I am delighted to hear this - I had actually asked about this very thing earlier in the week and had been told it wasn't happening this year, glad that it is going to happen informally at least...
I have at least two laptops that can be reflashed as far as I can tell from the coreboot site... Possibly more, will bring the collection and see what can be done and what can't... Definite? Thinkpad T400 and T500 Maybe - Thinkpad T61 and SL500 Less likely, but perhaps - A Dell laptop of about the same age, not sure of model offhand Unlikely but - Dell "Inspiron Mini" and MSI "Wind Notebook" - both are ~2008 vintage, use Atom CPUs... None of the systems are currently backed up, but I have 4 spare 3.5" hard drives. PSU's as needed. I do regrettably need to keep one machine able to boot a fairly recent version of that evil proprietary OS as there is some stuff I must be able to run that has no GNU/Linux alternative.... ART ------------------ Arthur Torrey - <arthur_tor...@comcast.net> ------------------- Message: 3 Date: Wed, 21 Mar 2018 01:31:44 +0000 From: Leah Rowe <i...@gluglug.org.uk> To: John Sullivan <jo...@fsf.org> Cc: libreplanet-discuss <libreplanet-discuss@libreplanet.org>, Tiberiu-Cezar Tehnoetic <tibe...@tehnoetic.com>, "Patrick 'P. J.' McDermott" <p...@pehjota.net> Subject: [libreplanet-discuss] libreboot workshop at libreplanet 2018 Message-ID: <7ea7be25-502f-ab9f-92c8-4ef292fa5...@gluglug.org.uk> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA256 Hi everyone, The FSF isn't officially hosting a libreboot workshop at libreplanet this year. I'm proposing to set up an unofficial workshop at LibrePlanet 2018, so that people at the conference can get their libreboot-supported systems flashed. I myself (Leah Rowe, founder of libreboot) will not be physically attending, unfortunately, but I do know that there are others who would be willing to do this. I've already spoken to several people on #libreboot IRC: sensiblemn (Kurt from Technoethical) is willing. zyliwax is willing. I'm also CC'ing libiquity and technoethical, asking them to take part. obviously, any FSF staff e.g. sysadmins who want to take part and help out, are more than welcome to. e.g. the staff at FSF who know how to flash SPI chips, for libreboot installation If anyone else on this list who is attending the conference wishes to take part, please reply with your details including what equipment you can bring. <SNIP> _______________________________________________ libreplanet-discuss mailing list libreplanet-discuss@libreplanet.org https://lists.libreplanet.org/mailman/listinfo/libreplanet-discuss