Laptop & Desktop

Workgroup Call

FreeBSD Project • 2026/04/08

⏺ This session is being recorded

Housekeeping

Code of conduct

We follow the FreeBSD project’s community code of conduct.

Communicating on this call

• We mute ourselves whenever we are not speaking.
• We keep ourselves as short as possible - don’t digress.
• We accept to be reminded about this by the moderator, if necessary.
• We raise our virtual hand when we want to talk, we don’t interrupt others speaking (exception to the rule: moderation as above).

Agenda

Minutes & Governance & News

Minutes Review, Procedures, Survey

FreeBSD Foundation’s�Laptop Project

Alice Sowerby

Areas of Interest

• Review Worksheet
• Updates
• Adopting Ownership/Lead

Future & Next Steps

Minutes & Governance

Looking Back

Minutes of our last call

Can be found at online as Google Doc..

Lets review briefly and approve current version.

• Items missing?
• Anything misunderstood?
• Any comments open that need reply?

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Laptop Support and Usability Improvements Project

Alice Sowerby

Introduction

Objectives

Deliver a package of improved or new FreeBSD functionality that, together, will ensure that it runs well “out of the box” on a broad range of personal computing devices.

Organization Goals

Laptop support and accessibility is a strategic priority for the FreeBSD Foundation to accelerate developer and corporate adoption, through:

• Improving endpoint security for organizational users
• Improving the FreeBSD Committer experience for the project community and also Vendors whose products are based on FreeBSD.
• Reducing the barrier to FreeBSD adoption by users – individual, corporate, and contributors.

Monthly updates

March project report is available. It will be shared via the Desktop mailing list as usual.

• March

https://github.com/FreeBSDFoundation/proj-laptop/blob/main/monthly-updates/2026-03.md

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Further resources

• Project Roadmap
• Work in progress
• Explore scope by area of functionality
• Join the Desktop mailing list

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See also Foundation blog about the Laptop Project

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Areas Of Interest

Areas of interest

Reviewing and setting priorities

Lets review the worksheet together

1. Who is interested to taking the lead on any of the items?
2. Let's add whatever is not on and anyone is interested to lead
3. Who is working on things and has a call for action?
4. Is it ok to park items on a backlog sheet if we don’t find an owner?

Future & Next Steps

Next steps

Next meeting date & time

Suggest having our next call on

Wednesday, May 13, 2026 at 10AM PT / 1PM ET / 5PM UTC

Next steps

Areas of interest

Add your name to items you like to adopt. Prepare for presenting your plans during an upcoming call if you like.

FreeBSD Foundation’s Project

Watch development news, help testing effort

Community work

Participate in conversation on mailing list, forums etc.

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Goals for next meeting

1. Minutes and Documentation
2. Update on Action Areas�Present your plans & �Calls for Action
3. Update on FreeBSD Foundation’s Project

Thank You!