Osmocom Conferences (OsmoDevCon, OsmoCon, OsmoDevCall)

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h1. OsmoDevCall

As [[OsmoDevCon]] could not be hosted in 2020 due to the Corona virus outbreak, and it seems it is unlikely we will be able to host one in 2021 either, we are announcing a new *Osmo* com *Dev* eloper *Call* is a new format of online meetings within the Osmocom community (originally discussed in #4928).

The formant serves two major purposes:

# technical presentations about osmocom relevant topics - ideally current/recent developments

#* can be pre-recorded to avoid any problems with technical setup, streaming, ...

#*should ideally have a Q+A session at their initial "airing" during one OsmoDevCall

# unstructured solicited social event (USSE)

#* random chat in audio (optionally video)

#* not recorded, obviously

The recording of the technical presentation should then be permanently made available (like the presentations of our prior [[OsmoCon]] / [[OsmoDevCon]]).

Not every OsmoDevCall would neccessarily need the two parts, but I think it would be great if we can make that happen. We could also have e.g. a two-weekly schedule for the USSE and a monthly schedule for the technical presentation.

We'd need somebody to volunteer to "manage" the "broadcast" side of this, preferably somebody with at least some prior exposure to online events (like the c3voc).

h2. Timing

Currently we are considering timing over the weekend Fri/Sat/Sun to ensure participation from those working on/with Osmocom in their spare time.

Right now, Friday evening (e.g. 8pm CET) looks like a likely candidate.

h2. Venue / Platform

Not confirmed yet, but we are currently asking "KNF":https://franken.de/ if we can use their BBB infrastructure for hosting the event.

In Emergencies, we can also try a Jitsi meet instance operated by sysmocom, but the number of participants we expect for OsmoDevCall likely exceeds its capacity.

h2. Topics (for the "presentation" part)

h3. Future

This is a wishlist of future topics for the "presentation" part:

|_.Topic|_.Possible Speaker|

|iceE1usb in practice|@tnt|

|mult-TRX + frequency hopping in OsmoBTS|@fixeria|

|MSC pooling|@neels|

|SGSN pooling|@daniel|

|Frame Relay based Gb interface / NS2|@laforge, @lynxis|

|VAMOS|@fixeria, @hoernchen, @neels|

|Cell Broadcast and OsmoCBC|@laforge|

|Distributed GSM|@neels, @osmith|

|E1 based BTSs using OsmoBSC + OsmoMGW|@laforge, @dexter, @keith|

|Location Services and OsmoLCS|@neels|

|osmo-remsim in practice|@laforge|

|SIMtrace2 tutorial|@laforge|

|pysim-shell|@laforge, @dexter|

|building wired RF test setups for cellular|@laforge, @mschramm|

|CSFB with Osmocom + open5gs EPC||

|Long range telecommunications in HF band|@rafael2k|

|Visualizing Osmo* internals with opentelemetry|@daniel|

|Hacking binary protocols with Pycrate|@fixeria|

|State of TTCN-3 test cases for OsmoPCU|@pespin|

|DebugMux: getting baseband logs from old Sony Ericsson phones|@fixeria|

|PV solar array generation and house power consumption monitoring with osmo-modbus|@pespin|

|userspace tracing / tracepoings using systemtap, USDT|@laforge|

|Iridium reverse engineering update|@sec, @schneider|

|Review of what happened in Osmocom in 2020|@laforge|

h3. Past

We'll move the events from the above table to here once they have happened.

h2. Code of Conduct

The existing [[Code_of_Conduct]] of our previous physical / on-site / presence meetings applies.