Dear Friend, I invite you to a joint ‘‘DUG#9 & vPub 0xE’’ event this Thursday 
Full schedule, as well as the join links, are available on this page - but here is a brief description of how it will look like:
- on DUG 2025-03-20T17:00:00Z (your local time) : we will discuss the Dasharo distribution of coreboot opensource PC firmware (much better than a typical closed-source UEFI: it provides the hardened security, high quality, cool features and almost-lifetime upgrades!)
- If you are looking for a truly secure modern laptop with an opensource firmware that - while satisfying your privacy needs! - also provides the valuable benefits to your user experience: please make sure to see “NovaCustom: new products and plans for the near future” talk by our prominent guest Wessel Klein Snakenborg - the founder of NovaCustom company that makes such laptops and is committed to improving their opensource Dasharo firmware with the help of 3mdeb
- on vPub 2025-03-20T19:00:00Z (your local time) - we will be having an Opensource Online Party : with a cozy free-for-all chat about everything opensource firmware/hardware-related, as well as a few planned talks from our special guests who would like to share their hard won in-depth knowledge to save a lot of your time:
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Kamil @aronowski - an active member of Qubes OS community, a volunteer reviewer of UEFI shim signing submissions and a respected IT security engineer, will tell you how to implement a secure signing infrastructure to become your own UEFI Secure Boot CA
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Filip Lewinski - a firmware developer from our 3mdeb company who has mastered & would like to tell you about the deguard utility in his “Introduction to deguard” talk: this wonderful tool allows to bypass the BootGuard - a major roadblock for opensource coreboot firmware on a wide range of Intel-based motherboards
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Matt DeVillier aka MrChromebox - a famous member of coreboot community who is making the custom opensource firmwares for Chromebooks & Chromeboxes and gave new life to these devices for a lot of people - will be helping you during his AMA about open source firmware
Aside from a cozy opensource chat, our free-for-all sections are also an excellent opportunity for you to learn about rare devices that support the opensource firmware and are hard to stumble upon elsewhere - as well as how to configure & build & flash it. All your questions will be answered!
Join links & full events schedule are available here (both video streams and anonymous text chats will be available) :
DUG#9 & vPub 0xE opensource online Party! - this Thursday
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