Replicant Project Online Meetings¶

• Table of contents
• Replicant Project Online Meetings
  • Very first meeting.
    • Date, time, location and protocols
    • Meeting schedule
    • Meeting summary
      • People's presentation:
      • Status of current work:
      • Other topics
  • 2nd meeting
    • Date, time, location and protocols

Very first meeting.¶

Date, time, location and protocols¶

18 June 2024 at 19:00 CEST
Mumble on the mumble.replicant.us self hosted Mumble server.

Public announcement: https://blog.replicant.us/2024/06/first-online-replicant-meeting/

Meeting schedule¶

1. Presentation of attendees (very short).
2. Summary of the current work:
   1. WordPress conversion to a static website (GNUtoo);
   2. other tiny infrastructure work (GNUtoo);
   3. building 100% free Android SDKs (wizzard);
   4. status of PinePhone work (NLnet funded) (GNUtoo, dllud).
3. Status of the Steering Committee and adding dllud to Steering Committee.
4. Call for the (Community) Manager.
5. How/when to setup the next meeting.
6. Other discussions.

Meeting summary¶

Attendees: dllud, GNUtoo, jack_kekzoz, Johannes__dolphinana, Putti, tct, thatch, wizzard
Duration: 1h30m
All scheduled topics were addressed.

People's presentation:¶

First the people presented themselves. Both GNUtoo and wizzard also started presenting what they worked on in more details:

• dllud: <TODO: please dllud fill in your presentation if you remember it>.
• GNUtoo was recently involved in sysadmin work and on the conversion of the blog from Wordpress to a static website (with haunt). He also applied for funding for working on the PinePhone but got sidetracked with another somewhat related project (GNU Boot) because he initially planned to use Libreboot to produce the bootloader for the PinePhone.
• jack_kekzoz helps answering questions on IRC. jack_kekzoz is also a postmarketOS contributors for devices with an Exynos system on a chip. jack_kekzoz also has a Galaxy Note II LTE (TTN71005?).
• wizzard is involved in automatizing builds of a free Android SDK.

• Johannes__dolphinana wants to contribute to Replicant.
• As we understood, thatch is interested in community networks and devices that can work with them and wants to learn how to contribute to Replicant on work that goes in this direction.
• 'tct' couldn't talk due to microphones issues but 'tct' is most likely Tiberiu from Technoetical.

Status of current work:¶

• GNUtoo:
  • For the conversion of the blog to a static website, GNUtoo explained:
    • why we needed a static blog: we cannot easily collaborate to write a blog post in WordPress: we need to share the article by mail, discuss parts of it, include improvements, in a way that is transparent, and git + mail works best for that
    • why haunt was chosen for that: haunt is very flexible and he is also migrating the GNU Boot website to haunt, so that shares the burden of learning between both projects.
    • The current status:
      • We still need to be able to have comments through the Replicant mailing list
      • We also need to not break URLs
      • As-is the blog is deployed on https://blog.test.replicant.us and the tools provided with its source code enable to import back the articles to WordPress so right now even if the work is not finished, we can still save a lot of time by collaborating by mail and/or with git.
  • For the sysadmin work, GNUtoo also explained his current work.

Other topics¶

• How/when to setup the next meeting
  To be held in 2 months on the same medium (Mumble).

Non-scheduled topics that were addressed:

1. The reasoning behind the drop of future support for all current phones: 2G and 3G sunset. We should write an article just about it.
2. thatch addressed the need for independent communication infrastructures (e.g. meshnets) which unfortunately are out-of-scope for the time being (more developers needed on Replicant).
3. jack_kekzoz and Putti showed interest on working on the Samsung Galaxy S III / Note 2 4G. The lack of VoLTE on these models may be address with https://github.com/phhusson/ims and https://github.com/DoubangoTelecom/imsdroid/
4. Johannes__dolphinana raised the need for archiving and publishing the #replicant IRC logs. GNUtoo hinted that matterbridge may have a logging function. Help on this task is appreciated.

2nd meeting¶

Date, time, location and protocols¶

18 August 2024 19:00 CEST
mumble.replicant.us