May 2022 - Kernel-peer-lab - lists.bcnfs.org

Meeting Friday 3rd of June 2022
by Pau Espin Pedrol 31 May '22

31 May '22

Hi, I propose to have the next meeting 03/06/2022. That's Friday 3rd of June 2022. This time we should try to book a room a Lleialtat Santsenca at 18:30 or so. Later on we can go to some restaurant and have dinner as usual. Please all who can, confirm ASAP so that we can see if we have a minimal quorum. This also helps when booking some specific smaller/bigger room I guess. Some ideas of technical topics to look at which were raised in last meeting (feel free to propose/bring your own): * Support reverse-engineering some ring bell intercoms * Play with flashing some mobile phones with postmarketOS and improving documentation and kernel support.

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Reactivating the group
by Pau Espin Pedrol 25 May '22

25 May '22

Hi, A few of us attended the last meeting we had in May 6th (the first in ~2 years after the pandemic started), and we discussed about reactivating the group a bit among other stuff. We also shared our concerns regarding the fact that the group has almost no visibility, and it's difficult to find it even if knowing about its existence, be it for contacting members or the community, or joining physical meetings. This email aims at collecting ideas and specific actions to do which we agreed on in order to improve the above concerns: * The bcnfs.org page is missing a link to its mailman. This makes it incredibly difficult to find the bcnfs.org mailing lists (ours included) even if knowing about its existence (I really had some trouble myself). * Have some well-known web page which is easy to share and find through search engines, which has a small description of the group and how to participate. We could ask bcnfs.org if they could provide a subdomain or subpath + a minimal hosting (1 static html web page is enough imho). IIRC Matthias already had such a web page somewhere, but I was unable to find it. I can host it myself if needed, but I think having it in some well known place like bcnfs.org should ease this. * Have some well-known chatting room where members can hang around and interact. Try to have several technologies interconnected through bridges. ** IRC: libera.chat room #bcn-kernel-peer-lab (I'm already there most of the day) ** Telegram group (already created, waiting for captcha bot to publish) ** Matrix room? which server? * Try to schedule physical meetings around once per month. If we reach to a stage with more people we can think about increasing frequency of physical meetings (maybe at different locations). List of specific TODO actions: * Ask Matthias to provide the document he used to book rooms at Lleialtat Santsenca (maybe have the process briefly documented at the web page?). * Contact bcnfs.org to tell them to add a link to their mailman from their front web page. * Contact bcnfs.org to ask them if they can provide us with some minimal subdomain/hosting (kernelpeerlab.bcnfs.org?) * Register #bcn-kernel-peer-lab room in libera.chat to have moderator rights * Add captcha bot to telegram group * Investigate need for Matrix chatroom

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Meeting in May
by Pau Espin Pedrol 01 May '22

01 May '22

Hi all! Long time with no movement in here since the pandemic started. Good weather is coming, people are vaccinated and pandemic numbers are low/good. We could start thinking about having some meeting as usual in May, Friday evening around Sants. We could try getting a bigger & well ventilated room at Lleialtat Santsenca, and later go to some of the usual restaurants/bars outside in a terrace. Is someone else eager to join too? Even if it's only for a chat + beer outside. Share your thoughts! Regards, Pau

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