James, As Daniel already pointed out, there is quite some open-source development in the ham-radio community. Anycase, my goal is not to make FOSDEM a ham-radio event. There already exist quite a few of hamventions so there is shortage of that. The big difference is that FOSDEM is a DEVELOPER conference, which is -I think- something that the ham-radio community does not have. My idea is to try to get people together who are involved in actual development of open-source ham-radio related software and hardware projects and focus the talks on subjects of actual software and hardware development. As far as I know, this is something that does not yet exist and would fit in the idea of FOSDEM. Hence my qyestion, what are the requirements to start a devroom? Who should be contact for this? Kristoff On 01-07-17 20:43, James wrote:
On Sat, Jul 1, 2017 at 1:57 PM, Daniel Pocock <daniel@pocock.pro> wrote:
There are also SDR topics that don't involve ham radio. Indeed, however for a FOSDEM conference (software) Ham without software is just Ham and has no place at FOSDEM. With software it's SDR.
All the non-digital radios that most hams use are all proprietary, so unless there's suddenly a huge scene for that, I don't think this belongs at FOSDEM.
Just my opinion anyways.
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