Welcome to Osmocom Conference 2017

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A diverse audience

Osmocom developers
Commercial cellular Operators
Community Wireless Network Operators
IT Security
Academia / Research
Vendors of BTS hardware / PHY layers
M2M / IoT Device Testing

Thanks to..

Heike for organization, backoffice, registration
Maike for ticket sales, registration
our hosts here at JGH Berlin
our Speakers
the anonymous sponsor of the travel grants
C3VOC of Chaos Computer Club for video recordings
Everyone who ever contributed code to Osmocom!

Schedule

10:00	10:30	Morning Break
12:30	13:30	Lunch Break
15:30	16:00	Afternoon Break
19:30	-	Social event (doors)
20:00	-	Social event (food)

and lots of technical talks in between, of course

Social Event

Address

Restaurant "Zur Gerichtslaube"
Poststr. 28
10178 Berlin

We have leaflets with map + address informations
Get there: By yourself, using public transport or cabs
Vegetarian + Vegan option available upon request

Where do we come from?

2008: Humble beginnings with bs11_abis + bsc_hack
- Dieter Spaar + Harald Welte start with old Siemens BS-11 and ISDN-Card
- implement whatever needed beyond the BTS to simulate a telephony network
- turned into OpenBSC in December 2008

commit 52b1f9888905df8aa6ecd50af900b63f5273de6a
Author: Harald Welte <laforge@gnumonks.org>
Date:   Tue Dec 23 20:25:15 2008 +0000

    initial commit of current OpenBSC state

From OpenBSC to Osmocom

2009: OpenBSC code matures beyond PoC
2009: Support for ip.access nanoBTS
- first multi-vendor BSC to our knowledge
2010: OsmocomBB project starts for phone-side GSM stack
Start of Osmocom as umbrella project for OpenBSC + OsmocomBB

Osmocom 101

umbrella project for O pen S ource MO bile COM munications
FOSS developers exploring mobile communications
much larger than the Cellular Infrastructure projects we talk about today
- TETRA, Thuraya, DECT, OP25, SDR, SIMtrace and many others
- 59 projects in https://osmocom.org/ redmine
- 112 git repositories on https://git.osmocom.org/
most well-known typically OsmocomBB, OpenBSC + rtl-sdr

Community + Collaborative Development

Free Software is about collaborative development
- shared investment in R&D, while everyone can use full results
- it is not about a one-way producer/consumer relationship
sustainable projects need serious committment contributions from all stake holders

sysmocom - s.f.m.c. GmbH

founded in 2011 by two core Osmocom developers
exists to drive/support Osmocom development
does not claim (nor want) ownership over any part of Osmocom
organizes this event as Osmocom is no legal entity
unfortunately is doing >= 80% of commits in Osmocom cellular infrastructure projects.
- Osmocom must not depend on sysmocom
- we need more commitment and contributions from all users and beneficiaries

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