Laptop and Desktop Working Group

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.

The next call date and time can be found in the Schedule section.

See Contact and Feedback to get in touch or give feedback!

Charter

Scope of Work

The WG focuses on:

* Creating content (recordings, articles, tutorials, documentation, system configurations, etc.) for a variety of stakeholders interested in FreeBSD on laptops and desktops

Success Metrics

We will measure our success through:

Deliverables

Our key deliverables will include:

In the future, we may expand our efforts to include expanding collaboration with hardware and peripheral vendors.

Calls

Schedule and Next Call

The next Laptop and Desktop Work Group Call will start Wednesday, April 9, 10AM PST / 1PM EDT / 5PM UTC. WATCH OUT Daylight Savings Change!! Join

Generally, the call is scheduled on the second Wednesday in a month.

You can subscribe to this Google Calendar iCal to make sure you get the correct dates and times.

Please note:

Agenda

  1. Minutes of the first meeting
    • Approval
    • Action points
      • Survey
      • Follow up on sway support input from survey
  2. News items
  3. Call structure/Governance:
    • Retiring/ejecting orphaned entries and procedure - EWG crossref
    • APAC community and scheduling of calls
  4. Review the Foundation's Laptop Project board and planned activities
  5. Laptop Project update by Alice
  6. Updates on various activities and areas of interest
    • Ownership / leadership for areas and next steps
    • Updates on items
  7. Date, time, and duration of the third meeting.

Minutes, Recordings, Slides of Past Calls

Wednesday, March 12, 2025

Thank you to everyone who joined the third call on March, 2025.

We are currently processing the recording and will post links shortly.

We now have an online survey running until April 9 to query alternative calling times.

Monday, February 24, 2025

Thank you to everyone who joined the third call on February 24, 2025.

A few lessons learned from this call:

Monday, January 20, 2025

Thank you to everyone who joined the second call on January 20, 2025.

A few lessons learned from this call, which we'll keep working on:

Monday, December 16, 2024

Thank you for all of you who joined the initial call on December 16, 2024.

Documents can be found in structured form on Google Drive.

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.

During December 2024 and February 2025 we held a survey, public to everyone, to better understand the needs and interests of the community around using FreeBSD on laptops and desktops. Preliminary results were presented during the second LDWG call on January 20, 2025; final results were published as raw data and summary on February 15, 2025.

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!


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