Jérôme Sautret and Edhelas will be presenting together: "Engineering XMPP Federation: Building Messaging, Voice & Social Features Across Independent Projects"
Now in the Decentralised Communication devroom: @cassidy and Anne presenting how Roost helps orgs mutualise their Trust & Safety efforts to keep people safe
To understand how we can replace Google push notifications (FCM) with something open source and decentralized, we need to understand how they work and why they are needed in the first place. This talk explains the mechanics of push notifications and why, despite their potentially bad reputation, they are a more elegant solution than having every app maintain its own persistent server connection.
While open-source tools like microG can remove proprietary Google software from your Android phone, the actual notifications are still sent via Google's servers (Firebase Cloud Messaging).
UnifiedPush is a framework that allows push notifications to be delivered in a decentralized manner or through self-hosted servers. Numerous open-source Android apps already support UnifiedPush, including Tusky, Ltt.rs, Fedilab, DAVx⁵, Fennec, Element, and many more.
The presentation ends with a short demo on how to use UnifiedPush on Android.
I am getting ready for the second day of #FOSDEM! The first day was a blast! It was great to meet old friends and new people. I am loving the new location of the #XMPP & Realtime Lounge, that is now in the AW building. If you are around today, come say hi!
We should explore adopting or integrating the MidCamp Live Captioning project as part of FOSDEM’s accessibility efforts. https://github.com/MidCamp/live-captioning?tab=readme-ov-file#live-captionin...
25% of the population has a disability. 100% of the population has temporary or situational barriers which needlessly stop them from accessing information on the web. The FOSDEM community isn't doi...
A very nice first day at FOSDEM. I spent time at the @matrix booth and met overwhelmingly enthusiastic people, then left it to our fabulous team of volunteers.
I’ve met Allan and @jsparber at the @gnome booth, got one of those fabulous systemd T-shirts, said hi to the @postmarketOS gang, got a T-shirt and brainstormed with @pabloyoyoista, got to thank Proxmox and OpenTofu for the great tools they provide.
> See this > take out phone > while taking the picture, another person stops next to us, does the same thing > We all look at each other: "FOSDEM?" and laugh 😂
Oh no ... We have all this beer (more than 20 varieties), who will help us drink it ... Come join us for awesome music, delicious drinks and cool vibes (aka blinky Lights) during #bytenight2026bytenight.brussels/ #fosdem ps. We also have loads of soft drinks as well as club mate of course.... Bring your friends and your friends friends
“Common arguments for open source include lower costs, interoperability and transparancy… they don't form one coherent narrative but choose whichever works best for each target group. You can use everything, just like ingredients in hot pot”—Rosalind Liu #fosdem
