How to bring fully distributed and secure communication capabilities to embedded products and IOT (Part 2). In a previous article, we presented our work on including Jami in Yocto. This was a huge step to make Jami available on all types of devices. But this Yocto layer was only usable for x86 architectures. In fact, […]
How to bring fully distributed and secure communication capabilities to embedded products and IOT (Part 1). Jami is a communication tool developed by Savoir-faire Linux. It is available for Windows, MacOS, standard Linux distribution like Ubuntu or Fedora and smartphones (Android and iOS). In order to give the opportunity to use Jami in embedded products […]
From July 28th to August 5th, one of our team members, Hugo Lefeuvre (also a Debian Developer on his free time), attended DebConf18, the annual Debian Developer’s Conference, in Hsinchu, Taiwan. During this week, Hugo spent time preparing and giving a talk about Ring, hacking on Debian packages, discussing free software communication and distributed networks with fellow developers and users. […]
Recently, our ‘AI Robotics Programming’ Team has delivered a proof-of-concept robot used to explore and map unknown industrial and residential spaces while identifying floor types. The robot (with the exception of its Roomba chassis) is fully built from open-source (OS) hardware and software components. The result is an elegant blend of genetic algorithms and neural […]
Savoir-faire Linux participated in the tenth edition of DrupalCamp Montréal, which was held this year at Concordia University. It was the occasion to catch up with a good proportion of the Drupal developer community in Montreal, to exchange ideas with other companies that work with this technology, and to have an overview of how Drupal […]
Push Notifications: A New Feature Added to Ring Project Push notifications are essential part of the effective end-user experience on mobile platforms. They tend to boost the app engagement and users find them useful and handy as they ease their communications. Although push notifications are widely considered an advantage for most apps, they are regarded […]
On February 3rd and 4th, two members of Ring’s development team took part in FOSDEM 2018 in Brussels. FOSDEM (Free and Open Source Software Developers’ European Meeting), a major event for free software developers, is held annually since 2000 during the first week-end of February at the Université libre de Bruxelles. Sébastien Blin, a Ring […]
Ring keeps surprising communication experts and enthusiasts! Ring is now available on Android TV box and other smart TVs. Ring has become the only communication software available on the Google Play Store for Android TVs, since the discontinuation of support for the TV version of Skype in June 2016. This new release is quite different […]
During August 5-12, we actively participated in DebConf17, in several professional capacities: platinum sponsor, presenter, workshop and career fair participant, as well as social event host. Debconf17 is the annual Debian Developers and Contributors Conference, with over 405 people […]
