Achill Gilgenast (fossdd)
Pronouns: he/him
π’ 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
π€ What am I thinking about?
- Throwing a immutable postmarketOS on my grandma's laptop
- Pushing postmarketOS into being more reliable & stable
π What do I enjoy?
- To see your device running postmarketOS
- Watching the Linux Mobile space develop and grow
π¬ Where can you find me?
Alexey Minnekhanov (minlexx)
Pronouns: he/him
π’ 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
π€ 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
π What do I enjoy?
- When things are working as expected out of the box
- Seeing more and more devices booting mainline Linux / U-Boot
π¬ Where can you find me?
Anjan Momi (anjandev)
Pronouns: he/him
π’ What am I doing?
- Maintaining Sxmo
- Maintaining Alpine Linux packages
- Writing userspace applications for postmarketOS
- Occasionally reviewing merge requests
π€ What am I thinking about?
- Improving userspace
- Creating a hacker-friendly phone OS!
- Promoting postmarketOS
π What do I enjoy?
- Tools that are easy to use and follow the Unix philosophy
- Free software!
π¬ Where can you find me?
Anton Bambura (jenneron)
Pronouns: he/him
π’ 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
π€ What am I thinking about?
- Making postmarketOS userspace more suitable for various form factors
- Shipping full firmware and secondary bootloaders via fwupd
π What do I enjoy?
- Automating things
- Improving the user experience
- Combining devices into generic ports
π¬ Where can you find me?
@jenneron@jenneron:matrix.org (find me in
mainanddevelpostmarketOS rooms)
Arnav Singh (arnavion)
Pronouns: he/him
π’ What am I doing?
Maintaining support for the PinePhone.
π€ What am I thinking about?
Making pmOS better.
π What do I enjoy?
Free and open-source software, also known as FOSS!
π¬ Where can you find me?
@ArnavionArnavionon IRC
Aster Boese (justsoup)
Pronouns: they/he
π’ What am I doing?
- Solidifying systemd support
- Implementing immutability
- Maintaining Lomiri packages
- Occasionally tinkering with the oneplus-fajita
π€ What am I thinking about?
- How to make pmOS easier to understand
- How can Lomiri work better on Alpine
π What do I enjoy?
- Packaging for Alpine
- Programming in Rust
π¬ Where can you find me?
BarnabΓ‘s CzΓ©mΓ‘n (barni2000)
Pronouns: he/him
π’ 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
π€ What am I thinking about?
- How to make maintaining easier
- How to reduce downstream ports
π What do I enjoy?
- Porting postmarketOS to more device
- Seeing more and more devices booting mainline Linux
- Enabling more features time to time
π¬ Where can you find me?
Dylan Van Assche (dylanvanassche)
Pronouns: he/him
π’ 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.
π€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
π’ 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
π€ What am I thinking about?
- Freeing my digital life from proprietary systems and services
- Getting postmarketOS ready for more technical users
π What do I enjoy?
- Sane defaults
- Reducing power consumption of devices
- Color calibration of screens
π¬ Where can you find me?
Ferass El Hafidi (funderscore)
Pronouns: he/him
π’ What am I doing?
- Reviewing merge requests
- Maintaining ports to Amlogic devices
- Helping folks in the chat
π€ What am I thinking about?
- Bringing postmarketOS to set-top boxes
- Liberating devices
π 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!
π¬ Where can you find me?
@funderscoref_andf_[x]on OFTC IRC- π https://fun.dersco.re/
Henrik Grimler (Grimler)
Pronouns: he/him
π’ What am I doing?
- Reviewing merge requests
- Maintaining ports to for Samsung devices
- Helping (or confusing? π ) 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
π€ 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
π 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
π¬ Where can you find me?
@grimlergrimleron IRC@grimler@mastodon.social
@grimler:matrix.org
- π https://grimler.se
Hugo Osvaldo Barrera (WhyNotHugo)
Pronouns: he/him
π’ What am I doing?
- Working on pimsync.
- Maintaining various ports (mostly upstream / Alpine ports).
- Tweaking packages to work without eudev.
π€ What am I thinking about?
- Bootable images which run from /tmpfs.
- Recovery mechanisms for when I break the system while tinkering.
π 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.
π¬ Where can you find me?
- π§ whynothugo.nl
- π https://whynothugo.nl
- XMPP: hugo@whynothugo.nl
- IRC:
WhyNotHugoon libera.chat or OFTC @whynothugo@fosstodon.org
@whynothugo
Jens Reidel (Adrian)
Pronouns: any
π’ 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
π€ What am I thinking about?
- Ways to make mainlining more accessible
- Formalizing approaches to generic device images
π What do I enjoy?
- Hacking on weird hardware
- Chatting with people about postmarketOS at conferences
π¬ Where can you find me?
@Adrian@gelbpunkt:matrix.org@adrianyyy@chaos.social
knuxify
Pronouns: they/he
π’ 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
π€ 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
π What do I enjoy?
- Playing with old hardware and reverse-engineering its inner workings
- Helping people make the most out of postmarketOS!
π¬ Where can you find me?
- GitLab:
@knuxify - Matrix:
@knuxify:dissonant.dev - Mastodon:
@undefined@treehouse.systems
Minecrell
π§ This trusted contributor does amazing work. No description here yet though.
Nikita Travkin (travmurav)
Pronouns: he/him
π’ What am I doing?
- Keeping an eye on the MSM8916 platform
- Working on the Linux kernel
- Maintaining lk2nd
- Playing with ARM laptops
π€ 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
π What do I enjoy?
- Seeing things being upstreamed
- Vendor lock-in being broken
- Pushing devices beyond expectations
π¬ Where can you find me?
Paul Sajna (sajattack)
Pronouns: he/him
π’ 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 π
- 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
π€ 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?
π What do I enjoy?
- Learning new things
- Sharing knowledge
- Music
- Seeing new devices boot mainline for the first time
π¬ Where can you find me?
Ranny Bergamotte
Pronouns: he/him or they/them
π’ 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
π€ 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!
π What do I enjoy?
- Learning new things!
- Playing with hardware
- Using FOSS in all my creative workflows
π¬ Where can you find me?
- π§ ranny.bergamotte@postmarketos.org
@RannyBergamotte- Matrix:
@rannybergamotte:kde.org
Raymond Hackley
(wonderful​ShrineMaiden​OfParadise)
Pronouns: they/them
π’ 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
π€ 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
π What do I enjoy?
- Using Nextcloud/Grocy/FreshRSS/Gitea hosted on my phones
- Watching users successfully booting phones with postmarketOS + mainline kernel
π¬ Where can you find me?
@wonderfulShrineMaidenOfParadise@wonderfulShrineMaidenOfParadise in #msm8916-mainline:postmarketos.org
Robert Eckelmann (longnoserob)
Pronouns: he/him
π’ 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)
π€ 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)
π 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
π¬ Where can you find me?
Rudraksha Gupta (logicalerzor)
Pronouns: he/him
π’ What am I doing?
- Trying (and failing) to mainline MSM8960 π
- Testing changes and releases for my devices
- Updating the pmOS wiki to share all the knowledge
π€ 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?
π What do I enjoy?
- FOSS! π
- Other non-tech related things include astronomy, F.I.R.E, hiking, and more (it'd probably be a paragraph if I listed everything π)
- 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 π
- 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 π
π¬ Where can you find me?