17 February 2022

8 PM UTC - last haker standing

• Dasharo OSF vPub Matrix room in Dasharo Workspace (Matrix) with embedded Jitsi conference using Element. Following configuration similar to virtual FOSDEM, we added integration of Jitsi to our Dasharo OSF vPub Matrix channel. If you don't have Matrix account, here is a quick guide on how to get started with Element & Matrix or feel free to use Jitsi directly (link below).
• Jitsi Conference Link - please click to join Jitsi audio (optional video) conference via web browser or mobile app
• Dasharo Workspace (Matrix) - join #dasharo-osf-vpub:matrix.org optional Matrix channel for text chat
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4th edition of vPub is approaching! We will be discussing lots of interesting topics with many great guests!

vPub schedule

19:30 - 19:50 - Channel open for testing

19:50 - 20:00 - Welcome to vPub

20:00 - 20:10 - Dennis Marttinen will introduce us to Racklet project.

20:10 - 20:30 - Q&A: Racklet

20:30 - 21:00 - Open Discussion

21:00 - 21:10 - Michiel Leenaars will give us short introduction to Technology Commons Trust as a vehicle for open source firmware and hardware crowdfunding.

21:10 - 21:30 - Q&A: Open source firmware and hardware crowdfunding

21:30 - 22:00 - Open Discussion

22:00 - 22:10 - Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton will dive into comparative debugging for libre-soc by deliberately tracking microwatt source and unit tests.

22:10 - 22:30 - Q&A: LibreSoC and Microwatt

22:30 - 23:00 - Open Discussion

23:00 - 23:10 - Daniel Maslowski will let us know about current status of oreboot project.

23:10 - 23:30 - Q&A: oreboot

23:30 - 00:00 - Open Discussion

00:00 - 01:00 - Discussion with Richard Stallman about Respect Your Freedom Certification

01:00 - 01:10 - Felix Singer and tonux will explain how open source firmware community can benefit from GSoC 2022.

01:10 - 01:30 - Q&A: GSoC 2022 for open source firmware

01:30 - last haker standing - Open Discussion; Crowdfunding of open source firmware distribution for modern platforms; Public review of the open letter draft to open the Intel ACMs code; Open source firmware distribution through fwupd/LVFS; Dasharo project statuses: KGPE-D16; OpenPOWER; Dell OptiPlex; PC Engines apu2; modern laptops support NovaCustom; OpenSecurityTraining2 reward system plans and ideas; Recent advancements in Root of Trust technologies (MS Pluton announcements, TrenchBoot project status)

Ongoing call for participation

At any time feel free to send us suggestions to following sections in form of pull requests/issues or through messages on Dasharo OSF vPub Matrix channel.

Slides

Slides from the event are available here.