Notices by Drew Fustini (pdp7@fosstodon.org)

You are invited to the @crowdsupply HACKER HOLIDAY PARTY with @helenleigh

"Join us for food, drinks and nerding out Friday 8th December 2023, from 6pm until late"

55 NE Farragut Street, Unit 2 (top floor) Portland, OR, 97211

https://www.crowdsupply.com/events/hacker-holidays

A new BeagleV board launched today! The BeagleV Fire features RISC-V + FPGA. https://www.beagleboard.org/boards/beaglev-fire #beaglev #riscv #fpga

I found this @conservancy #fossy2023 talk from Kyle Rankin made a lot of very good points: "Free Software Policy With Semi-Firm Firmware"
https://kylerank.in/talks/misc/semifirm_firmware.html #pdx #portland #firmware #opensource #openhardware

In the past, I was very excited about the FSF Respects Your Freedom certification and bought a lot of hardware on the list. But to be honest, RYF does not recognize how modern hardware works.

For example, neither bunnie's novena or @mntmn's mnt reform laptops qualify, which is a bit silly given they are the most open laptops I have ever seen. I'm excited by the points Kyle raised in this talk and I hope it will lead to a new criteria to evaluate the openness of computing devices.

Teardown is a 3-day conference for hacking, discovering, and sharing hardware and it starts TODAY! https://www.crowdsupply.com/teardown/portland-2023
Teardown is organized by the great team at @crowdsupply (including @helenleigh!)

Check out the schedule of talks, workshops, demos, and installations: https://www.crowdsupply.com/teardown/portland-2023/schedule Hope to see you there!

#Teardown2023 #Teardown #CrowdSupply #Portland #PDX #OpenHardware #OpenSource #HardwareHacking

This Summer in #Portland #PDX

Teardown, June 23 - 25
https://www.crowdsupply.com/teardown/portland-2023
A conference for hacking, discovering, and sharing hardware

FOSSY, July 13-16th 2023
Free and Open Source Software Yearly conference
https://2023.fossy.us/

Ctrl-H PDX Hackerspace
https://www.meetup.com/ctrl-h/
https://pdxhackerspace.org/
Weekly work parties on Saturdays.

Dorkbot PDX
https://dorkbotpdx.org/
In-person meetup on Monday, June 5th, 6:30PM

Portland Linux / Unix Group (PLUG)
https://www.pdxlinux.org
In-person again!

Hardware Happy Hour Portland, organized by @helenleigh, is tomorrow! Tuesday, January 17th, at the Bye and Bye (1011 NE Alberta St, Portland, OR) https://www.meetup.com/hardware-happy-hour-3h-portland/events/290847057/