S01E09: Eventful Number 9
In this episode nine Peter and Ezra discuss two conferences that happened recently, the May PINE64 Community Update and some more community news. They also answer four community questions and ask kindly for more!
What have we been up to lately?
Ezra is still working on his point and click adventure game and attended the Linux App Summit.
Check out what Ezra does on Elatronion.com, Odysee and YouTube!
Peter was quite busy with family matters, and only managed to write
Topics:
Linux App Summit
Thank you to NerdZoom Media for being our audio producers! Full schedule
Panel discussion: Building International Software Communities by Aniqa Khokhar et al.
Forcing Hardware Vendors to care about Linux since 2015 by Richard Hughes
Adaptive Apps: The Future Is Now by Tobias Bernard
Funding Krita by Halla Rempt
AlpineConf 2021
Recordings:
We have links to the video recordings, the Big Blue Button room recordings (which contain the Q&As) and the conference itself in the shownotes.
PINE64 Community Update May
PineTime
Siglo 0.8.0 was released shortly before our recording, so some of these pull requests have been merged and released, yay!
PinePhone
See also: In Linux Smartphones we trust
Martijn Braam: First look at the PinePhone Keyboard dev unit
PineBook Pro
Pinebook Pro: production placed on halt due to component shortages; will keep you updated. If you want a Pinebook Pro, now is the time to pick one up.
LoraWAN
Partnership with RAK Wireless: Let’s make MiRAKles happen
Custom Firmware tryout progress?
Minicom instructions at bloggerbust.ca
Peter wanted to do a good job and thus did not finish is blog post on the topic yet, but it should be on linmob.net before the next episode lands
Community engagement 😀
Listener Questions
Blort asked on Tilvids
When are we going to hear/see more about the PineCube?
Sadly no, but Ezra commits to reporting about his successes and failures in the next episode!
Rice Cake asked on YouTube
Have you guys thought about verified boot camp n pinephone? 🙂
Content to read on the topic: Protecting Linux devices with verified boot, from ROM to Userspace.
If you have experimented with this on the PinePhone, please get in touch!
iNTRa asked on YouTube
Do either of you have your own channels that you post on?
Ezra writes on Elatronion.com, and publishes videos on Odysee or YouTube.
Peter writes on linmob.net and publishes Video Odysee, Peertube and YouTube.
Deon Denis asked on Youtube
How about a FM radio back cover?
Apologies for saying I-two-C, it’s I-square-C. We don’t really know beyond this: RTP’s SDR Experiments
Again: If you know more about this, please tell us about it!
Feedback and Questions welcome!
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