Re: OsmoDevCon 2022 ?

[Harald Welte]

Dear fellow developers,

given the rather unfortunate development of the pandemic both globally
with Omicron, as well as particularly locally in Berlin, I decided to
further postpone an on-site OsmoDevCon.  At least the late April / early May
time frame seemed unrealistic.

Shifting the event further towards or into summer seems more realistic from
a pandemic point of view, as experience over the past years has shown much
lower infection rates then.  However, there are of course holiday plans, etc.
that might more likely conflict with OsmoDevCon at such a time.

I have started a poll at https://dudle.inf.tu-dresden.de/TrmQAhYOWA/
in order to understand whether there's a preference for a specific month,
and I'd like to invite everyone to state their preference in this poll
(can also be done anonymously).

The venue and format can of course also still be discussed.  I would think
that having everyone in the same hotel would reduce the amount of contacts,
as not every participant meets different hotel staff, has to commute through
a city spending time with hundreds of other different people every day in
public transport or the like.  This might of course increase cost, but I'm sure
we can find a solution for that.

One of the random thoughts I had was to use https://www.linuxhotel.de/ -
a hotel + conference venue specifically dedicated to FOSS with plenty of
outdoor space.  However, it's at least a 35min cab ride from the closest
airports (DUS, DTM) and about an hour from CGN.  For people arriving
long distance by car or train there's probably little difference
compared to Berlin.

Regards,
Harald

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Re: OsmocomBB releases

[Harald Welte]

Hi Denis,

On Tue, Jan 25, 2022 at 10:39:27PM +0100, Denis 'GNUtoo' Carikli wrote:
> As I understand it is now possible to have a full software GSM stack in
> software[1], with the stock osmocomBB since trx_toolkit target was
> merged in OsmocomBB.

trx_toolkit / fake_trx is used to connect the MS side OSmocomBB with
the network side stack (osmo-bts-trx, etc.).

> Many network side components have releases[2] and several distributions
> already have part of the osmocom stack packaged[3][4].

Yes, this is primarily due to there being a lot of commercial interest and
associated contributions, allowing various people working full-time on it
for about a decade now.

On the MS side, there has never been any significant commercial interest,
and this is reflected in the situation that almost no code is being developed
for a long time, and also very little maintenance and no releases.

> Would the osmocomBB be interested in doing releases? Or is there
> something that is preventing that from happening (lack of interest?,
> lack of time/volunteers?, technical issues?).

OsmocomBB is in sever lack of any form of contribution.  There is no technical
or other reason why there are no releases.

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- Harald Welte http://laforge.gnumonks.org/

"Privacy in residential applications is a desirable marketing option."
  (ETSI EN 300 175-7 Ch. A6)