Replicant at FOSDEM 2020

Posted on January 6, 2020 by dllud

As happens every year, FOSDEM is taking place on the first weekend of February. Several Replicant contributors will be at the event, eager to meet with other people interested in the project.

During Saturday Replicant will share a little corner on Technoethical’s stand. There will be flyers, stickers and some phones running demo versions of Replicant 9.

Later that day, Replicant is having a Birds of a Feather (BoF) meeting:

Location: room J.1.106, ULB, Brussels, Belgium
Date: Saturday, February 1st 2020, between 16:00 and 17:00 CET
Event page: https://fosdem.org/2020/schedule/event/bof_replicant/

The meeting is open for everyone interested in the Replicant project (users, developers, devices vendors, etc.). Access is public and free as in beer.

Here’s a non-exhaustive list of the topics that will be up for debate:

Replicant 9 status on the i9300/i9305: bootloader, modem, LCD, audio, graphics.
Future targets: PinePhone, Librem5.
WebView dependency on non-free Chromium.
Android build system.
Replicant infrastructure: servers, test benches, build machines.
Long term project sustainability.
Supported mainline kernel phones, what kernel versions brought what support and what is upcomming in the next kernel versions.
How the endorsement of stores selling Replicant devices should work.
Wiki migration from Redmine to MediaWiki.
Upstream and maintainership of the code of Replicant 9 that enables to use an upstream kernel.
Relationship with LineageOS on supporting the Galaxy SIII.

If there’s any other topic you deem as relevant please let us know in the comment section, mailing list or IRC. Everyone’s point of view is welcomed.

On Sunday’s afternoon, there will be a talk at the Hardware Enablement devroom on the topic of “Extending the lifetime of smartphones with Replicant”:

Location: room K.4.401, ULB, Brussels, Belgium
Date: Sunday, February 2nd 2020, between 16:00 and 16:55 CET
Event page: https://fosdem.org/2020/schedule/event/replicant/

Replicant @ 36C3

Posted on December 26, 2019 by dllud

Starting on December 27th, the 36th Chaos Communication Congress (36C3) is taking place in Leipzig. Replicant will be there as part of the Critical Decentralization Cluster.

Replicant’s assembly will feature demos of the current Replicant 6 as well as the upcoming Replicant 9. It is the place to come by if you need some help installing Replicant or general advice regarding software freedom on smartphones and tablets. You can also take the opportunity to verify the release signing PGP key.

Location: L4, Exhibition Hall 2, Level 0
DECT: 6506

There will also be a few talks about Replicant and related topics in several spots around the congress:

Introduction to Replicant – December 27 19:15, Central Decentralization Cluster (CDC) stage
Android’s build system is messier than your distro’s – December 28 20:30, Lecture Room M1
Extending the lifetime of smartphones with Replicant – December 28 20:50, Open Infrastructure Orbit (OIO) stage
The chromium mess meets Android – December 29 21:00, Lecture Room M1

Meeting Point at FOSDEM

Posted on January 30, 2019 by Fil

The Replicant Community Meeting will take place on Sunday, the 3rd of February at 11:00 AM in room J.1.106 at ULB, Brussels Belgium.
We have successfully booked a BoF room at FOSDEM, so we will have a quiet, heated and comfortable place where we can all sit together.

Access is public and free as in beer.
We encourage everyone to participate and contribute their opinion.
This meeting will be essential to the future arrangement of Replicant as a structured Project.

Any schedule update or other info can be tracked on the event’s dedicated page on FOSDEM’s website.
Replicant’s blog will also be updated accordingly.

IMPORTANT NOTICE: This announcement is about the community meeting. The time schedule for the workshop hasn’t been decided yet.
Interested people are encouraged to write to the mailing list to help organize it.
Also, the related poll is still open.