===================================================== Genode Labs Newsletter - December 2018 / January 2019 ===================================================== Content 1. Road map for 2019 2. Meet us at the microkernel developer room at FOSDEM 3. Genodians.org - a new place for stories around Genode 4. Looking forward to this year's Hack'n'Hike 1. Road map for 2019 -------------------- We continue our tradition of publicly discussing Genode's road map at the turn of the year. The initial posting [1] prompted a vivid discussion about our vision, mid-term ambitions, and potential areas of improvement: https://lists.genode.org/pipermail/users/2018-December/006517.html After the success of past year's evolution of our Genode-based general-purpose OS called Sculpt, we now face the question: How to make Sculpt relevant and appealing for a broader community of users and developers? During the discussion, we identified three directions. First, we will focus on making Sculpt - and thereby Genode - easier to approach and to use. This comes along with fostering a sense of one joint community among users and developers. Second, we strive to make Genode more valuable by easing the use of existing applications and programming languages in Genode systems. And third, we aim at the seamless integration of Genode with established protocols and infrastructure. To see how we broke down these high-level ideas into a sequence of tangible steps, please have a look at our official road map published earlier this week: https://genode.org/about/road-map 2. Meet us at the microkernel developer room at FOSDEM ------------------------------------------------------ FOSDEM in Brussels is the go-to venue for the Free-Software and Open-Source community. This year, Genode Labs has the honor of hosting the microkernel developer room at FOSDEM. To our excitement, our call for participation received far more responses than anticipated. We are happy to announce a tight schedule of diverse and thought-provoking topics: https://fosdem.org/2019/schedule/track/microkernels_and_component_based_os/ On Genode's account, Alexander Böttcher will present his current line of work about harmonizing the virtualization interfaces of different microkernels. Apart from Alexander, you can expect to catch up with Emery, Sebastian, Martin, Stefan, and Norman of Genode Labs at the developer room. 3. Genodians.org - a new place for stories around Genode -------------------------------------------------------- With genodians.org, we are creating a new blogging platform for topics around Genode. It is part of our ambition to invite a broader audience to participate in our community. The blog will host anecdotes, personal thoughts, hands-on experiences, Genode- related entertainment, and announcements. Genodians.org is open for every Genode enthusiast to join! It goes without saying that the website is hosted on Genode. We just launched the preliminary version one week ago (please don't mind the self-signed SSL certificate): https://genodians.org 4. Looking forward to this year's Hack'n'Hike --------------------------------------------- Besides FOSDEM, our annual Hack'n'Hike is another highlight of the year. It is a small gathering of developers and enthusiasts of Genode. Like every year, it provides a mix of daylight outdoor activities and candlelight hacking activities. The Hack'n'Hike thereby presents a great opportunity for newcomers to join the community. This year, it will take place during May 10 to 13 in Königstein. The event is sponsored by Genode Labs. There is no registration fee. If you like to participate, please register by commenting at the corresponding topic on our issue tracker linked below. There you can also find the most up-to-date information about travelling arrangements and the exact location: https://github.com/genodelabs/genode/issues/2841 About the newsletter -------------------- If you have friends or colleagues who might be interested in our projects, we would appreciate you to forward this email. If you received this newsletter as a forwarded email, you may subscribe to the newsletter here: https://genode-labs.com/newsletter In the case of receiving this newsletter unintended, you can cancel your subscription at any time by replying to this email with the subject set to "unsubscribe". Best regards -- Dr.-Ing. Norman Feske Genode Labs https://www.genode-labs.com/ · https://genode.org/ https://twitter.com/GenodeLabs · /ˈdʒiː.nəʊd/ Genode Labs GmbH · Amtsgericht Dresden · HRB 28424 · Sitz Dresden Geschäftsführer: Dr.-Ing. Norman Feske, Christian Helmuth
