The panel discussion and integration test effort below will hopefully be
a useful follow up to the FSF Europe "Hunt for a Skype alternative"
I hope to meet some of you at FOSDEM in February
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Subject: [asterisk-dev] FOSDEM 2013 Telephony/Communications Devroom
Call for Presenters
Date: Sat, 24 Nov 2012 20:37:28 -0600
From: Matthew Jordan <mjordan(a)digium.com>
Reply-To: Asterisk Developers Mailing List <asterisk-dev(a)lists.digium.com>
To: Asterisk Developers Mailing List <asterisk-dev(a)lists.digium.com>
Greetings,
This is a call for presenters for the telephony and communications
devroom at FOSDEM 2013 - http://www.fosdem.org/.
We will be holding a day full of presentations on development topics in
the area of open source telephony and communications on Sunday, February
3rd. The schedule allows for presentations from 9:00 to 15:00. Following
the development topic presentations, a panel discussing the challenges
of federated and distributed free Real-time Communications (RTC) and its
significance to the Free and Open Source Software community will be
held, hosted by Daniel Pocock and Peter Saint-Andre.
Please submit all proposals no later than 2013-01-04. Notification of
accepted speakers will be provided by 2013-01-07. We will then work to
have a schedule finalized by 2013-01-11. Please include the following
with your submission:
1. Title of your presentation.
2. The duration of your talk (between 20 and 60 minutes). Please
indicate the minimum and maximum size slot that you are comfortable with.
3. The speaker(s) presenting.
4. A brief description of the content of the presentation.
This year, proposals will be reviewed and approved by a panel. That
panel consists of:
* Daniel Pocock <daniel at pocock.com.au>
* Peter Saint-Andre <stpeter at stpeter.im>
* Matt Jordan <mjordan at digium.com>
If you would like to contact the devroom organizer directly, please
contact Matt Jordan <mjordan at digium.com>.
The room we will be using will have a projector, wifi, and 150 seats.
In addition to the Telephony DevRoom, this year we will be hosting a
Real Time Communication Integration Test effort. Projects that are
incorporating any RTC or VoIP capabilities are invited to participate in
the integration test efforts. This will be similar to SIPit, but
smaller, for open source projects, and independent of protocol. More
information regarding the RTC integration testing will be made available
on the telephony-devroom mailing list.
Feel free to forward this along to any people or mailing lists that you
think would be interested in this event.
Thank you!
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Somebody has started a petition to get an ISO 4217 currency code for
Bitcoin recognised by the ISO authorities:
http://www.change.org/petitions/six-interbank-clearing-include-a-symbol-for…
There is some background info in these forums (and contact details if
you want to write a formal submission to the ISO as well as signing the
petition):
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=123600.msg1327579#msg1327579
It would be interesting to know the FSF Europe position with respect to
Bitcoin - can anyone comment? Has there been any initiative in any
European country to have Bitcoin recognised or to confirm its legal status?
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This Wednesday there will be a debate between candidates from the
major political parties on digital issues in Manchester, including
digital rights and privacy. This event is organised by the Open Rights
Group, FSFE, the National Union of Journalists, and NO2ID.
Come along for a chance to put your questions to the candidates who
are standing in the upcoming Manchester Central By-election, and help
put digital issues on the radar of British politics.
Free entry, 7pm start at the Dancehouse on Oxford Road:
http://manchester.openrightsgroup.org/2012/10/24/manchester-digital-debate/
The venue has a capacity of around 500, so bring your friends!
Best,
Sam.
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Sam Tuke
Campaign Manager
Free Software Foundation Europe
IM : samtuke(a)jabber.fsfe.org
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https://secure.38degrees.org.uk/page/s/what-campaign-next-july-2012-1page#p…
for those of us who are on the 38 degrees train, they are having their
annual "what issues should we focus on next" vote - there is a box on the
form for which campaign should we do right now, and I put "all elected
bodies should use free software and open standards"
thought maybe if we all wrote it and got everyone to write it, we could
make a noise?
Pass it on folks!! : )
Love to all
Anna
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I'm pleased to announce that FSFE will once again have a booth at OggCamp -
this year in Liverpool on 18th and 19th August (http://oggcamp.org/).
Please come and say hello if you'll be in attendance, and if you're able to
help run the booth please let me know. Anna (Manchester Fellow) and I will
drive down with leaflets and merchandise.
Another two volunteers would be very helpful, and mean that we can take turns
and have an opportunity to see talks.
Looking forward to seeing you there!
Sam.
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Free Software Foundation Europe
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Hi,
Spicebird is shutting down. The following is their closing down statement to Spicebird users.
Support for Spicebird has been discontinued. We thank our loyal users for all the support and recommend you to migrate to Mozilla Thunderbird for a similar customizable and open experience.
Why stop further development and Support?
Spicebird isn't as relevant as it was when the project started. A few months after we started working on Spicebird, Mozilla Messaging emerged and development was active again. Many features that kept Spicebird stand out started getting introduced into Thunderbird. Thunderbird began evolving so rapidly that it was really hard for Spicebird to keep up.
Where is the source code?
The latest source code is available for download (http://spicebird.org/spicebird-0.8-latest.tar.bz2), but it is based on a pretty old version of Thunderbird. It will be great if you can drop us a line about how you plan to use the source code — some of us might even help you in the new project!
Is there anything else coming from here?
There are plans to push some of the Spicebird features as Thunderbird addons
Contact
For help in migration check our notes on migrating to Thunderbird. For any further questions or suggestions we are available at contact(a)spicebird.org
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Dear all
Please accept my apology, I sent an email reply meant for Sam Tuk about an accommodation question, without checking the sender´s email address and inadvertently sent the note to fellowship UK list.
Regards to all
Shahram
Shahram <shahram(a)fsfe.org>
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Richard is visiting the UK for a series of talks and needs somewhere to stay
in London between 21 and 23 June. Can anybody accommodate him?
Richard's UK talks:
http://uk.fsfe.org
Richard travels frequently and appreciates careful attention from his hosts.
Best,
Sam.
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British Team Coordinator
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Details:
http://openstandardsroundtable5.eventbrite.co.uk/
Is the Government one of your potential customers? Free Software may shortly
be locked out of opportunities in the public sector if proposed Open Standards
policy is adopted.
Tomorrow afternoon the Cabinet Office is consulting businesses in the North West
on how the policy could affect the market, and whether it would result in a
distorted playing-field for Free Software solutions.
Those in the Manchester area, please go to the meeting tomorrow afternoon in
MadLab and tell the Government if your business uses Open Standards as part of
a product or service.
Free Software could be blocked from public sector use if the new policy allows
"FRAND" terms within British standards. Millions of pounds has been spent on
lobbying to pressure the UK Government to back down on a strong definition of
Open Standards over the past few months, as recently discovered via Freedom of
Information requests.
Whether a national UK standard can be adopted if it block Free Software by
requiring royalties to be paid to private third parties is not yet decided -
your comments tomorrow on how Open Standards affect your business could make
the difference.
FRAND is FRAUD:
https://fsfe.org/news/2012/news-20120426-01.en.html
Non-Government groups demand Open Standards:
https://fsfe.org/news/2012/news-20120425-02.en.html
Best,
Sam.
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Sam Tuke
British Team Coordinator
Free Software Foundation Europe
IM : samtuke(a)jabber.fsfe.org
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ACTA threatens free software, and entrenches DRM:
https://www.fsf.org/campaigns/acta/http://blogs.fsfe.org/gerloff/2012/03/01/acta-first-do-no-harm
Volunteer stewards are needed for the upcoming UK protests (see below).
On Thursday 24 May 2012 17:25:14 Jim Killock wrote:
> Can I ask if anyone here is willing to act as a steward for the demo?
>
> We desparately need around 20 stewards.
>
> On 23 May 2012, at 07:15, Martin Houston wrote:
>
> Now have a location confirmed for the main London ACTA protest:
>
> See http://june9.org.uk/ - please let people know.
>
> On 14 May 2012 19:43, Martin Houston <mhoust42(a)gmail.com> wrote:
> The next wave of Europe wide ACTA protests are due on 9th June - I
> have set up a small website http://june9.org.uk to help co-ordinate
> the protests that people want to stage in the UK.
>
> One thing we need is some funding to help with flyer costs etc. Open
> Rights group are acting as bankers for any donations people want to
> make on behalf of their organisations. Just a few hundred pounds would
> really help get the message out to the public about these increasingly
> desperate attempts to silence the Internet.
Best,
Sam.
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British Team Coordinator
Free Software Foundation Europe
IM : samtuke(a)jabber.fsfe.org
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