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Lennart Poettering

PSA: There's going to be a lot of systemd related stuff going on at FOSDEM this weekend. Many folks from the systemd camp and adjacent will be hanging out at the Image-Based Linux & Boot Integrity devroom:

fosdem.org/2025/schedule/track

fosdem.orgFOSDEM 2025 - Image-Based Linux and Boot Integrity

And then your's truly will give four talks, at various different places. First of all I have a keynote:

fosdem.org/2025/schedule/event

And unlike some well-known billionaire I am not going to chicken out of my mine. Ha!

fosdem.orgFOSDEM 2025 - 14 Years of systemd

And then there are three other talks, in the aforementioned Image-based Linux & Boot Integrity devroom (about systemd & TPMs), in the bootloader devrom (about supercharged UKIs) and in the identity management devroom (about systemd' userdb API).

And of course, outside of the image-based linux track, and other than my own talks there's some more systemd adjacent talks in other tracks, for example, Ani Sinha talks about bring-your-own-firmware UKIs, in confidential computing cloud stuff, booting from mkosi initrd in the network in the distributions devroom (by Antonio Feijoo), running podman containers as systemd services (by Axel Stefanini), and probably some more I missed.

See you all in Brussels!

@pid_eins yikes, I've only ever done three in a single year and that helped me realize that was too much...!

@bagder @pid_eins I did two last year and it was already a lot. I can't imagine three, let alone four! How do you find the time to prepare all of those?

@Aissen @bagder @pid_eins It's probably completely covered by work and relates to work he's doing right now, that helps a lot.

@bagder well, what can i do? i am not going to so many conferences anymore as i used to (kids…), hence i have to pack more talks into fewer conferences. It's called "simple math"! ;-)

@pid_eins @bagder it's still a lot, I think normal people would need at least a few weeks to prepare those talks, but I guess you don't need that much since you "preach" these topics already since years all the time... ;)

@michelin yeah, all the money in the world, and yet he's chickening out when seeing just a tiny bit of opposition...

@pid_eins but I wanted to cheer on @drewdevault and his planned sit in!