Added by laforge over 5 years ago
Thanks to the great support of the OpenSuSE Build Service, Osmocom is now offering binary package feeds for the popular Raspbian distribution, Version 9.
As a result, running Osmocom CNI (Cellular Network Infrastructure) on Raspbery Pi embedded computers is easier than ever: Just add the Latest_Builds
or Nightly_Builds feed to /etc/apt/sources.list[.d] and run your Osmocom based 2G and/or 3G cellular network.
Added by laforge over 5 years ago
The Osmocom project has released new version of the CNI (Cellular Network Infrastructure) software, including OsmoTRX, OsmoBTS, OsmoBSC, OsmoMGW, OsmoMSC, OsmoHLR, OsmoSGSN, OsmoGGSN.
Those new tagged/released versions contain half a year of work since the previous versions released during summer 2018. The primary focus was on bug-fixing and stabilization as well as some major new features, such as inter-BSC-handover support in osmo-bsc.
You can find pre-compiled binary packages of our latest release for a variety of Debian and Ubuntu GNU/Linux versions at Latest_Builds.
osmo-trx-lms without the detour of uhd+soapy-uhd+soapysdrAdded by laforge over 5 years ago
Thanks to c3voc, the video recordings of the first day of OsmoCon2018 have been released on the very same day.
For a list of videos available, please see https://media.ccc.de/c/osmocon2018
The recorded presentations include:As the videos of the second day (today) become available, they will be added to the above list.
Links from the conference schedule to he videos will be added later on.
Added by laforge over 5 years ago
Only one week left until OsmoCon 2018 takes place in Berlin, Germany.
We're looking forward to an exciting schedule of technical presentations covering most of the exciting work that has been happening in the Osmocom universe throughout the last 12-18 months.
Tickets are still available from our ticket shop, see https://pretix.sysmocom.de/sysmocom/osmocon2018/, and community discount vouchers are also still availble.
See you at OsmoCon 2018 on October 18+19, 2018!
Added by laforge over 5 years ago
Only two weeks left until OsmoCon 2018 takes place in Berlin, Germany.
We're looking forward to an exciting schedule of technical presentations covering most of the exciting work that has been happening in the Osmocom universe throughout the last 12-18 months.
Tickets are still available from our ticket shop, see https://pretix.sysmocom.de/sysmocom/osmocon2018/, and community discount vouchers are also still availble.
See you at OsmoCon 2018 on October 18+19, 2018!
Added by fixeria over 5 years ago
During this summer we have been working on the project, and despite the lack of time (daily job, traveling, etc.), some important features were introduced, so we are happy to highlight them.
First of all, the project has it's own wiki now, as well as a separate bug/feature tracker. For a long time, there was only a single page with brief description within the OsmocomBB project wiki. Having a dedicated project in Redmine, we are able to provide well structured description and documentation for our milestones. Kudos to Harald Welte!
A few weeks ago, the first milestone has been completed - "Ability to run GSM network on any frequency"! We have managed to run a GSM network in 2.4 GHz WiFi band, connect an SDR-based phone and successfully tested the regular subscriber's activity, such as SMS messaging and voice calls. More details about this feature will be shared soon.
There was a lot of work at the front of audio integration (see https://osmocom.org/versions/133). TCH/H channel coding implementation (see https://osmocom.org/issues/3419) in trxcon has been sent for review. In addition to Full Rate (GSM FR codec) speech, both HR (Half Rate) and EFR (Enhanced Full Rate) codecs are supported as well now! At the moment, all changes related to audio support in OsmocomBB can be found in a separate branch: https://git.osmocom.org/osmocom-bb/log/?h=fixeria/audio
Work on frequency hopping is also ongoing. Up to this point we used OsmoTRX for the purpose of testing of new features in the real world. As OsmoTRX currently doesn't support frequency hopping, we needed to find something else to test this functionality. For this purpose we hooked our mobile station to a Racal 6103E tester (kudos to Sylvain Munaut) that has support for frequency hopping, and currently it is possible to perform location registration and assignment of a traffic channel with it.
Added by laforge almost 6 years ago
At https://pretalx.sysmocom.de/osmocon2018/schedule/, the first draft schedule for OsmoCon 2018. the annual Open Source Mobile Communications Conference has been released!
It includes many exciting talks from key Osmocom developers and users. Among the key highlights are:
Use the opportunity until August 31st to get your discounted early bird ticket at https://pretix.sysmocom.de/sysmocom/osmocon2018/
We do have a number of community discount ticket vouchers available.
Stay tuned for further schedule updates, and see you in two months at OsmoCon 2018!
Added by laforge almost 6 years ago
The Osmocom project (if you count its predecessor OpenBSC) have been running for close to 10 years, creating a large number of Open Source projects related to mobile communications. We have never needed nor wanted any legal entity for it. It's a pure/classic FOSS project, open to contributions from anyone.
Until today, you could only contribute in one of the following forms:
However, we've repeatedly getting requests from some individuals who wanted to contribute to the project in an easy way, even if they are not a developer, and/or don't have time, and/or don't have the size of a budget to fund development of entire new features or sub-systems.
Today, Osmocom announces that we have joined Open Collective in order to enable you to make financial contributions, either one-off or recurring.
We'll be using the funds (if we get any!) according to our funding policy outlined at https://opencollective.com/osmocom/expenses/new# in order to pay for expenses such as hosting costs for our servers / IT infrastructure, travel funding for the annual developer conferences, etc. Any and all expenses paid from those funds will be visible on the OpenCollective website. You cannot ask for more transparency than that :)
Thanks in advance for your kind assistance!
Added by laforge almost 6 years ago
one of the difficulties with OsmoCon2017 last year was that almost nobody submitted talks / discussions within the deadline, early enough to allow for proper planning.
This lead to the situation where the sysmocom team had to come up with a schedule/agenda on their own. Later on much after the CfP deadline,people then squeezed in talks, making the overall schedule too full.
It is up to you to avoid this situation again in 2018 at OsmoCon2018 by submitting your talk RIGHT NOW. We will be very strict regarding late submissions. So if you would like to shape the Agenda of OsmoCon 2018, this is your chance. Please use it.
We will have to create a schedule soon, as [almost] nobody will register to a conference unless the schedule is known. If there's not sufficient contribution in terms of CfP response from the wider community, don't complain later that 90% of the talks are from sysmocom team members and only about the Cellular Network Infrastructure topics.
You have been warned. Please make your CfP submission in time at https://pretalx.sysmocom.de/osmocon2018/cfp before the CfP deadline on 2018-05-30 23:59 (Europe/Berlin)
Thanks for your kind attention.
Added by laforge about 6 years ago
The deadline of the Call for Participation (CfP) to the OsmoCon2018 has been extended by two weeks.
This means you still have time until May 30, 2018 to submit your proposal and meet us in October 2018 to talk about your experience, or to share your ideas about Open Source Mobile Communications.
You can find our CfP at https://pretalx.sysmocom.de/osmocon2018/cfp
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