OEDEM2025

Sponsors

Thanks to our sponsors for helping out with the food for the meeting.

Morning coffee and snacks - Redwire Technologies

Lunch - Konsulko

Afternoon snacks and coffee - Pengutronix

Location and time

The venue is Hotel Arena at

Gravesandestraat 55 1092 AA Amsterdam The Netherlands

The meeting starts at 1000 on August 24, 2025 and runs until we are done, or until 1800 when we have to leave.

Registration

Registration is handled at https://pretix.eu/OpenEmbedded/oedem25/

Currently the ticket shop shows the room as full. You can join the waiting list if you are interested and we will try and get people to free up tickets if they can not make it.

Agenda

• config file handling on R/O systems, hermetic /usr, https://uapi-group.org/specifications/specs/configuration_files_specification/ (Jan Lübbe)
• handling of static users across distros, https://www.freedesktop.org/software/systemd/man/latest/sysusers.d.html (Jan Lübbe)
• boot phase variable naming (Jon Mason)
• What comes after Sato (Ross Burton)
• Megan leads a game to find out how we feel about various parts of the ecosystem, with discussion (Megan)
• Future developer meetings. What do people want, what does the project need, how do we make these happen? (Philip)
• Email is becoming less reliable. Emails from pretix are going to spam, making it hard to organize this meeting. Patches end up tagged as spam by groups.io. Moving forward, what steps can we take to improve communication. Add tools you think might be useful below.(Philip)
  • https://community.tmpdir.org/ (Discourse)

Dinner

Add your name here if you are interested in dinner after the meeting. We will need someone to find a venue and make a reservation.

• Jon Mason
• Koen Kooi

Recommended Restaurants

• Shiva (Indian Food) - If we're a large enough group, say 30 people, the owner said he could make it a private event with a set menu. Shiva has 45 seats.