How do you solve a problem like iOS?
327 | Sat 02 Aug 5:30 p.m.–6:15 p.m.
Presented by
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Stephen Paul Weber
@singpolyma
https://singpolyma.net
Stephen is a long-time software freedom enthusiast, semi-retired from industry to focus on promoting freedomware solutions to problems faced by everyday people. Stephen currently helps run the Soprani.ca project and the related JMP.chat freedomware-based telephony provider.
Stephen Paul Weber
@singpolyma
https://singpolyma.net
Abstract
The user experience of those trapped in the Apple ecosystem has for years been a problem for the open source XMPP community. Not many community developers use that ecosystem, and so little development and testing goes towards it. After all we want to use freedomware operating systems on all our devices!
Yet it remains an issue because, as a communications network, many people have friends and family they wish to connect with who use Apple devices. Not having a good, freedom-respecting solution for those people means they often feel pulled towards proprietary walled gardens instead in order to be able to communicate.
I have been working on this problem for some time and will detail my approach using standard technologies to close most of this gap without any Apple devices at all, the benefits of an extensible standard like XMPP on achieving this, and how this might help other communities as well.
The user experience of those trapped in the Apple ecosystem has for years been a problem for the open source XMPP community. Not many community developers use that ecosystem, and so little development and testing goes towards it. After all we want to use freedomware operating systems on all our devices! Yet it remains an issue because, as a communications network, many people have friends and family they wish to connect with who use Apple devices. Not having a good, freedom-respecting solution for those people means they often feel pulled towards proprietary walled gardens instead in order to be able to communicate. I have been working on this problem for some time and will detail my approach using standard technologies to close most of this gap without any Apple devices at all, the benefits of an extensible standard like XMPP on achieving this, and how this might help other communities as well.