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DESCRIPTION:You own your radio. The protocols you use — AX.25 and APRS 
 — are open standards anyone can implement. But the software your club de
 pends on? That's often a different story.\n\nFor the security-minded: this
  is a story about critical communication infrastructure running on softwar
 e whose source code doesn't exist.\n\nAmateur radio has a long tradition o
 f self-reliance: building your own antennas\, maintaining your own gear\, 
 understanding your own stack. That tradition breaks down at the software l
 ayer. Too much of the tooling that holds the hobby together is maintained 
 by a single developer\, distributed as a closed binary\, with no source co
 de and no succession plan. We've already seen what happens when that devel
 oper is gone: When Roger Barker G4IDE passed in 2004\, UI-View32's source 
 code went with him — leaving the community to maintain unofficial workar
 ounds rather than fix the underlying binary\, with the registration server
 s eventually going dark. Bob Bruninga WB4APR's death in 2022 raised the sa
 me question for his reference APRS implementations and the aprs.org site h
 e maintained. These aren't edge cases — they're a pattern\, and the hobb
 y's aging demographics make it one we can't ignore.\n\nThis talk makes the
  case that open-source licensing isn't just a software philosophy — it's
  an infrastructure resilience strategy. If a tool is critical to your club
 's operations or your emergency net\, its source code needs to outlive its
  author.\n\nAs a working example\, we'll look at open-packet: an early-sta
 ge\, MIT-licensed packet messaging client in Python — a working existenc
 e proof that the open-source path is viable. A brief live demo will show t
 he basic functionality\, along with some nice to have extras such as visua
 l themes and a web client.\n\nAttendees will leave with a concrete lens fo
 r evaluating the software they depend on\, a GitHub link\, and three speci
 fic asks — from "try it" to "apply this thinking to every tool in your s
 hack."
DTSTAMP:20260726T103057Z
LOCATION:Ham Radio Village (W321)
SUMMARY:Who Owns Your Shack? Open Source\, Amateur Radio\, and the Software
  We Can't Afford to Lose - Jeremy Banker - K0JLB
URL:https://cfp.hamvillage.org/dc34/talk/3BC7DL/
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