about RTC-related topics.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;Please feel free to suggest a duration between 20 minutes and 55 minutes but note that the final decision on talk durations will be made by the dev-room administrators based on the received proposals.  As the two previous dev-rooms have been combined into one, we may decide to give shorter slots than in previous years so that more speakers can participate.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;Please note FOSDEM aims to record and live-stream all talks.  The CC-BY license is used.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;h2&gt;Volunteers needed&lt;/h2&gt;

&lt;p&gt;To make the dev-room and lounge run successfully, we are looking for volunteers:&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;ul&gt;
&lt;li&gt;FOSDEM provides video recording equipment and live streaming, volunteers are needed to assist in this&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;organizing one or more restaurant bookings (dependending upon number of participants) for the evening of Saturday, 2 February&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;participation in the Real-Time lounge&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;helping attract sponsorship funds for the dev-room to pay for the Saturday night dinner and any other expenses&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;circulating this Call for Participation (this text) to other mailing lists&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ul&gt;

&lt;h2&gt;Social events and dinners&lt;/h2&gt;

&lt;p&gt;The traditional FOSDEM beer night occurs on Friday, 1st of February.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;On Saturday night, there are usually dinners associated with each of the dev-rooms.  Most restaurants in Brussels are not so large so these dinners have space constraints and reservations are essential.  Please subscribe to the &lt;a href=&quot;http://lists.freertc.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss&quot;&gt;Free-RTC mailing list&lt;/a&gt; for further details about the Saturday night dinner options and how you can register for a seat.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;h2&gt;Spread the word and discuss&lt;/h2&gt;

&lt;p&gt;If you know of any mailing lists where this CfP would be relevant, please forward this email. If this dev-room excites you, please blog or microblog about it, especially if you are submitting a talk.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;If you regularly blog about RTC topics, please send details about your blog to the planet site administrators:&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;table&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;&lt;th&gt;&lt;/th&gt;&lt;th&gt;Planet site&lt;/th&gt;&lt;th&gt;Admin contact&lt;/th&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;&lt;th&gt;All projects&lt;/th&gt;&lt;td&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://planet.freertc.org&quot;&gt;Free-RTC Planet (http://planet.freertc.org)&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;mailto:planet@freertc.org&quot;&gt;contact planet@freertc.org&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;&lt;th&gt;XMPP&lt;/th&gt;&lt;td&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://planet.jabber.org&quot;&gt;Planet Jabber (http://planet.jabber.org)&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;mailto:ralphm@ik.nu&quot;&gt;contact ralphm@ik.nu&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;&lt;th&gt;SIP&lt;/th&gt;&lt;td&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://planet.sip5060.net&quot;&gt;Planet SIP (http://planet.sip5060.net)&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;mailto:planet@sip5060.net&quot;&gt;contact planet@sip5060.net&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;&lt;th&gt;SIP (Español)&lt;/th&gt;&lt;td&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://planet.sip5060.net/es/&quot;&gt;Planet SIP-es (http://planet.sip5060.net/es/)&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;mailto:planet@sip5060.net&quot;&gt;contact planet@sip5060.net&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;/table&gt;

&lt;p&gt;Please also link to the Planet sites from your own blog or web site as this helps everybody in the free real-time communications community.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;h2&gt;Contact&lt;/h2&gt;

&lt;p&gt;For any private queries, contact us directly using the address &lt;a href=&quot;mailto:fosdem-rtc-admin@freertc.org&quot;&gt;fosdem-rtc-admin@freertc.org&lt;/a&gt; and for any other queries please ask on the &lt;a href=&quot;http://lists.freertc.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss&quot;&gt;Free-RTC mailing list&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;The dev-room administration team:&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;ul&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://code.saghul.net/&quot;&gt;Saúl Ibarra Corretgé&lt;/a&gt; (&lt;a href=&quot;mailto:s@saghul.net&quot;&gt;email&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://ralphm.net/blog/&quot;&gt;Ralph Meijer&lt;/a&gt; (&lt;a href=&quot;mailto:ralphm@ik.nu&quot;&gt;email&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.miconda.eu/&quot;&gt;Daniel-Constantin Mierla&lt;/a&gt; (&lt;a href=&quot;mailto:miconda@gmail.com&quot;&gt;email&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://danielpocock.com&quot;&gt;Daniel Pocock&lt;/a&gt; (&lt;a href=&quot;mailto:daniel@pocock.pro&quot;&gt;email&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://www.goodbytes.nl&quot;&gt;Guus der Kinderen&lt;/a&gt; (&lt;a href=&quot;mailto:guus.der.kinderen@gmail.com&quot;&gt;email&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ul&gt;</content><author><name></name></author><category term="[&quot;debian&quot;, &quot;ubuntu&quot;, &quot;fedora&quot;, &quot;freertc&quot;, &quot;sip&quot;, &quot;xmpp&quot;, &quot;im&quot;, &quot;mozilla&quot;]" /><category term="promote" /><summary type="html">FOSDEM is one of the world&apos;s premier meetings of free software developers, with over five thousand people attending each year. FOSDEM 2019 takes place 2-3 February 2019 in Brussels, Belgium. This email contains information about: Real-Time communications dev-room and lounge, speaking opportunities, volunteering in the dev-room and lounge, social events (the legendary FOSDEM Beer Night and Saturday night dinners provide endless networking opportunities), the Planet aggregation sites for RTC blogs Call for participation - Real Time Communications (RTC) The Real-Time Communications dev-room and Real-Time lounge is about all things involving real-time communication, including: XMPP, SIP, WebRTC, telephony, mobile VoIP, codecs, peer-to-peer, privacy and encryption. The dev-room is a successor to the previous XMPP and telephony dev-rooms. We are looking for speakers for the dev-room and volunteers and participants for the tables in the Real-Time lounge. The dev-room is only on Sunday, 3rd of February 2019. The lounge will be present for both days. To discuss the dev-room and lounge, please join the Free RTC mailing list. To be kept aware of major developments in Free RTC, without being on the discussion list, please join the Free-RTC Announce list. Speaking opportunities Note: if you used FOSDEM Pentabarf before, please use the same account/username Real-Time Communications dev-room: deadline 23:59 UTC on 2nd of December. Please use the Pentabarf system to submit a talk proposal for the dev-room. On the &quot;General&quot; tab, please look for the &quot;Track&quot; option and choose &quot;Real Time Communications devroom&quot;. Link to talk submission. Other dev-rooms and lightning talks: some speakers may find their topic is in the scope of more than one dev-room. It is encouraged to apply to more than one dev-room and also consider proposing a lightning talk, but please be kind enough to tell us if you do this by filling out the notes in the form. You can find the full list of dev-rooms on this page and apply for a lightning talk at https://fosdem.org/submit Main track: the deadline for main track presentations is 23:59 UTC 3 November. Leading developers in the Real-Time Communications field are encouraged to consider submitting a presentation to the main track. First-time speaking? FOSDEM dev-rooms are a welcoming environment for people who have never given a talk before. Please feel free to contact the dev-room administrators personally if you would like to ask any questions about it. Submission guidelines The Pentabarf system will ask for many of the essential details. Please remember to re-use your account from previous years if you have one. In the &quot;Submission notes&quot;, please tell us about: the purpose of your talk any other talk applications (dev-rooms, lightning talks, main track) availability constraints and special needs You can use HTML and links in your bio, abstract and description. If you maintain a blog, please consider providing us with the URL of a feed with posts tagged for your RTC-related work. We will be looking for relevance to the conference and dev-room themes, presentations aimed at developers of free and open source software about RTC-related topics. Please feel free to suggest a duration between 20 minutes and 55 minutes but note that the final decision on talk durations will be made by the dev-room administrators based on the received proposals. As the two previous dev-rooms have been combined into one, we may decide to give shorter slots than in previous years so that more speakers can participate. Please note FOSDEM aims to record and live-stream all talks. The CC-BY license is used. Volunteers needed To make the dev-room and lounge run successfully, we are looking for volunteers: FOSDEM provides video recording equipment and live streaming, volunteers are needed to assist in this organizing one or more restaurant bookings (dependending upon number of participants) for the evening of Saturday, 2 February participation in the Real-Time lounge helping attract sponsorship funds for the dev-room to pay for the Saturday night dinner and any other expenses circulating this Call for Participation (this text) to other mailing lists Social events and dinners The traditional FOSDEM beer night occurs on Friday, 1st of February. On Saturday night, there are usually dinners associated with each of the dev-rooms. Most restaurants in Brussels are not so large so these dinners have space constraints and reservations are essential. Please subscribe to the Free-RTC mailing list for further details about the Saturday night dinner options and how you can register for a seat. Spread the word and discuss If you know of any mailing lists where this CfP would be relevant, please forward this email. If this dev-room excites you, please blog or microblog about it, especially if you are submitting a talk. If you regularly blog about RTC topics, please send details about your blog to the planet site administrators: Planet siteAdmin contact All projectsFree-RTC Planet (http://planet.freertc.org)contact planet@freertc.org XMPPPlanet Jabber (http://planet.jabber.org)contact ralphm@ik.nu SIPPlanet SIP (http://planet.sip5060.net)contact planet@sip5060.net SIP (Español)Planet SIP-es (http://planet.sip5060.net/es/)contact planet@sip5060.net Please also link to the Planet sites from your own blog or web site as this helps everybody in the free real-time communications community. Contact For any private queries, contact us directly using the address fosdem-rtc-admin@freertc.org and for any other queries please ask on the Free-RTC mailing list. The dev-room administration team: Saúl Ibarra Corretgé (email) Ralph Meijer (email) Daniel-Constantin Mierla (email) Daniel Pocock (email) Guus der Kinderen (email)</summary></entry><entry xml:lang="en"><title type="html">Imagine the world’s biggest Kanban / Scrumboard</title><link href="https://danielpocock.com/en/worlds-largest-kanban-board-with-free-software-communities/" rel="alternate" type="text/html" title="Imagine the world&apos;s biggest Kanban / Scrumboard" /><published>2018-01-30T19:52:55+01:00</published><updated>2018-01-30T19:52:55+01:00</updated><id>https://danielpocock.com/en/worlds-largest-kanban-board-with-free-software-communities</id><content type="html" xml:base="https://danielpocock.com/en/worlds-largest-kanban-board-with-free-software-communities/">&lt;p&gt;Imagine a &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kanban_board&quot;&gt;Kanban board&lt;/a&gt; that could aggregate issues from multiple backends, including your CalDAV task list, Bugzilla systems (Fedora, Mozilla, GNOME communities), Github issue lists and the &lt;a href=&quot;https://bugs.debian.org&quot;&gt;Debian Bug Tracking System&lt;/a&gt;, visualize them together and coordinate your upstream fixes and packaging fixes in a single sprint.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;It is not so farfetched - all of those systems already provide read access &lt;a href=&quot;https://danielpocock.com/github-issues-as-an-icalendar-feed&quot;&gt;using iCalendar URLs as described in my earlier blog&lt;/a&gt;.  There are REST APIs to manipulate most of them too.  Why not write a front end to poll them and merge the content into a Kanban board view?&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;We&apos;ve added this as a &lt;a href=&quot;https://wiki.debian.org/SummerOfCode2018/Projects&quot;&gt;potential GSoC project&lt;/a&gt; using Python and PyQt.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;If you&apos;d like to see this or any of the other proposed projects go ahead, you don&apos;t need to be a Debian Developer to suggest ideas, refer a student or be a co-mentor.  Many of our projects have relevance in multiple communities.  Feel free to get in touch with us through the &lt;a href=&quot;https://lists.debian.org/debian-outreach&quot;&gt;debian-outreach mailing list&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;img src=&quot;https://danielpocock.com/assets/biggest_kanban.jpg&quot;/&gt;</content><author><name></name></author><category term="[&quot;debian&quot;, &quot;fsfe&quot;, &quot;ubuntu&quot;, &quot;fedora&quot;, &quot;freertc&quot;, &quot;xmpp&quot;, &quot;mozilla&quot;, &quot;gsoc&quot;, &quot;outreachy&quot;]" /><category term="promote" /><summary type="html">Imagine a Kanban board that could aggregate issues from multiple backends, including your CalDAV task list, Bugzilla systems (Fedora, Mozilla, GNOME communities), Github issue lists and the Debian Bug Tracking System, visualize them together and coordinate your upstream fixes and packaging fixes in a single sprint. It is not so farfetched - all of those systems already provide read access using iCalendar URLs as described in my earlier blog. There are REST APIs to manipulate most of them too. Why not write a front end to poll them and merge the content into a Kanban board view? We&apos;ve added this as a potential GSoC project using Python and PyQt. If you&apos;d like to see this or any of the other proposed projects go ahead, you don&apos;t need to be a Debian Developer to suggest ideas, refer a student or be a co-mentor. Many of our projects have relevance in multiple communities. Feel free to get in touch with us through the debian-outreach mailing list.</summary></entry><entry xml:lang="en"><title type="html">Linking hackerspaces with OpenDHT and Ring</title><link href="https://danielpocock.com/en/linking-hackerspaces-with-opendht-and-ring/" rel="alternate" type="text/html" title="Linking hackerspaces with OpenDHT and Ring" /><published>2017-11-15T20:57:06+01:00</published><updated>2017-11-15T20:57:06+01:00</updated><id>https://danielpocock.com/en/linking-hackerspaces-with-opendht-and-ring</id><content type="html" xml:base="https://danielpocock.com/en/linking-hackerspaces-with-opendht-and-ring/">&lt;p&gt;Francois and Nemen at the &lt;a href=&quot;https://fixme.ch&quot;&gt;FIXME hackerspace (Lausanne)&lt;/a&gt; weekly meeting are experimenting with the &lt;a href=&quot;https://ring.cx&quot;&gt;Ring peer-to-peer softphone&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;img src=&quot;https://danielpocock.com/assets/fixme_ring.jpg&quot;/&gt;

&lt;p&gt;Francois is using Raspberry Pi and PiCam to develop a &lt;a href=&quot;https://fixme.ch/wiki/Telepresence&quot;&gt;telepresence network for hackerspaces&lt;/a&gt; (the big screens in the middle of the photo).&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;The original version of the telepresence solution is using &lt;a href=&quot;https://danielpocock.com/tags/webrtc&quot;&gt;WebRTC&lt;/a&gt;.  Ring&apos;s &lt;a href=&quot;https://github.com/savoirfairelinux/opendht/wiki&quot;&gt;OpenDHT&lt;/a&gt; potentially offers more privacy and resilience.&lt;/p&gt;</content><author><name></name></author><category term="[&quot;debian&quot;, &quot;ubuntu&quot;, &quot;fsfe&quot;, &quot;fedora&quot;, &quot;mozilla&quot;, &quot;freertc&quot;, &quot;sip&quot;, &quot;xmpp&quot;, &quot;im&quot;]" /><category term="promote" /><summary type="html">Francois and Nemen at the FIXME hackerspace (Lausanne) weekly meeting are experimenting with the Ring peer-to-peer softphone: Francois is using Raspberry Pi and PiCam to develop a telepresence network for hackerspaces (the big screens in the middle of the photo). The original version of the telepresence solution is using WebRTC. Ring&apos;s OpenDHT potentially offers more privacy and resilience.</summary></entry><entry xml:lang="en"><title type="html">FOSDEM 2018 Real-Time Communications Call for Participation</title><link href="https://danielpocock.com/en/fosdem-2018-rtc-cfp/" rel="alternate" type="text/html" title="FOSDEM 2018 Real-Time Communications Call for Participation" /><published>2017-10-19T10:33:31+02:00</published><updated>2017-10-19T10:33:31+02:00</updated><id>https://danielpocock.com/en/fosdem-2018-rtc-cfp</id><content type="html" xml:base="https://danielpocock.com/en/fosdem-2018-rtc-cfp/">&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://fosdem.org&quot;&gt;FOSDEM&lt;/a&gt; is one of the world&apos;s premier meetings of free software developers, with over five thousand people attending each year.  FOSDEM 2018 takes place 3-4 February 2018 in Brussels, Belgium.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;This email contains information about:&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;ul&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Real-Time communications dev-room and lounge,&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;speaking opportunities,&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;volunteering in the dev-room and lounge,&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;related events around FOSDEM, including the XMPP summit,&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;social events (the legendary FOSDEM Beer Night and Saturday night dinners provide endless networking opportunities),&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;the Planet aggregation sites for RTC blogs&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ul&gt;

&lt;h2&gt;Call for participation - Real Time Communications (RTC)&lt;/h2&gt;

&lt;p&gt;The Real-Time dev-room and Real-Time lounge is about all things involving real-time communication, including: XMPP, SIP, WebRTC, telephony, mobile VoIP, codecs, peer-to-peer, privacy and encryption.  The dev-room is a successor to the previous XMPP and telephony dev-rooms.  We are looking for speakers for the dev-room and volunteers and participants for the tables in the Real-Time lounge.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;The dev-room is only on Sunday, 4 February 2018.  The lounge will be present for both days.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;To discuss the dev-room and lounge, please join the FSFE-sponsored &lt;a href=&quot;https://lists.fsfe.org/mailman/listinfo/free-rtc&quot;&gt;Free RTC mailing list&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;To be kept aware of major developments in Free RTC, without being on the discussion list, please join the &lt;a href=&quot;http://lists.freertc.org/mailman/listinfo/announce&quot;&gt;Free-RTC Announce list&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;h3&gt;Speaking opportunities&lt;/h3&gt;

&lt;p&gt;Note: if you used FOSDEM Pentabarf before, please use the same account/username&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;Real-Time Communications dev-room: deadline 23:59 UTC on 30 November.  Please use the Pentabarf system to submit a talk proposal for the dev-room.  On the &quot;General&quot; tab, please look for the &quot;Track&quot; option and choose &quot;Real Time Communications devroom&quot;.  &lt;a href=&quot;https://penta.fosdem.org/submission/FOSDEM18/&quot;&gt;Link to talk submission&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt; 

&lt;p&gt;Other dev-rooms and lightning talks: some speakers may find their topic is in the scope of more than one dev-room.  It is encouraged to apply to more than one dev-room and also consider proposing a lightning talk, but please be kind enough to tell us if you do this by filling out the notes in the form.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;You can find the full list of dev-rooms &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.fosdem.org/2018/schedule/tracks/&quot;&gt;on this page&lt;/a&gt; and apply for a lightning talk at https://fosdem.org/submit&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;Main track: the deadline for main track presentations is 23:59 UTC 3 November.  Leading developers in the Real-Time Communications field are encouraged to consider &lt;a href=&quot;https://fosdem.org/submit&quot;&gt;submitting a presentation to the main track&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;h3&gt;First-time speaking?&lt;/h3&gt;

&lt;p&gt;FOSDEM dev-rooms are a welcoming environment for people who have never given a talk before.  Please feel free to contact the dev-room administrators personally if you would like to ask any questions about it.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;h3&gt;Submission guidelines&lt;/h3&gt;

&lt;p&gt;The Pentabarf system will ask for many of the essential details.  Please remember to re-use your account from previous years if you have one.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;In the &quot;Submission notes&quot;, please tell us about:&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;ul&gt;
&lt;li&gt;the purpose of your talk&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;any other talk applications (dev-rooms, lightning talks, main track)&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;availability constraints and special needs&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ul&gt;

&lt;p&gt;You can use HTML and links in your bio, abstract and description.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;If you maintain a blog, please consider providing us with the URL of a feed with posts tagged for your RTC-related work.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;We will be looking for relevance to the conference and dev-room themes, presentations aimed at developers of free and open source software about RTC-related topics.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;Please feel free to suggest a duration between 20 minutes and 55 minutes but note that the final decision on talk durations will be made by the dev-room administrators based on the received proposals.  As the two previous dev-rooms have been combined into one, we may decide to give shorter slots than in previous years so that more speakers can participate.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;Please note FOSDEM aims to record and live-stream all talks.  The CC-BY license is used.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;h2&gt;Volunteers needed&lt;/h2&gt;

&lt;p&gt;To make the dev-room and lounge run successfully, we are looking for volunteers:&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;ul&gt;
&lt;li&gt;FOSDEM provides video recording equipment and live streaming, volunteers are needed to assist in this&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;organizing one or more restaurant bookings (dependending upon number of participants) for the evening of Saturday, 4 February&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;participation in the Real-Time lounge&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;helping attract sponsorship funds for the dev-room to pay for the Saturday night dinner and any other expenses&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;circulating this Call for Participation (&lt;a href=&quot;https://lists.fosdem.org/pipermail/fosdem/2017-October/002636.html&quot;&gt;text version&lt;/a&gt;) to other mailing lists&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ul&gt;

&lt;h2&gt;Related events - XMPP and RTC summits&lt;/h2&gt;

&lt;p&gt;The XMPP Standards Foundation (XSF) has traditionally held a summit in the days before FOSDEM.  There is discussion about a similar summit taking place on 2 February 2018.  &lt;a href=&quot;http://wiki.xmpp.org/web/Summit_22&quot;&gt;XMPP Summit web site&lt;/a&gt; - please join the &lt;a href=&quot;http://mail.jabber.org/mailman/listinfo/summit&quot;&gt;mailing list&lt;/a&gt; for details.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;h2&gt;Social events and dinners&lt;/h2&gt;

&lt;p&gt;The traditional FOSDEM beer night occurs on Friday, 2 February.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;On Saturday night, there are usually dinners associated with each of the dev-rooms.  Most restaurants in Brussels are not so large so these dinners have space constraints and reservations are essential.  Please subscribe to the &lt;a href=&quot;https://lists.fsfe.org/mailman/listinfo/free-rtc&quot;&gt;Free-RTC mailing list&lt;/a&gt; for further details about the Saturday night dinner options and how you can register for a seat.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;h2&gt;Spread the word and discuss&lt;/h2&gt;

&lt;p&gt;If you know of any mailing lists where this CfP would be relevant, please forward this email (&lt;a href=&quot;https://lists.fosdem.org/pipermail/fosdem/2016-October/002481.html&quot;&gt;text version&lt;/a&gt;). If this dev-room excites you, please blog or microblog about it, especially if you are submitting a talk.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;If you regularly blog about RTC topics, please send details about your blog to the planet site administrators:&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;table&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;&lt;th&gt;&lt;/th&gt;&lt;th&gt;Planet site&lt;/th&gt;&lt;th&gt;Admin contact&lt;/th&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;&lt;th&gt;All projects&lt;/th&gt;&lt;td&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://planet.freertc.org&quot;&gt;Free-RTC Planet (http://planet.freertc.org)&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;mailto:planet@freertc.org&quot;&gt;contact planet@freertc.org&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;&lt;th&gt;XMPP&lt;/th&gt;&lt;td&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://planet.jabber.org&quot;&gt;Planet Jabber (http://planet.jabber.org)&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;mailto:ralphm@ik.nu&quot;&gt;contact ralphm@ik.nu&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;&lt;th&gt;SIP&lt;/th&gt;&lt;td&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://planet.sip5060.net&quot;&gt;Planet SIP (http://planet.sip5060.net)&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;mailto:planet@sip5060.net&quot;&gt;contact planet@sip5060.net&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;&lt;th&gt;SIP (Español)&lt;/th&gt;&lt;td&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://planet.sip5060.net/es/&quot;&gt;Planet SIP-es (http://planet.sip5060.net/es/)&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;mailto:planet@sip5060.net&quot;&gt;contact planet@sip5060.net&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;/table&gt;

&lt;p&gt;Please also link to the Planet sites from your own blog or web site as this helps everybody in the free real-time communications community.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;h2&gt;Contact&lt;/h2&gt;

&lt;p&gt;For any private queries, contact us directly using the address &lt;a href=&quot;mailto:fosdem-rtc-admin@freertc.org&quot;&gt;fosdem-rtc-admin@freertc.org&lt;/a&gt; and for any other queries please ask on the &lt;a href=&quot;https://lists.fsfe.org/mailman/listinfo/free-rtc&quot;&gt;Free-RTC mailing list&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;The dev-room administration team:&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;ul&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://code.saghul.net/&quot;&gt;Saúl Ibarra Corretgé&lt;/a&gt; (&lt;a href=&quot;mailto:saghul@gmail.com&quot;&gt;email&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://iain.learmonth.me/&quot;&gt;Iain R. Learmonth&lt;/a&gt; (&lt;a href=&quot;mailto:irl@debian.org&quot;&gt;email&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://ralphm.net/blog/&quot;&gt;Ralph Meijer&lt;/a&gt; (&lt;a href=&quot;mailto:ralphm@ik.nu&quot;&gt;email&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.miconda.eu/&quot;&gt;Daniel-Constantin Mierla&lt;/a&gt; (&lt;a href=&quot;mailto:miconda@gmail.com&quot;&gt;email&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://danielpocock.com&quot;&gt;Daniel Pocock&lt;/a&gt; (&lt;a href=&quot;mailto:daniel@pocock.pro&quot;&gt;email&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ul&gt;</content><author><name></name></author><category term="[&quot;debian&quot;, &quot;ubuntu&quot;, &quot;fedora&quot;, &quot;freertc&quot;, &quot;sip&quot;, &quot;xmpp&quot;, &quot;im&quot;, &quot;fsfe&quot;, &quot;mozilla&quot;]" /><category term="promote" /><summary type="html">FOSDEM is one of the world&apos;s premier meetings of free software developers, with over five thousand people attending each year. FOSDEM 2018 takes place 3-4 February 2018 in Brussels, Belgium. This email contains information about: Real-Time communications dev-room and lounge, speaking opportunities, volunteering in the dev-room and lounge, related events around FOSDEM, including the XMPP summit, social events (the legendary FOSDEM Beer Night and Saturday night dinners provide endless networking opportunities), the Planet aggregation sites for RTC blogs Call for participation - Real Time Communications (RTC) The Real-Time dev-room and Real-Time lounge is about all things involving real-time communication, including: XMPP, SIP, WebRTC, telephony, mobile VoIP, codecs, peer-to-peer, privacy and encryption. The dev-room is a successor to the previous XMPP and telephony dev-rooms. We are looking for speakers for the dev-room and volunteers and participants for the tables in the Real-Time lounge. The dev-room is only on Sunday, 4 February 2018. The lounge will be present for both days. To discuss the dev-room and lounge, please join the FSFE-sponsored Free RTC mailing list. To be kept aware of major developments in Free RTC, without being on the discussion list, please join the Free-RTC Announce list. Speaking opportunities Note: if you used FOSDEM Pentabarf before, please use the same account/username Real-Time Communications dev-room: deadline 23:59 UTC on 30 November. Please use the Pentabarf system to submit a talk proposal for the dev-room. On the &quot;General&quot; tab, please look for the &quot;Track&quot; option and choose &quot;Real Time Communications devroom&quot;. Link to talk submission. Other dev-rooms and lightning talks: some speakers may find their topic is in the scope of more than one dev-room. It is encouraged to apply to more than one dev-room and also consider proposing a lightning talk, but please be kind enough to tell us if you do this by filling out the notes in the form. You can find the full list of dev-rooms on this page and apply for a lightning talk at https://fosdem.org/submit Main track: the deadline for main track presentations is 23:59 UTC 3 November. Leading developers in the Real-Time Communications field are encouraged to consider submitting a presentation to the main track. First-time speaking? FOSDEM dev-rooms are a welcoming environment for people who have never given a talk before. Please feel free to contact the dev-room administrators personally if you would like to ask any questions about it. Submission guidelines The Pentabarf system will ask for many of the essential details. Please remember to re-use your account from previous years if you have one. In the &quot;Submission notes&quot;, please tell us about: the purpose of your talk any other talk applications (dev-rooms, lightning talks, main track) availability constraints and special needs You can use HTML and links in your bio, abstract and description. If you maintain a blog, please consider providing us with the URL of a feed with posts tagged for your RTC-related work. We will be looking for relevance to the conference and dev-room themes, presentations aimed at developers of free and open source software about RTC-related topics. Please feel free to suggest a duration between 20 minutes and 55 minutes but note that the final decision on talk durations will be made by the dev-room administrators based on the received proposals. As the two previous dev-rooms have been combined into one, we may decide to give shorter slots than in previous years so that more speakers can participate. Please note FOSDEM aims to record and live-stream all talks. The CC-BY license is used. Volunteers needed To make the dev-room and lounge run successfully, we are looking for volunteers: FOSDEM provides video recording equipment and live streaming, volunteers are needed to assist in this organizing one or more restaurant bookings (dependending upon number of participants) for the evening of Saturday, 4 February participation in the Real-Time lounge helping attract sponsorship funds for the dev-room to pay for the Saturday night dinner and any other expenses circulating this Call for Participation (text version) to other mailing lists Related events - XMPP and RTC summits The XMPP Standards Foundation (XSF) has traditionally held a summit in the days before FOSDEM. There is discussion about a similar summit taking place on 2 February 2018. XMPP Summit web site - please join the mailing list for details. Social events and dinners The traditional FOSDEM beer night occurs on Friday, 2 February. On Saturday night, there are usually dinners associated with each of the dev-rooms. Most restaurants in Brussels are not so large so these dinners have space constraints and reservations are essential. Please subscribe to the Free-RTC mailing list for further details about the Saturday night dinner options and how you can register for a seat. Spread the word and discuss If you know of any mailing lists where this CfP would be relevant, please forward this email (text version). If this dev-room excites you, please blog or microblog about it, especially if you are submitting a talk. If you regularly blog about RTC topics, please send details about your blog to the planet site administrators: Planet siteAdmin contact All projectsFree-RTC Planet (http://planet.freertc.org)contact planet@freertc.org XMPPPlanet Jabber (http://planet.jabber.org)contact ralphm@ik.nu SIPPlanet SIP (http://planet.sip5060.net)contact planet@sip5060.net SIP (Español)Planet SIP-es (http://planet.sip5060.net/es/)contact planet@sip5060.net Please also link to the Planet sites from your own blog or web site as this helps everybody in the free real-time communications community. Contact For any private queries, contact us directly using the address fosdem-rtc-admin@freertc.org and for any other queries please ask on the Free-RTC mailing list. The dev-room administration team: Saúl Ibarra Corretgé (email) Iain R. Learmonth (email) Ralph Meijer (email) Daniel-Constantin Mierla (email) Daniel Pocock (email)</summary></entry></feed>