NGI0: Next Generation Internet@NGIZero

Adrian Georgescu was part of the Voice over IP revolution & in this episode you'll learn much about that history and the Session Initiation Protocol (SIP). With his company AG projects, he created Blink, a SIP client developed in parallel with the creation of SIP by the IETF & Sylk Suite which enabled multi-party video conferencing harnessing WebRTC.
He also talks about what it's like to run a FOSS company and having to compete with Big Tech offering services for free and much more.

"It is important to be able to communicate freely", says Jérôme Poisson a.k.a. @Goffi@mastodon.social He is the main developer of Libervia, a communication ecosystem based on #XMPP. The open standard is mostly associated with chat but Libervia offers many more features such as blogs, fora, calendars and file & photo sharing. It has gateways to other open protocols like #ActivityPub and email.

“Can you really speak of a program being free software if you cannot bootstrap it?”, says our guest Janneke. He is the founder of GNU Mes, a project addressing the security concerns that arise from bootstrapping an operating system using large, unauditable binary blobs.

One of the issues with today’s internet is that a lot of data is siloed. Consequently, users are locked into Big Tech ecosystems and its hard to reuse data. Joep Meinderstma talks about how his project Atomic Data, a modular specification for sharing, modifying and modeling data, addresses this problem.