postmarketOS // Who makes postmarketOS?

As a free and open-source software (FOSS) project, anyone can contribute to postmarketOS by submitting patches and taking part in discussions. There are a wide range of contributions that come from all corners of our amazing community. You too can contribute!

The Core Contributors and Trusted Contributors are listed below, for a detailed structure of our community see Groups and Teams.

All creatures welcome. Make sure to follow the Code of Conduct.

Core Contributors

Bart Ribbers (PureTryOut)

Pronouns: he/him

🏢 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?

Casey Connolly (kcxt)

Pronouns: she/her

🏢 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)

Pronouns: he/him

🏢 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?

Luca Weiss (z3ntu)

Pronouns: he/him

🏢 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)

Pronouns: he/him

🏢 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)

Pronouns: he/they

🏢 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?

Stefan Hansson (Newbyte)

Pronouns: he/him

🏢 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?

Trusted Contributors

Achill Gilgenast (fossdd)

Pronouns: he/him

🏢 What am I doing?

Maintaining GNOME, Phosh and many other related packages in Alpine Linux
Helping out & fixing issues between Alpine Linux and postmarketOS
Polishing up the systemd integration
Fixing various paper-cuts on various upstreams
Occasionally working on the Linux kernel

🤔 What am I thinking about?

Throwing a immutable postmarketOS on my grandma's laptop
Pushing postmarketOS into being more reliable & stable

😍 What do I enjoy?

To see your device running postmarketOS
Watching the Linux Mobile space develop and grow

💬 Where can you find me?

Alexey Minnekhanov (minlexx)

Pronouns: he/him

🏢 What am I doing?

Maintaining some Qualcomm SoC kernels and device ports
Working on Linux kernel and bootloaders
Maintaining plasma-discover apk integration
Occasionally reviewing merge requests
Testing releases and MRs on owned devices

🤔 What am I thinking about?

Stability — how to make things not break with each upgrade
Making a universal cross-platform postmarketOS installer that supports a wide variety of devices

😍 What do I enjoy?

When things are working as expected out of the box
Seeing more and more devices booting mainline Linux / U-Boot

💬 Where can you find me?

Anjan Momi (anjandev)

Pronouns: he/him

🏢 What am I doing?

Maintaining Sxmo
Maintaining Alpine Linux packages
Writing userspace applications for postmarketOS
Occasionally reviewing merge requests

🤔 What am I thinking about?

Improving userspace
Creating a hacker-friendly phone OS!
Promoting postmarketOS

😍 What do I enjoy?

Tools that are easy to use and follow the Unix philosophy
Free software!

💬 Where can you find me?

Anton Bambura (jenneron)

Pronouns: he/him

🏢 What am I doing?

Implementing the depthcharge bootloader support used on Chrome OS devices and other contributions related to Chrome OS devices
Maintaining and mainlining AYN Odin
Improving the boot process
Helping in the chat with Chromebooks
Responding to pmaports issues
Reviewing merge requests

🤔 What am I thinking about?

Making postmarketOS userspace more suitable for various form factors
Shipping full firmware and secondary bootloaders via fwupd

😍 What do I enjoy?

Automating things
Improving the user experience
Combining devices into generic ports

💬 Where can you find me?

@jenneron
@jenneron:matrix.org (find me in main and devel postmarketOS rooms)

Arnav Singh (arnavion)

Pronouns: he/him

🏢 What am I doing?

Maintaining support for the PinePhone.

🤔 What am I thinking about?

Making pmOS better.

😍 What do I enjoy?

Free and open-source software, also known as FOSS!

💬 Where can you find me?

@Arnavion
Arnavion on IRC

Aster Boese (justsoup)

Pronouns: they/he

🏢 What am I doing?

Solidifying systemd support
Implementing immutability
Maintaining Lomiri packages
Occasionally tinkering with the oneplus-fajita

🤔 What am I thinking about?

How to make pmOS easier to understand
How can Lomiri work better on Alpine

😍 What do I enjoy?

Packaging for Alpine
Programming in Rust

💬 Where can you find me?

Barnabás Czémán (barni2000)

Pronouns: he/him

🏢 What am I doing?

Maintaining some Qualcomm SoC kernels and device ports
Working on Linux kernel
Mainlining some Qualcomm SoC
Occasionally reviewing merge requests
Testing releases and MRs on owned devices

🤔 What am I thinking about?

How to make maintaining easier
How to reduce downstream ports

😍 What do I enjoy?

Porting postmarketOS to more device
Seeing more and more devices booting mainline Linux
Enabling more features time to time

💬 Where can you find me?

Dylan Van Assche (dylanvanassche)

Pronouns: he/him

🏢 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.)

Federico Amedeo Izzo (fizzo)

Pronouns: he/him

🏢 What am I doing?

Daily driving oneplus-enchilada and fixing the paper cuts I encounter
Porting postmarketOS to every Linux-based device I lay my hands on
Learning Rust so I can contribute to apps like Railway or phosh-ev

🤔 What am I thinking about?

Freeing my digital life from proprietary systems and services
Getting postmarketOS ready for more technical users

😍 What do I enjoy?

Sane defaults
Reducing power consumption of devices
Color calibration of screens

💬 Where can you find me?

Ferass El Hafidi (funderscore)

Pronouns: he/him

🏢 What am I doing?

Reviewing merge requests
Maintaining ports to Amlogic devices
Helping folks in the chat

🤔 What am I thinking about?

Bringing postmarketOS to set-top boxes
Liberating devices

😍 What do I enjoy?

Helping new users successfully boot postmarketOS — it's quite rewarding!
Running postmarketOS on my devices with FOSS boot firmware
Writing code
Interacting with friendly communities centered around postmarketOS!

💬 Where can you find me?

Henrik Grimler (Grimler)

Pronouns: he/him

🏢 What am I doing?

Reviewing merge requests
Maintaining ports to for Samsung devices
Helping (or confusing? 😅) people in the different chats
Trying to bring Linux to more Samsung Exynos devices (mostly Exynos 5420 with some work on Exynos 8895)
Maintain ports for Exynos 4 and Exynos 5 devices
Exploring the PCBs of different Exynos devices to find debug points and other useful connectors

🤔 What am I thinking about?

The different models and drivers for the Maxim family of fuel gauges and how to best support them for specific devices

😍 What do I enjoy?

Solving issues and making things work — there's nothing more satisfying than successfully booting Linux or a bootloader on a device!
Helping others improve their skill sets by sharing what I know
Learning about hardware and low-level things

💬 Where can you find me?

Hugo Osvaldo Barrera (WhyNotHugo)

Pronouns: he/him

🏢 What am I doing?

Working on pimsync.
Maintaining various ports (mostly upstream / Alpine ports).
Tweaking packages to work without eudev.

🤔 What am I thinking about?

Bootable images which run from /tmpfs.
Recovery mechanisms for when I break the system while tinkering.

😍 What do I enjoy?

Designing clean, simple solutions.
Sharing knowledge with others, helping solving problems, documenting things.
Fixing this upstream rather than keep local patches.

💬 Where can you find me?

📧 whynothugo.nl
🌐 https://whynothugo.nl
XMPP: hugo@whynothugo.nl
IRC: WhyNotHugo on libera.chat or OFTC
@whynothugo@fosstodon.org
@whynothugo

Jens Reidel (Adrian)

Pronouns: any

🏢 What am I doing?

Maintaining Qualcomm SM7150 devices
Kernel development and U-Boot bringup
Making more devices boot generic images
Improving musl support in the Rust compiler

🤔 What am I thinking about?

Ways to make mainlining more accessible
Formalizing approaches to generic device images

😍 What do I enjoy?

Hacking on weird hardware
Chatting with people about postmarketOS at conferences

💬 Where can you find me?

@Adrian
@gelbpunkt:matrix.org
@adrianyyy@chaos.social

knuxify

Pronouns: they/he

🏢 What am I doing?

Working on the postmarketOS wiki; making sure the docs are up-to-date, useful and easy to understand
Mainlining Broadcom Kona series chipsets (in pmOS soon!)
Co-maintaining the Exynos 4 close to mainline kernel fork
Occasionally tracking down bugs and regressions

🤔 What am I thinking about?

What do end users need/want from our documentation?
...trying to resist the urge to buy more old phones to mainline :D

😍 What do I enjoy?

Playing with old hardware and reverse-engineering its inner workings
Helping people make the most out of postmarketOS!

💬 Where can you find me?

GitLab: @knuxify
Matrix: @knuxify:dissonant.dev
Mastodon: @undefined@treehouse.systems

Minecrell

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Nikita Travkin (travmurav)

Pronouns: he/him

🏢 What am I doing?

Keeping an eye on the MSM8916 platform
Working on the Linux kernel
Maintaining lk2nd
Playing with ARM laptops

🤔 What am I thinking about?

Boards booting in a generic manner
Letting the OS target a common boot path, moving the bootloader and DTB outside of OS

😍 What do I enjoy?

Seeing things being upstreamed
Vendor lock-in being broken
Pushing devices beyond expectations

💬 Where can you find me?

Paul Sajna (sajattack)

Pronouns: he/him

🏢 What am I doing?

Adding new devices and improving old ones, specifically BlackBerry KEY2 and LG G7, probably more to come!
Learning the mailing-list-flow 🌊
Asking and answering questions on Matrix
Ramming a USB SBU serial adapter (AKA usb cereal) in every device I find to see if it works
Trying to run postmarketOS on as many of my devices as I can

🤔 What am I thinking about?

Maybe I could build an official postmarketOS SBU-serial for conference swag?
Can we make it easier to switch a device to FDE post-install?
How can we make it easier to adapt a device to EFI boot?

😍 What do I enjoy?

Learning new things
Sharing knowledge
Music
Seeing new devices boot mainline for the first time

💬 Where can you find me?

Ranny Bergamotte

Pronouns: he/him or they/them

🏢 What am I doing?

Getting done with the ToDo list (Want me to do something? Make an issue there or contact me below! Not guaranteed ofc)
Designing and making artwork/marketing material
Stickers for events!
Helping with the website

🤔 What am I thinking about?

How to get new contributors
Getting more users!
How to improve my workflow and maximize efficiency using FOSS
Getting postmarketOS to take over the world!

😍 What do I enjoy?

Learning new things!
Playing with hardware
Using FOSS in all my creative workflows

💬 Where can you find me?

📧 ranny.bergamotte@postmarketos.org
@RannyBergamotte
Matrix: @rannybergamotte:kde.org

Raymond Hackley
(wonderfulShrineMaidenOfParadise)

Pronouns: they/them

🏢 What am I doing?

Maintaining ported MSM8916/MSM8939/MSM8909/MSM8953/Exynos4 devices
Sending patches to the Linux kernel upstream
Supporting users in chat and issues with mainline kernel device trees issues
Coding on postmarketOS related projects
Reviewing merge requests

🤔 What am I thinking about?

Discovering new uses of phones, such as for home servers
Reducing and reusing electronic waste
Bringing postmarketOS, Alpine, and the Linux kernel to old devices

😍 What do I enjoy?

Using Nextcloud/Grocy/FreshRSS/Gitea hosted on my phones
Watching users successfully booting phones with postmarketOS + mainline kernel

💬 Where can you find me?

@wonderfulShrineMaidenOfParadise
@wonderfulShrineMaidenOfParadise in #msm8916-mainline:postmarketos.org

Robert Eckelmann (longnoserob)

Pronouns: he/him

🏢 What am I doing?

Supporting users in chat and GitLab issues
Reviewing merge requests
Testing changes (mostly on nvidia-tegra-armv7 and qcom-sdm845 devices)

🤔 What am I thinking about?

Improving the getting started phase for new users
Improving the feedback from the users to the developers (mostly by triaging issues)

😍 What do I enjoy?

Happy users after successfully troubleshooting an issue
Getting new features working and shared with others
Using older hardware with the latest software

💬 Where can you find me?

Rudraksha Gupta (logicalerzor)

Pronouns: he/him

🏢 What am I doing?

Trying (and failing) to mainline MSM8960 😋
Testing changes and releases for my devices
Updating the pmOS wiki to share all the knowledge

🤔 What am I thinking about?

How can I improve mobile Linux to take it to the next level for everyday users?
Where can I learn more about the Linux architecture?
How does my phone's downstream kernel work? Can I mainline it?
Aw man, this doesn't work... what should I eat for dinner?

😍 What do I enjoy?

FOSS! 😎
Other non-tech related things include astronomy, F.I.R.E, hiking, and more (it'd probably be a paragraph if I listed everything 😋)
I like learning new things! Relevant XKCD
Sometimes I forget cool things, but then learning it a second time is just as fun as learning it for the first time 😆
Feel free to chat with me! I can't guarantee I have the time to help, but it's always nice to talk to people 🙂

💬 Where can you find me?

About Me!