"State of FOSS on mobile"
UB4.132 | Day 1 | 10:30 - 11:00 | Speakers: Chris Simmonds, David Llewellyn-Jones, Romain Hunault
Abstract
This is a review of the current state of Free and Open Source Software on Mobile devices. Mobile computing continues to be one of the most conspicuous and rapidly evolving software ecosystems ever, and open source software is at the heart of it - from the Linux kernel, the tooling, languages and libraries needed to write apps, through to devices that run a completely open source stack
We will talk about the changes in the way Google releases AOSP code and how that affects developers of custom ROMs and off-the-shelf devices. We will talk about developments in fully Android-free platforms, and we will talk about hardware support, drawing on voices from across the FOSS mobile community.
The presentation will be of interest to those already involved in the FOSS and mobile communities, and also to those who are just interested to get an overview of the landscape.
Attachments
Speakers
Chris Simmonds is a software consultant and professional geek living in Northern England. He has more than two decades of experience in designing and building open-source embedded systems. He is a big believer in Open Source and the importance of community. He is the author of the book “Mastering Embedded Linux Programming”, and is the moving force behind the AOSP and AAOS Meetup group (aospandaaos.github.io/). He is a frequent presenter at open source and embedded conferences, including OSS and FOSDEM. You can see some of his work on the “Inner Penguin” blog at 2net.co.uk.
David (he/him) is a Research Data Scientist at The Alan Turing Institute and a member of the Research Computing Team managing and developing the organisation's High Performance Computing and Cloud infrastructure.
In previous lives he's been a computer games programmer, computer security researcher and most recently a software engineer developing the Linux-based Sailfish OS smartphone operating system at Jolla in Finland.
David is passionate about open source and open research. He's involved in open source software development and the open source community, especially the community around Sailfish OS. Over the last 12 months he's been writing a daily dev diary of his experience porting NewPipe for use on Sailfish OS.
Engineering manager at Murena
Links
External Links
Notice: The placeholder video image is licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0. The original image can be found hereChanges made to the image are: Cropped the image to a new ratio, part of the image was cut off.