George Kiagiadakis

PipeWire has recently been adopted by Automotive Grade Linux for its implementation of the low-level platform audio service, replacing entirely previous solutions. Getting there had, of course, many challenges. In this talk, George is going to talk about how PipeWire has managed to overcome these challenges and has evolved to support automotive use cases and hardware through the design and implementation of a new, reusable, session & policy management component, WirePlumber.

In this talk we will present the technical challenges we have encountered while building an FM & web radio station from scratch and the innovative solutions that we have applied to them, utilizing open source software, and - where possible - hardware, as well as developing our own components, such as our software FM MPX signal generator, our producer-friendly GTK desktop application and many more. Furthermore, we will elaborate on the technical processes of building a music and sample library using open-source software and services, and how we utilize this library to produce an automated broadcast using our custom GStreamer-based audio clip scheduler.

The University of Crete (UoC) Radio Station is a non-profit, community-driven radio station developed primarily by students and alumni of the University of Crete, in the university’s campus. The station, as a community, is founded on the concepts of DIY and Open Source in all of its aspects, from the operation & organizational structure of the community to the very technical problems, where we choose to use open source, community-driven software, hardware and services and build things ourselves from scratch where it’s possible.

The current state of the Telepathy project and its vision for the future of real-time communication on the desktop.

Recent developments in the Telepathy project have brought it again on the front, after years of inactivity. In this talk we will look through what is going on in Telepathy recently and what are its plans for addressing real-time communication needs on the desktop.