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@@ -109,8 +109,10 @@ const slides = [
section: 'Intro',
kicker: 'Nick Danner · systems tinkerer & radio nerd',
title: 'OpenSquawk',
subtitle: 'Trying to share aviation awareness in the open',
text: ['Thanks for giving a small indie builder your attention for the next 45 minutes.'],
subtitle: 'Open-source AI ATC for home flight simulation',
text: [
'Thanks for lending a solo builder 45 minutes to walk through the vision, the research, and the work in progress.'
],
fullscreenPrompt: true,
note: 'Press F or use the button to enter fullscreen whenever you like.'
},
@@ -120,8 +122,8 @@ const slides = [
text: ['Nick Danner—systems tinkerer & radio nerd based in Hamburg.'],
bullets: [
"Still figuring out public speaking—thanks for the patience tonight.",
'One-person systems engineer who loves turning radio noise into context.',
'Working from a tiny desk, a stack of SDRs, and a lot of coffee.'
'One-person systems engineer turning radio noise into context for sim pilots.',
'Working from a tiny desk, a stack of SDRs, and plenty of curiosity.'
],
footer: 'nick.danner@opensquawk.dev · @nickcodes'
},
@@ -129,47 +131,59 @@ const slides = [
section: 'Intro',
title: "Why I'm sharing tonight",
bullets: [
'This is my first open-source repo-guidance on structure and tone would mean a lot.',
'Need reality checks: does the event model map to how your ops actually work?',
'Curious how you approach starting and sustaining open projects.',
"If nothing else, I'd love stories about what to avoid."
'Pressure-test the roadmap before opening the code later this evening.',
'Validate whether the unscripted AI ATC vision maps to real ops expectations.',
'Collect stories on starting and sustaining open aviation tech projects.',
"If nothing else, learn what traps to dodge from folks who have been there."
]
},
{
section: 'Intro',
title: 'What I hope OpenSquawk becomes',
title: 'What OpenSquawk is aiming for',
bullets: [
'Make it lightweight enough for hobbyists yet useful for ops desks.',
'Assume contributors will outsmart me, so make experiments easy.'
'Pipeline: Speech-to-Text → domain-tuned LLM → Text-to-Speech, all runnable on a home rig.',
'Open architecture that lets hobbyists and ops desks inspect every decision.',
'Clear guardrails so experimental automation never hides its reasoning.'
]
},
{
section: 'Story',
title: 'What felt broken in that room',
title: 'Why this matters',
bullets: [
'Important changes lived in separate chats, PDFs, and whispered heads-ups.',
'Nobody wanted another silo, but nobody had time to stitch the feeds together.',
'Everyone around me knew far more than I did—we just lacked shared tooling.'
'Real pilots practise with networks like VATSIM, yet coverage gaps remain for everyday flying.',
'Built-in sim ATC is still rigid: limited phraseology, no real voice, and little regional nuance.',
'Community keeps asking for affordable, always-on AI ATC without vendor lock-in.'
],
quote: 'We trust the data. We just never see it in the same place when it matters.'
},
{
section: 'Story',
title: "Why I couldn't let it go",
title: 'What the market already offers',
bullets: [
'Open data projects exist, yet wiring them into live ops feels intimidating.',
'I wanted to try building a gentle starting point and ask smarter people for help.'
'SayIntentions.AI: cloud-first, subscription, ~88k airports, rich features yet tough monthly pricing.',
'BeyondATC: one-time license, hybrid rule engine plus offline LLM for natural dialogue and traffic.',
'FSHud & Pilot2ATC: reliable rule-based control with menus or strict grammars slowly adding voice.',
'Open-source attempts like Red Griffin ATC or BlueSky stop short of full STT→LLM→TTS pipelines.'
],
image: 'https://picsum.photos/seed/opensquawk-airfield/1200/675',
imageAlt: 'placeholder photo of a small airfield at dawn with soft light',
imageCredit: 'Photo placeholder via Lorem Picsum'
},
{
section: 'Story',
title: 'Lessons learned from those teams',
bullets: [
'Cloud-native AI ATC faces brutal recurring costs; offline-first keeps the lights on.',
'Hybrid architectures—rules for separation, LLMs for phrasing—balance realism and safety.',
'Traffic management matters as much as speech; users notice when sequencing fails.'
]
},
{
section: 'Vision',
title: 'So… what is OpenSquawk?',
text: [
"It's my first attempt at an open-source stream that listens to public ATC audio, turns it into events, and shares them in real time.",
'Think of it as a community-friendly way to watch the same timeline without vendor lock-in.'
"It's an open-source AI ATC toolkit for simulators like MSFS and X-Plane.",
'It listens to pilot audio, interprets intent with a domain model, and responds using authentic radio phraseology.'
]
},
{
@@ -182,7 +196,7 @@ const slides = [
},
{
heading: 'Helpful',
items: ['Deliver context quickly instead of burying people in dashboards.']
items: ['Deliver context quickly without burying people in dashboards.']
},
{
heading: 'Welcoming',
@@ -194,20 +208,20 @@ const slides = [
section: 'Vision',
title: 'Principles keeping me honest',
bullets: [
'Plain-text configs and readable event schemas first.',
'If automation acts, it leaves a trail you can replay.',
'APIs I use internally stay the same ones everyone else gets.',
'Shipping slowly is fine if the community understands what exists.'
'Plain-text configs and transparent event schemas first.',
'If automation acts, it leaves a replayable trail.',
'APIs used internally stay the ones everyone else gets.',
'Ship small slices so the community always sees the current reality.'
]
},
{
section: 'Progress',
title: 'Pieces already moving / What already runs (on a good day)',
title: 'What already runs (on a good day)',
bullets: [
'Transcribes six European frequencies with Whisper small on a home lab GPU.',
'Fetches NOTAM and METAR updates into a shared event bus every minute.',
'Tags events with a lightweight rules engine so people know why something pinged.',
'Shows a humble dashboard that streams a timeline for testing together.'
'Local Whisper small prototype transcribes six European frequencies with <1.5 s latency.',
'NOTAM & METAR polling feeds a shared event bus every minute.',
'Lightweight rule engine tags events with context for experimentation.',
'Early Nuxt dashboard streams a shared timeline for remote testers.'
],
image: 'https://picsum.photos/seed/opensquawk-dashboard/1200/675',
imageAlt: 'placeholder photo of dashboard screens glowing with charts',
@@ -217,17 +231,18 @@ const slides = [
section: 'Progress',
title: 'Where it still creaks',
bullets: [
'Radio front-ends need more shielding—busy nights still spike noise.',
'Temporal workflows recover slowly when a transcription job stalls.',
'Docs lag behind features, so first-time setup still feels brittle.'
'RF front-ends need better shielding—busy nights still swamp the signal.',
'Temporal workflows restart slowly when a transcription job stalls.',
'Docs and setup scripts lag behind features, so onboarding feels brittle.'
]
},
{
section: 'Progress',
title: 'Reality check & open questions',
bullets: [
'How to keep costs friendly if community radios scale up?',
"What have I overlooked completely? I'd love blunt feedback."
'How do we keep compute costs friendly as community radios scale?',
'Which separation rules are essential for a credible first release?',
'Where can we source and license ATC dialogue data for finetuning?'
]
},
{
@@ -237,22 +252,22 @@ const slides = [
{
heading: 'Capture',
items: [
'Edge radios publish Opus audio over QUIC to a small relay.',
'Scheduled scrapers pull NOTAM and METAR diffs about every 60 seconds.'
'Community SDR nodes push Opus audio via QUIC relays.',
'Scheduled scrapers pull NOTAM & METAR diffs roughly every 60 seconds.'
]
},
{
heading: 'Decode',
items: [
'Whisper small-v3 handles multilingual transcripts on consumer GPUs.',
'Keyword matcher spots callsigns, runway states, and weather codes.'
'Error-correction layer normalises callsigns, runway states, and weather codes.'
]
},
{
heading: 'Enrich',
heading: 'Decide',
items: [
'Temporal database stitches events with aircraft position feeds.',
'Geo-fencing adds airport and sector context on the fly.'
'Hybrid rules + LLM decide clearances while checking traffic constraints.',
'Temporal data store links transcripts with aircraft positions and airspace.'
]
},
{
@@ -268,16 +283,16 @@ const slides = [
{
heading: 'Ingestion & compute',
items: [
'Rust microservices handle radio capture and buffering.',
'Python workers orchestrated by Temporal for transcription jobs.',
'Go-based enrichment service with gRPC interfaces.'
'Rust capture agents buffer radio frames and handle QUIC uplinks.',
'Python workers on Temporal coordinate Whisper inference and post-processing.',
'Domain-tuned 7B-class LLM served via llama.cpp with structured prompts.'
]
},
{
heading: 'Data & storage',
items: [
'Apache Kafka for event streaming with exactly-once semantics.',
'Materialize for low-latency materialized views.',
'Kafka or Redpanda for event streaming with exactly-once semantics.',
'DuckDB + Materialize-style views for low-latency querying.',
'PostgreSQL for metadata, Supabase for auth and row-level security.'
]
},
@@ -285,13 +300,17 @@ const slides = [
heading: 'Experience layer',
items: [
'Nuxt 4 SPA served via edge CDN.',
'Tailwind + custom visual language for readability in dim ops rooms.',
'Tailwind + custom visual language tuned for dim ops rooms.',
'OpenAPI-defined endpoints with generated TypeScript clients.'
]
},
{
heading: 'Ops & tooling',
items: ['Nix flakes for deterministic builds.', 'GitHub Actions pipelines with ephemeral staging environments.', 'Grafana Cloud for metrics and alerting.']
items: [
'Nix flakes for deterministic builds.',
'GitHub Actions pipelines with ephemeral staging environments.',
'Grafana Cloud + Loki for metrics and transcript retention.'
]
}
]
},
@@ -299,7 +318,7 @@ const slides = [
section: 'Tech',
title: 'Ingestion focus',
bullets: [
'Multi-tenant radio capture agents publish Opus streams over QUIC.',
'Multi-tenant capture agents publish Opus streams over QUIC with auto gain control.',
'Temporal workflows batch frames into 20-second jobs for transcription.',
'Language detection auto-selects acoustic models per frequency.',
'Manual review UI appears when confidence dips below 70%.'
@@ -330,7 +349,7 @@ const slides = [
title: 'DX and docs hopes',
bullets: [
'Devcontainer scripts spin up the stack with sample data in under five minutes.',
'Storybook-style playground for testing rule evaluations.',
'Playground UI exercises rule evaluations and TTS voices.',
'Observability dashboards versioned alongside the code.',
'Docs site built with Nuxt Content—PRs preview instantly via GitHub Actions.'
]
@@ -339,9 +358,9 @@ const slides = [
section: 'Tech',
title: 'Keeping things safe-ish',
bullets: [
'End-to-end tests replay anonymized traffic nightly.',
'End-to-end tests replay anonymised traffic nightly.',
'OPA policies guard radio streams and redact sensitive fields.',
'Grafana Loki captures raw transcripts for 24 hours before purging.',
'Loki captures raw transcripts for 24 hours before purging.',
'Incident playbooks live in-repo with checklists and runbooks.'
]
},
@@ -350,7 +369,7 @@ const slides = [
title: 'Next few weeks',
bullets: [
'Expand capture network with five community-hosted radios in Spain and Portugal.',
'Release v0.2 of the rules DSL with a friendlier visual editor.',
'Release rules DSL v0.2 with a friendlier visual editor.',
'Ship first-class integration for the open-source EFB tool SkyPad.',
'Publish contribution guidelines and a lightweight governance RFC.'
],
@@ -389,7 +408,7 @@ const slides = [
section: 'Together',
title: 'Where I need the most help',
bullets: [
'This is my first open-source repo-feedback on structure and tone is gold to me.',
'Fresh eyes on repository structure, documentation tone, and accessibility.',
'Pointers to communities who might benefit would mean a lot.'
]
},