Welcome! Please introduce yourself

Hi!! My name is JC Staudt. I have an educational background in electrical engineering and computer science, with a professional background in VHDL (telecommunications), C/C#/C++/Python (software development) and team leadership. I've been borderline obsessed with open-source initiatives in the past few years, and I've been trying to construct a more visible online presence given that my entire professional career has been quite closed-off. I'm excited to get to know everyone and see what we can accomplish to make great strides toward a more open-source computing platform!

Hi! I don't have a strong engineering background, so I may not be able to contribute as much to the group. I'm currently a university student working towards a M.Sc. degree in Computer Science. Additionally I'm working for a small German non-profit search engine where I'm mostly doing web stuff (front- and backend). While I have some knowledge about computer architecture in theory, my practical experience at is pretty much limited to courses at university (Examples include: building a very simple multi-core OS in C++/asm (including interupt handling/scheduling, excluding initialization); a very basic course in VHDL). I'm dissatisfied with the current state of control users have over their devices and hope that projects like this can contribute to more user empowerment.

Greetings! Degree'd in Electrical Engineering, spent the first half of my career trying to get into programming, second half doing it (C/Python/LabVIEW). The FOSS community has the right idea about software, the 'right-to-repair/hack' community has the right idea about hardware. This project seems to marry those notions well. I have never designed a laptop, but I am willing to contribute wherever my efforts will do more good than harm.

Hi. I'm M Hamrick. I work in SiFive's "Public Facing Engineering" group. I recently bumped into JC at an event and am here to offer what support I can. I'm happy to answer specific questions about our products here (though I might also point people to our forums over at https://forums.sifive.com/ from time to time.)

My academic background is in physics, but spent most of my career doing embedded programming, (some) human factors engineering and embedded programming for human factors with a decade or two spent implementing crypto algorithms and trying to make mobile phones less objectionable. I also accidentally wrote some specifications on security in distributed systems and how to implement virtual worlds.

I'm much more of a software person than a hardware person, but i own a soldering iron and am not completely useless when it comes to Verilog, VHDL and Chisel.

Hello! I am probably the least qualified person here, as my professional experience is 18+ years in web development (mostly LAMP stack). However, I have worked on a lot of open source projects over the years and have picked up other languages along the way: C/C#/Python/Nim/Rebol/Red/FASM

My interest in this working group is in designing an OS for the laptop. I like the idea of an open and free ISA and building an OS that can talk directly to the hardware, like we had back in the days of yore. I know this is a daunting task, and my background doesn't speak much to this, but it is a project I keep revisiting from time to time. This is the first time I have found a group of people working on something that may make this possible.

Cheers!