Laptop and Desktop Working Group
This is a DRAFT - work in progress! See Contact and Feedback to get in touch or give feedback!
The next call date and time can be found in the Schedule section.
The Laptop and Desktop Workgroup (LDWG) is a platform for the community to collaborate on development, testing, knowledge exchange, and advocacy for FreeBSD on laptops and desktops. Our mission is to advocate, support, and improve the use of FreeBSD on laptops and desktops for both business and personal users.
Contents
Charter
Scope of Work
The WG will focus on:
Supporting the creation, validation, prioritization and delivery of user stories identified in the FreeBSD Foundation’s “Laptop” investment work package.
- Creating content (recordings, articles, tutorials, documentation, system configurations, etc.) for a variety of stakeholders interested in FreeBSD on laptops and desktops
- Encouraging contributions from a diverse range of stakeholders, including developers, testers, and industry experts, to enhance the usability of laptops and desktops running FreeBSD.
- Facilitating collaboration through code contributions, testing initiatives, operational support, and hardware insights.
Success Metrics
We will measure our success through:
- Regular Delivery: Consistent improvements to the user experience on laptops and desktops.
- Community Engagement: Active participation from all relevant community members, including the FreeBSD Foundation, FreeBSD Project, and users.
- Resource Investment: Steady or increasing commitment of time and resources from participants.
Deliverables
Our key deliverables will include:
- Enhanced Usability: Tangible improvements in the functionality of FreeBSD on laptops and desktops.
- Documentation: Comprehensive records of WG progress, along with best practices for deployment and usage.
- Community Growth: Expansion of the WG community, fostering a vibrant ecosystem of contributors and users.
In the future, we may expand our efforts to include expanding collaboration with hardware and peripheral vendors.
Calls
Schedule and Next Call
The first Laptop and Desktop Work Group Call will start December 16, 10AM PT / 1PM ET / 6PM UTC.
Here are some heads up on this matter:
We will use Jitsi to host and run the call: Call link.
Please be advised that we plan to record our calls and publish the recordings on YouTube afterward.
Agenda
Here is a preliminary agenda for our first call:
- Housekeeping
- Why, How, What
- Who am I (I, as in we as each participant) and why am I doing this? Quick Introduction
- operational aspects: monthly calls, every nth Monday
- discussions on the mailing list offline, otherwise during the call
- Charter - DISCUSSION
- Initial list of Laptop and Desktop Gaps - DISCUSSION
- what are we missing?
- what is the most important?
- who/what do we need to achieve it?
- Agenda for future calls
- for example, add: news section
- Next steps
Areas of Interest
The collected items of interest are documented in a Google Worksheet. Please get in touch with ChrisMoerz to get write level access.
Contact and Feedback
We are using the official freebsd-desktop mailing list (sign up here). We'll keep our emails prefixed with [LDWG] to make our communication easier to filter and separate from other ports- and bug-fixing related emails.
There are ongoing conversations on Reddit or the FreeBSD Forums, which you are invited to join!