Fosdem 2019 Remarks

Fact that open source development is huge nowadays couldn’t be felt better than at Fosdem 2019, practically during the first day was almost impossible to move around even on the corridors. It is irrelevant to say that I gave up quickly in the morning trying to attend any session, after failing to find seats in two of the rooms I wanted to get in.

Therefore the first day resumed to hallways, expo areas and cafeterias, meeting and chatting mainly with fellow Kamailians and VoIP/RTC folks. I got also the chance to see again and catch up with couple of other projects and organizations, among them: FSFE, OSI, SFC, the main Linux distros, Fossasia or GSoC.

Back to real time communications, being again being again part of organizing team for the DevRoom and the lounge…

The lounge was available during the both days, as usual filled with many XMPP projects and devs, joined by the Matrix.org team. The SIP/VoIP folks were never attracted by the lounge during all these years, but we always had a stronger presence in the DevRoom.

The RTC DevRoom took place in building H, with a fair large space accommodating about 150 seats, allowing us to run smooth during the day. I haven’t done much on Sunday apart of helping around and chatting with folks just outside.

Henning gave a presentation on what’s new lately on Kamailio project. Asterisk, Matrix, Homer SIP Capture, reSIProcate and CGRateS had their usual presentations as well and WebRTC was also a relevant stake of the day. A new comer this year was the sip3.io project, another SIP capture and troubleshooting tool. Of course, some presentations were about XMPP, open source devs doing a lot of cool stuff with that protocol as well.

On Saturday, we had our informal developers meeting about Kamailio, among participants, besides myself (Daniel-Constantin Mierla), there were Henning Westerholt, Federico Cabiddu, Alexandr Dubovikov and Dragos Oancea. Four were also at the developers meetup in Dusseldorf and we agreed that was something very productive and we should do it again. Couple of ideas were discussed about short term development, more to be announced via mailing lists.

The top of the event was as usual the dinner, done by Kamailio project every Fosdem edition since 2009 (see who was there 10 years ago). Like in the past few years, we were joined by other VoIP devs participating in the DevRoom, being nearly 40 participants (to give few more names: James Body, Tim Panton, Dan Jenkins, Daniel Pocock, Joachim Vanheuverzwijn). Lot of fun and interesting discussions!

Big thanks to Voxbone.com for sponsoring it and to Torrey Searle for helping to organize the dinner!

And to attract more of you to contribute to open source (and Kamailio), I have to mention that I got one of the most amazing gifts in more than 17 years of OSS development: home made Belgian chocolate truffles, amazing taste (thanks Joachim/Zoiper)!

Till the next Fosdem, I am looking forward to meeting many of you at the next Kamailio World Conference, May 6-8, 2019, in Berlin, Germany! Registration is open!

Thanks for flying Kamailio!

Planning Fosdem 2019

Fosdem 2019 is approaching, so we surveying to see who from the community plans to go to the event. We also plan to organize again a dinner on Saturday evening, a tradition for our project at the past 10 editions or even more.

Henning Westerholt will give a presentation about Kamailio in the RTC Devroom.

Several other developers plan to go to the conference as well, among them Daniel-Constantin Mierla, Federico Cabiddu and Alexandr Dubovikov, therefore we open here the invitation to join for everyone in our community. Of course, at Fosdem will be developers from other VoIP projects, like Asterisk, Janus, CGRates, Homer, Jitsi, …

At the past editions we typically had two “kamailio” events:

• (1) an “ad-hoc” developers meeting in the cantina (or other available
  room around) to discuss about short term plans for Kamailio — time and
  place being decided as we meet there between us (expected in the
  afternoon of Saturday or during Sunday).
• (2) a dinner at a place nearby, with other VoIP folks joining us

If you plan to go to Fosdem and want to join the dinner, announce yourself on sr-users@lists.kamailio.org mailing list. Just be aware that you have to pay for your food and drinks at the dinner, unless we are going to be surprised again by a generous sponsor that covers partially or completely to dinner.

If you need more details about Fosdem, the website is:

• https://fosdem.org

Thanks for flying Kamailio!

FOSDEM 2019 – RTC DevRoom – CFP And Volunteers

FOSDEM 2019 (the free and open source software developers meeting) takes place during the 2nd and the 3rd of February 2019 in Brussels, Belgium:

• https://fosdem.org

The application to host a Real Time Communication devroom has been accepted and the call for presentations and volunteers has been started. The announcement with all the relevant details has been sent to the mailing list:

• https://lists.kamailio.org/pipermail/sr-users/2018-October/103582.html

Consider to submit a proposal if you have worked on something FOSS and interesting to share that is related to real time communications.

It is very likely that Kamailio project will participate once again at the event with a consistent group of developers and community members, continuing our more than 10 years long tradition to meet for a dinner and catch up on what new around RTC world!

Thanks for flying Kamailio!

FOSDEM 2018 – Call For Papers

FOSDEM is one of the world’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

• https://fosdem.org

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, 4th of 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: https://lists.fsfe.org/mailman/listinfo/free-rtc

To be kept aware of major developments in Free RTC, without being on the
discussion list, please join the Free-RTC Announce list:

• http://lists.freertc.org/mailman/listinfo/announce

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 30th of November.
Please use the Pentabarf system to submit a talk proposal for the
dev-room. On the “General” tab, please look for the “Track” option and
choose “Real Time Communications devroom”.

• https://penta.fosdem.org/submission/FOSDEM18/

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 at:

• https://www.fosdem.org/2018/schedule/tracks/

and apply for a lightning talk at

• https://fosdem.org/submit

Main track: the deadline for main track presentations is 23:59 UTC
3rd of November. Leading developers in the Real-Time Communications
field are encouraged to consider submitting a presentation to
the main track at:

• https://fosdem.org/submit

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 “Submission notes”, 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 number of 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 (depending upon number of
  participants) for the evening of Saturday, 3rd of 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 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 the 2nd of February 2018
http://wiki.xmpp.org/web/Summit_22 – please join the mailing
list for details: http://mail.jabber.org/mailman/listinfo/summit

Social Events And Dinners

The traditional FOSDEM beer night occurs on Friday, 2nd 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:

• https://lists.fsfe.org/mailman/listinfo/free-rtc

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:

All projects http://planet.freertc.org – planet@freertc.org

XMPP http://planet.jabber.org – ralphm@ik.nu

SIP http://planet.sip5060.net – planet@sip5060.net
(Español) http://planet.sip5060.net/es/ – 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:

• https://lists.fsfe.org/mailman/listinfo/free-rtc

The dev-room administration team:

Saúl Ibarra Corretgé
Iain R. Learmonth
Ralph Meijer
Daniel-Constantin Mierla
Daniel Pocock

Fosdem 2017 – Kamailio - VoIP Social Event

The Kamailio & VoIP friends dinner at Fosdem 2017 is planned to start at 20:00, on Saturday, Feb 4, 2017. The address is:

Le Pickwick
Avenue Adolphe Buyl 79
1050 Ixelles, Belgium

• https://en.yelp.be/biz/le-pickwick-ixelles

If you announced the intention to participate at the dinner before Feb 1, 2017, your seat is reserved. If you did it afterwards, please contact Daniel-Constantin Mierla during RTC Devroom to confirm the availability of the seats.

FOSDEM 2017 – RTC DevRoom – CFP

FOSDEM is one of the world's premier meetings of free software developers,
with over five thousand people attending each year.  FOSDEM 2017
takes place 4-5 February 2017 in Brussels, Belgium.  https://fosdem.org

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 Saturday, 4 February 2017.  The lounge will
be present for both days.

To discuss the dev-room and lounge, please join the FSFE-sponsored
Free RTC mailing list: https://lists.fsfe.org/mailman/listinfo/free-rtc

To be kept aware of major developments in Free RTC, without being on the
discussion list, please join the Free-RTC Announce list:
http://lists.freertc.org/mailman/listinfo/announce

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 17 November.
Please use the Pentabarf system to submit a talk proposal for the
dev-room.  On the "General" tab, please look for the "Track" option and
choose "Real-Time devroom".  https://penta.fosdem.org/submission/FOSDEM17/

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 at
   https://www.fosdem.org/2017/schedule/tracks/
and apply for a lightning talk at https://fosdem.org/submit

Main track: the deadline for main track presentations is 23:59 UTC
31 October.  Leading developers in the Real-Time Communications
field are encouraged to consider submitting a presentation to
the main track at https://fosdem.org/submit

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 "Submission notes", 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.  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 to other mailing lists

See the mailing list discussion for more details about volunteering:
https://lists.fsfe.org/pipermail/free-rtc/2016-October/000285.html

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 and 3 February 2017
http://wiki.xmpp.org/web/Summit_21 - please join the mailing
list for details: http://mail.jabber.org/mailman/listinfo/summit

We are also considering a more general RTC or telephony summit,
potentially in collaboration with the XMPP summit.
Please join the Free-RTC mailing list and send an email if you would
be interested in participating, sponsoring or hosting such an event.

Social events and dinners
=========================

The traditional FOSDEM beer night occurs on Friday, 3 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: https://lists.fsfe.org/mailman/listinfo/free-rtc

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:

  All projects    http://planet.freertc.org       planet@freertc.org

  XMPP            http://planet.jabber.org        ralphm@ik.nu

  SIP             http://planet.sip5060.net       planet@sip5060.net
    (Español)     http://planet.sip5060.net/es/   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:
https://lists.fsfe.org/mailman/listinfo/free-rtc

FOSDEM 2016

Continuing the tradition, many members of Kamailio project community will be at Fosdem 2016and we are planning again a social event on Saturday night (Jan 30, 2016). Among participants announced so far: Alexandr Dubovikov, Daniel-Constantin Mierla, Federico Cabiddu, Giacomo Vacca and Lorenzo Mangani.

Should you want to join us for some drinks, food and interesting chats, announce yourself on sr-users mailing list (sr-users [at] lists.sip-router.org). As usual, each participants pays for himself or herself.

There will be also couple of talks touching Kamailio on various tracks of Fosdem.

Preparing for FOSDEM 2016

Daniel Pocock has sent a very informative email about FOSDEM 2016 and Real Time Communications – read it here., with useful details about volunteering and speaking opportunities.

FOSDEM 2016 takes place in Brussels, Belgium, during January 30-31, 2016, being one of the biggest gathering events for open source developers world wide. It will host a Real Time dev room, as the successor of Telephony and XMPP dev rooms.

Members of Kamailio community will be at the event, continuing the tradition of several years in a row to meet there and discuss what is new about the project and real time communications.

Fosdem 2015

The 15th  Fosdem conference takes place in Brussels, Belgium, during Jan 31 – Feb 01. No open source telephony dev room this edition, allowing more time to discover other cool open source projects, many very useful to combine in deploying VoIP platforms, such as virtualisation, configuration management and monitoring.

Still a big group of Kamailio friends are around, among them: Alexandr Dubovikov, Giacomo Vacca, Adam Linford, Olle E. Johansson, Dan Bogos, Henning Westerholt, Daniel-Constantin Mierla. A dinner event is planned together with Emil Ivov and the Jitsi team.

Don’t forget about the next open source RTC event in Europe, the 3rd Kamailio World Conference, in Berlin, Germany, during May 27-29, 2015.

Fosdem 2014

Continuing our tradition for many years now of meeting at the Fosdem Conference, a consistent group of people related to Kamailio project will be in Brussels over the weekend of February 1-2, 2014.

If you want to join us, send an email to – among the people to meet:

• Henning Westerholt
• Alexandr Dubovikov
• Dan Bogos
• Daniel-Constantin Mierla
• Torrey Searle
• Victor Seva
• Stefan Sayer

On Saturday evening we are going out for some drinks and light dinner with the friends at Jitsi project. You are welcome to join as well!

Kamailio Presentations at Fosdem 2011

Fosdem 2011 edition was again very successful. The only problem that comes (naturally) to this event: it started to be very crowded, making a challenge to attend any kind of speech there.

For me was the opportunity to meet with many folks around Kamailio project and VoIP, most of them known from past editions, but every time I return from Brussels with a bag of new connections.

Saturday evening we had the traditional Kamailio dinner (we should turn it next year in Open Source Telephony dinner), this time in a fancy restaurant, but with very tasteful menu choices.

During the days we tried to use the breaks at maximum and discuss a bit about the future development in Kamailio and what is new in the VoIP world.

In the Open Source Telephony Devroom, Kamailio had two presentations:

• Henning Westerholt and Marius Zbihlei - Scaling Location Services in Large SIP Networks with Kamailio - slides available here
  
• Myself - Unifying SIP and Web Worlds with Lua - slides available here