Bart Ribbers (PureTryOut)
🏢 What am I doing?
- General package maintenance
- Maintaining KDE Plasma and everything related to it in pmOS/Alpine, including general desktop stuff like PipeWire
🤔 What am I thinking about?
- Building a private and trustworthy operating system for everyone to use no matter their preferences
😍 What do I enjoy?
- Seeing how the Linux desktop modernizes and improves and applying such improvements to my own installations and systems
- Going to open-source related conferences like FOSDEM and KDE Akademy to meet like-minded people
💬 Where can you find me?
Caleb Connolly (calebccff)
🏢 What am I doing?
- Maintaining Snapdragon 845 devices
- U-Boot development for Qualcomm platforms
- Device bringup and kernel development
- Improving tooling and debugging features
- Building CI 😵💫
- Occasionally funnyposting on the @postmarketOS fediverse account
🤔 What am I thinking about?
- Developer experience and tooling
- Community building
- Doing immutability without making development and tinkering harder
- Whatever this week's annoying driver bug is
😍 What do I enjoy?
- Hacking on hardware bringup
- Getting new features working and having people actually be able to use them
- Being part of such a fun community of folks building all kinds of things
💬 Where can you find me?
Clayton Craft (craftyguy)
🏢 What am I doing?
- Working full time on postmarketOS
- Fostering the amazing community
- Helping to maintain a few things around here
- Trying to be a zero
🤔 What am I thinking about?
- Can we make something I can give to my favorite humans, without feeling gross about it?
- Let's put postmarketOS on everything! Laptops, phones, desktops, tablets, smart watches, TVs, …
- Does anyone on chat have an interesting problem?
😍 What do I enjoy?
- Helping others
- Fixing stuff
- Finishing stuff
- Learning new things
- Free software, of course
💬 Where can you find me?
Dylan Van Assche (dylanvanassche)
🏢 What am I doing?
- Reverse engineering things like VoLTE, Bluetooth HFP, Qualcomm sensors, etc.
- Helping with improving community and main devices like Fairphone 4/5 and SDM845 devices
- Working on middleware: PipeWire, fwupd, ModemManager, iio-sensor-proxy, etc.
🤔 What am I thinking about?
- How to provide privacy-respecting services essential for the complete phone user experience by self-hosting or working with other trusted providers (geolocation, A-GPS data, connectivity check, DNS, etc.)
Luca Weiss (z3ntu)
🏢 What am I doing?
- Maintaining infrastructure, like the postmarketOS server and everything that entails
- Mainline kernel development and maintenance for many SoCs (msm8226, msm8974, sm6350, sc7280, and sometimes msm8953)
- Adding eSIM support via lpac and building a mobile-friendly UI to manage them.
- Maintaining 100+ packages in Alpine Linux
🤔 What am I thinking about?
- Expanding my knowledge sharing with longer-form blog posts and videos like the mainlining.dev blog
- Improving the user experience around installing postmarketOS from clarifying installation instructions to improving the installer and webflasher
😍 What do I enjoy?
- Improving device functionality in upstream: upstreaming existing code and adding new functionality
💬 Where can you find me?
Oliver Smith (ollieparanoid)
🏢 What am I doing?
- Started postmarketOS in 2016, published it in 2017
- Hacking, mostly on pmbootstrap, build.postmarketos.org, and pmaports
- Making postmarketOS releases
- Reviewing code and helping with issues as I find time :)
- Co-maintaining the infrastructure
- Creative things:
- (Co-)writing blog posts
- Running the postmarketOS podcast
- Making shirts and stickers
- Various organizational tasks
🤔 What am I thinking about?
- Getting postmarketOS ready for non-experts (while still keeping it fun for hackers!)
- Building a friendly and respectful community
- Contributing towards a healthy, wider Linux (Mobile) ecosystem
- How to not be a part of the attention economy and helping towards fixing the climate crisis
😍 What do I enjoy?
- Running postmarketOS with mainline Linux on my phone and laptop
- Getting into a flow state while coding or doing a creative task
- Meeting people through conferences, Jitsi calls, or the podcast and talking about free software
- Seeing what amazing things people are doing with postmarketOS (it is incredibly inspiring!)
💬 Where can you find me?
Pablo Correa Gómez (pabloyoyoista)
🏢 What am I doing?
- Coordinating and planning around the project priorities
- Searching and applying for grants, including helping others with it
- Meeting different people in the ecosystem, networking and looking for opportunities for postmarketOS
- Maintaining GNOME in alpine and in postmarketOS, including the social aspect of collaborating with their community, and improving on integration
🤔 What am I thinking about?
- How to organically grow and finance postmarketOS as a pioneer of Linux on Mobile, including governance, legal, economical, and community affairs
- How to build sustaining, effective, and long-term relationships with related FOSS projects
😍 What do I enjoy?
- Talking with people about social issues around FOSS and interactions with communities
- The usually-abandoned business side of FOSS
- Debugging issues and fixing compatibility problems between upstreams and us
💬 Where can you find me?
- 📧 pabloyoyoista@postmarketos.org
@pabloyoyoista
@pabloyoyoista@social.treehouse.systems
@pabloyoyoista:matrix.org
Stefan Hansson (Newbyte)
🏢 What am I doing?
- Maintaining Phosh and GNOME in Alpine
- Triaging and resolving reported issues — as much as I can at least! 😅
- Other improvements as I get inspired
🤔 What am I thinking about?
- How to turn postmarketOS into a reliable production system
😍 What do I enjoy?
- Writing code!
- Fixing usability problems that bug me in
pmbootstrap - Low-level kernel development — Just starting out with this!
- Fixing bugs I encounter in other software projects
💬 Where can you find me?