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h1. Replicant contributors meeting the 27,28 July in France 

 h2. Details 

 *Date:* 27,28 July 

 h2. Location 

 The event will take place in the "April":https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/April_(French_association) "offices":https://april.org/en/contact-us. April is an association for the defense and promotion of free software. 

 The offices are relatively close to the "Gare Montparnasse railway station.":https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gare_Montparnasse 

 In addition to trains, Gare Montparnasse railway station has also, in the same building, a metro station where you can access the metro lines 4, 6, 12 and 13. 

 h3. Airports 

 The two main airports near Paris are the "Roissy Charles de Gaulle International Airport":https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_de_Gaulle_International_Airport and the "Paris Orly Airport":https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orly_Airport. 

 

 h2. More information 

 "Wikivoyage":https://en.wikivoyage.org has a page on "Paris":https://en.wikivoyage.org/wiki/Paris and "France":https://en.wikivoyage.org/wiki/France which have many practical information such as: 
 * Visa and other border requirements 
 * How to stay safe 
 * The climate 
 * Information on the public transportation 
 * SIM cards 

 It also has pages on the "Roissy Charles de Gaulle International Airport":https://en.wikivoyage.org/wiki/Paris_Charles_de_Gaulle_Airport and the "Paris Orly Airport":https://en.wikivoyage.org/wiki/Paris_Orly_Airport. 

 

 h2. Still being defined, to be confirmed 

 Precise schedule: 
 *Saturday:* Noon -> Night? 
 *Sunday:* 9H or 10H AM -> 14H? 

 Presentations?: 
 * The Graphic stack in Replicant 9 
 * The modem stack on Replicant supported smartphones and tablets by Denis Carikli? 
 * Booting on the devices supported by Replicant 
 ** Issues related to proprietary bootloader like s-boot 
 * Porting Replicant to Android 9 by Joonas Kylmälä? 
 * A discussion about [[Upstream]] components, [[Upstream#Design-decisions|design choices]], and cultural re-appropriation of technology? 
 ** How subjective security is, threat models, and the difference between free software and device maker point of view 
 ** Sharing work with GNU/Linux to enable more political control and cultural re-appropriation of mobile device in the long run, and the risk associated with it 
 ** Android upstream anti-features and political design choices 
 ** Issues when combining together different build systems (Example: Android build system with Kconfig)