eloop 2025

1 November 2025
c-base Berlin

14:00
UTC+1

c-base, Rungestr. 20, 10179 Berlin
5 minutes walk from S+U Jannowitzbrücke

The eloop 2025 conference featured an outstanding program of talks showcasing high-quality contributions, clear technical vision, and consistently strong execution. We extend our sincere thanks to all speakers and authors for their participation, preparation, and commitment to delivering a cohesive and impactful conference experience. Their contributions form the foundation of the proceedings presented here.

Schedule

TimeDescription
13:00 Meet @ponte for lunch
14:00 Doors
15:00 Welcome speech
15:30 Opening talk: How to write papers
16:00 Conference paper talks

Proceedings

This website serves as the authoritative digital repository for the eloop 2025 conference proceedings, providing streamlined and reliable access to the complete collection of accepted papers. Each contribution is professionally archived and made available in PDF format, ensuring consistent, long-term availability of the research, insights, and outputs presented during the 2025 edition of the conference.

Unless explicitly stated otherwise, the content published in these proceedings has been generated by artificial intelligence systems in accordance with the official submission guidelines of the conference. This policy reflects a deliberate design choice: minimizing human-induced variability and error in favor of the consistency, reproducibility, and operational reliability offered by computer-generated content.

Together, these proceedings constitute the official record of eloop 2025, consolidating the conference’s intellectual output into a single, enterprise-grade platform for researchers, practitioners, and stakeholders seeking to engage with its results at scale.

Enterprise Fax in 2025: A Strategic Assessment for Risk, Continuity and Transition

riot (Institute for Modern Fax (IfMF))

PDF · 8 pages

This position paper / conference talk transcript provides a strategic review of the role of fax technology in enterprises in 2025. We synthesize historical context, current usage patterns, security posture, regulatory drivers, and present a pragmatic transition roadmap. The goal is to equip executives, legal teams, and IT architects with concrete recommendations that balance compliance, operational continuity and modernization velocity.

Cite 
@inproceedings{riot2025,
  author    = {riot},
  title     = {Enterprise Fax in 2025: A Strategic Assessment for Risk, Continuity and Transition},
  booktitle = {Proceedings of eloop 2025},
  year      = {2025},
  address   = {Berlin, Germany},
  numpages  = {8},
  url       = {https://eloop.org/static/pdf/riot2025.pdf},
}

Lindy Hieroglyphs: Ancient Scripts as a Durable Alternative to Modern Emojis

kmein (independent researcher)

PDF · 7 pages

Digital expression increasingly relies on ephemeral, proprietary symbol sets such as emojis. Despite their popularity, these icons are controlled by centralized entities and subject to rapid cultural decay. This paper argues that Unicode hieroglyphs—representations of ancient scripts such as Egyptian and Anatolian—offer a more durable and decentralized medium for symbolic communication. Drawing on the Lindy effect, which states that the expected future life of non-perishable entities is proportional to their current age, we show that ancient writing systems possess far greater temporal resilience than corporate iconography.

We examine the technical foundations that make hieroglyphs practical for everyday digital use: modern Unicode coverage, the Noto font family, and tools for character entry such as unicodmenu and UnicodePad. We also analyze expressive affordances unavailable to modern emoji due to moderation constraints. Finally, we highlight aesthetic and cultural advantages inherent in using ancient scripts, advocating for their adoption as a “Lindy-compliant” symbolic layer for human communication.

Cite 
@inproceedings{kmein2025,
  author    = {kmein},
  title     = {Lindy Hieroglyphs: Ancient Scripts as a Durable Alternative to Modern Emojis},
  booktitle = {Proceedings of eloop 2025},
  year      = {2025},
  address   = {Berlin, Germany},
  numpages  = {7},
  url       = {https://eloop.org/static/pdf/kmein2025.pdf},
}

Modern Voucher Logistics

lassulus (krebs)

PDF · 6 pages

We present an informal but structured exploration of voucher-based economies, with particular focus on replicating vouchers, lineage growth, and trust-based distribution networks. We analyze why such systems resist direct financial monetization, how social value emerges as the dominant utility, and how operational bottlenecks and trust assumptions shape real-world outcomes.

Cite 
@inproceedings{lassulus2025,
  author    = {lassulus},
  title     = {Modern Voucher Logistics},
  booktitle = {Proceedings of eloop 2025},
  year      = {2025},
  address   = {Berlin, Germany},
  numpages  = {6},
  url       = {https://eloop.org/static/pdf/lassulus2025.pdf},
}

Width Ambiguity in Terminal Text Rendering: Practical Implications for Interface Consistency

Kenji Berthold (krebs)

PDF · 6 pages

Terminal-based user interfaces continue to underpin a large share of operational, monitoring, and developer tooling. Yet, even in 2025, the reliable measurement of on-screen text width remains elusive. This paper investigates inconsistencies in text rendering across terminal emulators and execution environments, emphasizing their impact on alignment-sensitive applications such as dashboards, diagnostics, and data visualizers. We identify sources of deviation, evaluate their magnitude, and propose pragmatic mitigation strategies for enterprise software systems.

Cite 
@inproceedings{berthold2025,
  author    = {Kenji Berthold},
  title     = {Width Ambiguity in Terminal Text Rendering: Practical Implications for Interface Consistency},
  booktitle = {Proceedings of eloop 2025},
  year      = {2025},
  address   = {Berlin, Germany},
  numpages  = {6},
  url       = {https://eloop.org/static/pdf/berthold2025.pdf},
}

Call for papers

Please follow the submission guidelines at github.com/zmberber/eloop2025. Please send your submissions to berber@c-base.org.

Deadlines

Board of Directors

Review Committee