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
Dinner - Qualcomm (food only, you pay for drinks)
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? Should we do at 20'th anniversary developer meeting in Berlin next year? (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)
- meta-security future plans: user's feedback (Marta & Scott)
- Addressing CRA requirements (secure by default) (Marta)
- bitbake-setup: How do we make progress? What will encourage users to give it a try? (Tim)
- Application cross-development challenging (and therefore prefer Debian). Update and discussion about latest improvements related to SDKs and IDE's (Adrian)
Dinner
Add your name here if you are interested in dinner after the meeting. Koen has a reservation at Shiva at 1900.
- Jon Mason
- Koen Kooi
- Jose Quaresma
- Peter Kjellerstedt
- Jan Lübbe
- Michael Olbrich
- Marta Rybczynska
- Michael Opdenacker (arriving around 20:15)
- Joshua Watt
- Chuck Wolber
- Karey Wolber
- Scott Murray
- Vyacheslav Yurkov (Slava)
- Iben Ahlström
- Piotr Buliński
- Philip Balister
- Alexander Sverdlin
- Alessandro Zini
- Stefan Gloor
- Adrian Freihofer
- Nynke Zandstra
- Tim Orling
- Patrick Wicki
- Megan Knight
- Cory Hisey
- Peter Johennecken
Recommended Restaurants
- Shiva (Indian Food)
Recommended bars/pubs
Minutes
A Photo from the first OEDEM
