Tuesday, October 25, 2016

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
    (EspaƱol)     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

Monday, October 24, 2016

FUSECO Forum 2016

The 7th edition of FUSECO Forum, organized by Fraunhofer Fokus Institute, takes place between November 3-4, 2017, in Berlin, Germany:
This year, the focus is on understanding application drivers and technology evolution towards softwarized 5G networks and the industrial internet revolution.
fuseco-forum-logo_2016This year the FUSECO Forum will be accompanied by 2 additional international events on 5G, all of them held during the same week in Berlin. Don´t miss any of them and get ready for 5G and the Industrial Internet of Things!

Friday, October 7, 2016

TADHack Global 2016 – Berlin

This year the global edition of Telecom Application Developer Hackathon is organized during October 14 -16, 2016, with many locations world wide, among them being also Berlin. For more details, see:
TADHack is the global meeting place for developers who want to learn, share, code and create using the tools and technologies available in telecommunications.
tadhack-2016-global
The Berlin event is hosted by VoIP Lab, part of Buro 2.0 co-working space, being coordinated by Dennis P. Kersten during October 15-16, 2016.
Several Kamailio developers from Berlin area are participating to the event. Any developer can participate for free, you are welcome to join us in Berlin or anywhere around the world — you can do it also remotely, from your living room or your preferred working space. Think about an idea to code, hack and demo it for wining some nice goodies from sponsors!
Happy telecom hacking!

Thursday, October 6, 2016

KazooCon 2016

The next edition of Kazoo Project Conference takes place in San Francisco, CA, USA, during October 17-18, 2016.
Kazoo is a flexible cloud PBX platform, released under open source, developed by 2600hz.com, with the telephony engine built using Kamailio, FreeSwitch and an Erlang controller, all wrapped nicely with a web management interface, doing all sorts of things from account management to billing and monitoring.
kazoocon
If you want to start a cloud telephony business or get into this market as a reseller, KazooCon is an event that you should definitely attend. More details about the conference are available at:
Kamailio incorporates a module with the same name, kazoo, but besides it, the developers from Kazoo project contributed a consistent effort in advancing the presence and database modules. Therefore expect to meet a lot of Kamailio friends around at KazooCon and participate in many interesting discussions.
Thanks for flying Kamailio!