http://x4.fo.am/taxonomy/term/396/0 en http://x4.fo.am/RG_07_09_bricophone <div class="event-nodeapi"><div class="event-start"><label>Start: </label>2007-09-28 12:00 <span class="tz">Europe/Brussels</span></div></div> <div class="event-nodeapi"><div class="event-end"><label>End: </label>2007-09-28 18:00 <span class="tz">Europe/Brussels</span></div></div> <p>An open call to all developers, artists and activists with and without mobile phones: the launch of the first Bricophone workshop - working towards the connected future of open source telephony.</p> <p>The Bricophone project aims to develop a low-cost Open-Source DIY and independent cellular telephony infrastructure for unequipped areas or special events. The Bricophone gathers different new hardware and software techniques to create a cheap, fast and easy-to-deploy independent cellular telephony infrastructure. The system doesn't use the actual telephony networks and economy and should include anti-control technologies. Open source hardware and open source software are an alternative to the technical, cultural, political and economical dependency to more and more powerful communication companies in the world.</p> <p>The principal actors of this open workshop are artists, activists, NGOs, developers and participants of the Bricolabs network. <a href="http://www.bricolabs.net" title="http://www.bricolabs.net">http://www.bricolabs.net</a></p> <p>Jean-Noël Montagné from Centre de Ressources Art Sensitif <a href="http://www.craslab.org" title="http://www.craslab.org">http://www.craslab.org</a> in Paris will present the Bricophone concepts. A cultural and technical workshop on the topic will follow the presentation, trying to organize the different technical and ethical roadmaps to launch the first hardware, software and communication works.</p> event brussels research gathering bricolabs mobile telephony Open Source Sat, 21 Jun 2008 13:55:58 +0000 maja 1404 at http://fo.am