Replicant

h1. Replicant contributors meeting the 27,28 July in France

h2. Details

*Date:* 27,28 July

h2. Location

The event will take place in the "April":https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/April_(French_association) "offices":https://april.org/en/contact-us. April is an association for the defense and promotion of free software.

The offices are relatively close to the "Gare Montparnasse railway station.":https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gare_Montparnasse

In addition to trains, Gare Montparnasse railway station has also, in the same building, a metro station where you can access the metro lines 4, 6, 12 and 13.

h3. Airports

The two main airports near Paris are the "Roissy Charles de Gaulle International Airport":https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_de_Gaulle_International_Airport and the "Paris Orly Airport":https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orly_Airport.

h2. More information

"Wikivoyage":https://en.wikivoyage.org has a page on "Paris":https://en.wikivoyage.org/wiki/Paris which has many practical information such as:

* How to stay safe in Paris

* The climate

* Information on the public transportation

h2. Still being defined, to be confirmed

Precise schedule:

*Saturday:* Noon -> Night?

*Sunday:* 9H or 10H AM -> 14H?

Presentations?:

* The Graphic stack in Replicant 9

* The modem stack on Replicant supported smartphones and tablets by Denis Carikli?

* Booting on the devices supported by Replicant

** Issues related to proprietary bootloader like s-boot

* Porting Replicant to Android 9 by Joonas Kylmälä?

* A discussion about [[Upstream]] components, [[Upstream#Design-decisions|design choices]], and cultural re-appropriation of technology?

** How subjective security is, threat models, and the difference between free software and device maker point of view

** Sharing work with GNU/Linux to enable more political control and cultural re-appropriation of mobile device in the long run, and the risk associated with it

** Android upstream anti-features and political design choices

** Issues when combining together different build systems (Example: Android build system with Kconfig)