Events – Purism https://puri.sm/ High-quality computers that protect your freedom and privacy Wed, 01 Oct 2025 18:29:47 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=4.9.28 https://puri.sm/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/cropped-purism-logo-rectangle-1-32x32.png Events – Purism https://puri.sm/ 32 32 FOSDEM 2023 Event Report https://puri.sm/posts/fosdem-2023-event-report/ Mon, 27 Feb 2023 20:00:54 +0000 https://puri.sm/?p=77379 As a reader of this blog you’re already well aware that you can use the Librem 5 while travelling. This is the (highly anticipated, I’m sure) follow up to the previous post about FOSDEM 2023. With sufficient time for all impressions to settle in, let me share my experiences of this trip. The travel itself was […]

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]]> FOSDEM 2023 coming up in Brussels https://puri.sm/posts/fosdem-2023-coming-up-in-brussels/ Fri, 03 Feb 2023 17:17:50 +0000 https://puri.sm/?p=77015 FOSDEM is a conference for the the free and open source software community. It is about take place this weekend on the 4th and 5th of February in Brussels, in person! We look forward to a fully-packed schedule. With so many great talks, you’re bound to find something that will float your boat! Particularly, it […]

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]]> Spreading Awareness about Purism in 2022 https://puri.sm/posts/spreading-awareness-about-purism-in-2022/ Wed, 11 Jan 2023 20:26:11 +0000 https://puri.sm/?p=76768 2022 has been a phenomenal year, full of ups and downs (thankfully more ups than down!). For Purism, we have seen several milestones, none of which could have been possible without the support of our team, customers, supporters and investors. I am writing this post to highlight the three major achievements in the past year, […]

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]]> Purism to Participate in CES 2023 https://puri.sm/posts/purism-to-participate-in-ces-2023/ Wed, 04 Jan 2023 18:24:37 +0000 https://puri.sm/?p=76774 Purism will be at CES® 2023, one of the most influential technology events in the world. Owned and produced by the Consumer Technology Association (CTA)®, CES features innovative ideas from the technology industry. Purism will partner with Teksun Inc, a IoT and AI solutions provider to exhibit this year at Las Vegas. The CES is set to welcome 100,000 participants, 4700 […]

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]]> On Road to Prizren with Librem 5 https://puri.sm/posts/on-road-to-prizren-with-librem-5/ Tue, 16 Aug 2022 14:20:51 +0000 https://puri.sm/?p=75675 Yes, you can go onto a multi week trip with a smartphone running free software. I wanted to share some impressions from my recent trip to Prizren/Kosovo to attend Debconf 22 using a Librem 5. It’s a mix of things that happened and bits that got improved to hopefully make things more fun to use. And, […]

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]]> Purism at Berlin Mini GUADEC https://puri.sm/posts/purism-at-berlin-mini-guadec/ Mon, 08 Aug 2022 16:26:32 +0000 https://puri.sm/?p=75603 GUADEC is the main yearly GNOME conference, where developers, designers, and other community members gather in one place to watch talks, hack on new features, and plan for the future. Given Purism’s close involvement with GNOME development we used to attend GUADEC as a team before COVID, but of course in the past two years […]

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]]> Our experiences hosting the FOSS on Mobile Devices Devroom at FOSDEM 2022 https://puri.sm/posts/our-experiences-hosting-the-foss-on-mobile-devices-devroom-at-fosdem-2022/ Tue, 08 Feb 2022 21:46:35 +0000 https://puri.sm/?p=74032 FOSDEM is an annual conference promoting the use of free and open source software. It usually takes place Brussels in early February but due to the ongoing pandemic it took place online this year. Guido, Federico and Evangelos hosted a variety of presentations around free software in mobile devices in a dedicated devroom (a devroom is […]

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]]> Software Freedom Day https://puri.sm/posts/software-freedom-day/ Sat, 21 Sep 2019 06:17:22 +0000 https://puri.sm/?p=65717 Today we celebrate software freedom! In case you haven’t heard of it before, “software freedom” is a commitment made by programmers: to release apps in a way that always benefits the everyday user. A “free software” application upholds these four essential freedoms, defined by the Free Software Foundation: The freedom to run the program as […]

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]]> Purism at GUADEC 2019 https://puri.sm/posts/purism-at-guadec-2019/ Tue, 10 Sep 2019 15:46:05 +0000 https://puri.sm/?p=65547 GUADEC 2019 took place in Thessaloniki, Greece, and some of Purism’s team members were there. This year’s program was excellent, with plenty of interesting presentations; among them, Tobias Bernard’s talk about adaptive patterns and GNOME apps that work well across different form factors, from phones to desktops. Below is a video of his talk, which […]

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]]> Purism CTO Presents “A Mobile Phone that Respects Your Freedom” at CCCamp https://puri.sm/posts/purism-cto-presents-a-mobile-phone-that-respects-your-freedom-at-cccamp/ Wed, 28 Aug 2019 18:05:50 +0000 https://puri.sm/?p=65342 It is not easy to build hardware that respects your freedom, and it becomes even more challenging when that hardware is a mobile phone. No one knows this better than Purism CTO Nicole Faerber–and at CCCamp 2019 she elaborated on these challenges in a 45-minute presentation: “A Mobile Phone that Respects Your Freedom.” While we […]

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]]> Nicole Faerber nominated for “CTO of the Year” by Women in IT Awards https://puri.sm/posts/nicole-faerber-nominated-for-cto-of-the-year-by-women-in-it-awards/ Wed, 07 Aug 2019 13:56:51 +0000 https://puri.sm/?p=65032 Our very own Nicole Faerber has made it to the short-list for “CTO of the Year” by the Women in IT Awards! Congratulations are in order–we are so proud to say that Nicole Faerber just got nominated to the short-list of such a meaningful award. Nicole’s nomination means a lot to Purism, and we are […]

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]]> Purism at SCaLE 2019 – Retrospective on Secure PureBoot https://puri.sm/posts/purism-at-scale-2019-retrospective-on-secure-pureboot/ Mon, 15 Apr 2019 15:09:20 +0000 https://puri.sm/?p=63065 In March, Purism took part in the Southern California Linux Expo – SCaLE 2019. Once again, we were so busy we barely had the time to leave our booth: people were very interested in the Librem 5 devkit hardware, in the latest version of the Librem laptops and PureOS, on having the same apps for […]

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]]> Purism at LibrePlanet 2019 – Showcasing the Librem 5 Phone https://puri.sm/posts/purism-at-libreplanet-2019-showcasing-the-librem-5-phone/ Tue, 09 Apr 2019 16:08:43 +0000 https://puri.sm/?p=63067 This year’s edition of LibrePlanet went on so well, we had people stopping by to ask questions before the conference was open for the day. Purism’s booth was busy, and people were happy to see us. Nearly everyone we talked to had been following our progress, and everyone was excited to see things in-person. We […]

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]]> Women’s Day 2019 https://puri.sm/posts/womens-day-2019/ Fri, 08 Mar 2019 15:13:28 +0000 https://puri.sm/?p=62844 Think equal, build smart, innovate for change Is this year’s UN motto for the International Women’s Day. And we find it quite fitting. It suits our own concerns, our own philosophies. In Purism, we care about rights. Digital rights concern everybody, touch most people’s lives, and carry a heavy societal weight when it comes to […]

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]]> Purism’s CEO Todd Weaver Testifies at State Senate https://puri.sm/posts/purisms-ceo-todd-weaver-testifies-at-state-senate/ Wed, 06 Mar 2019 18:45:29 +0000 https://puri.sm/?p=62810 Thank you Chairwoman Jackson and committee members. I am honored to be here. My name is Todd Weaver, and I think you’ll find both Gabriel and I are quite unusual witnesses from the tech sector here today. This is because we are here as the CEOs of growing technology companies that protect privacy rather than […]

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]]> Purism’s CEO Todd Weaver Testifies at California Congressional Privacy Commission https://puri.sm/posts/purisms-ceo-todd-weaver-testifies-at-california-congressional-privacy-commission/ Thu, 21 Feb 2019 00:09:34 +0000 https://puri.sm/?p=62624 Thank you Chairman Chau and committee members. My name is Todd Weaver, and I think you’ll find I’m an unusual witness here today, while I may be sitting side-by-side with impressive privacy protection groups, I am here as the CEO of a rapidly growing technology company based in California. I am here calling for much […]

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]]> An overview of this summer’s community conferences https://puri.sm/posts/2018-summer-conferences/ Sat, 28 Jul 2018 12:00:13 +0000 https://puri.sm/?p=56296 This summer, we have been kept busy with a number of things. As you can see with the many blog posts from the Librem 5 phone development team (many more are scheduled to be published in the coming days and weeks), we have been heavily focused on preparing the software platform for the phone, as […]

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]]> Purism at FestiĞ1 and the Librem as a Digital Hardware Wallet https://puri.sm/posts/purism-at-festig1-and-the-librem-as-a-digital-hardware-wallet/ Wed, 28 Mar 2018 03:15:19 +0000 https://puri.sm/?p=50169 Two weeks ago, I attended an event in Toulouse, France, where I was kindly invited by the organizers, who offered me a booth to present Purism and the Librem line. Purism, utilizing a hardware security element in our Librem Laptops as well as our upcoming Librem 5 phone will be addressing the serious issue of […]

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]]> Upcoming March 2018 events: LibrePlanet, Reddit AMA https://puri.sm/posts/march-2018-events/ Fri, 23 Mar 2018 21:16:39 +0000 https://puri.sm/?p=49791 Ask us anything at LibrePlanet 2018 We are proud to announce that we will be attending and sponsoring the Free Software Foundation’s flagship conference, LibrePlanet, at the MIT this week-end on March 24-25th. We will also be manning a booth there, where you can try out our Librem laptops and see one of our i.MX […]

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]]> Meet us at FOSDEM 2018! https://puri.sm/posts/meet-us-at-fosdem-2018/ Mon, 29 Jan 2018 19:00:31 +0000 https://puri.sm/?p=47914 Are you attending FOSDEM next week-end? So are we! Join us in this massive Free Software event in Brussels on February 3rd and 4th and ask us anything! Members of the Purism design team, Librem 5 development team, and PureOS developers will be meeting up and walking around the event, namely: François, Predrag (Peter), Jeff, […]

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]]> Purism Attends Chaos Communication Congress https://puri.sm/posts/purism-attends-chaos-communication-congress/ Fri, 22 Dec 2017 17:49:43 +0000 https://puri.sm/?p=46159 We are attending the Chaos Communication Congress between December 27th – 30th in Leipzig, Germany. This is one of the largest gatherings of people who are interested in computer security, cryptography, privacy, and free speech in the world. Two of our staff will be attending the event. Youness Alaoui and Zlatan Todoric hope to connect […]

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]]> Le Capitole du Libre 2017 https://puri.sm/posts/le-capitole-du-libre-2017/ Fri, 01 Dec 2017 15:27:34 +0000 https://puri.sm/?p=44777 Artwork by David Revoy A great weekend. A few days ago, I was at Le Capitole du Libre which is one of the main free software events in France. The event was a real success for everyone involved. There were more people than last year, the organization was amazing and I had a very good […]

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]]> Meet the development team at the 2017 Debian Conference https://puri.sm/posts/meet-us-at-debconf-2017/ Thu, 27 Jul 2017 15:00:12 +0000 https://puri.sm/?p=20253 We are proud to announce that we will be sponsoring and attending the 2017 Debian conference from August 1st to August 12 in Montréal, Canada. As PureOS is a derivative of Debian and various members of the team come from the Debian community, it is with great pleasure that we will support this event. Many […]

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]]> Celebrate GNOME’s 20th anniversary with us at GUADEC 2017 https://puri.sm/posts/meet-us-at-guadec-2017/ Tue, 11 Jul 2017 21:17:48 +0000 https://puri.sm/?p=20252 We are proud to announce that we will be attending the GNOME flagship conference, GUADEC, from July 28th to 30th, and co-sponsoring GNOME’s 20th anniversary celebration event at the Manchester Museum of Science and Industry on Saturday the 29th. The local GUADEC organizers make a beautiful parallel between the local heritage of Manchester and the […]

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]]> Bringing Librem 13 v2 and Librem 15 v3 prototypes back from LibrePlanet for further coreboot porting work https://puri.sm/posts/libreplanet-librem-prototypes-for-coreboot-work/ Tue, 28 Mar 2017 16:46:38 +0000 https://puri.sm/?p=16930 A few days ago we gave you a very quick sneak peek of the Librem 15 v3’s anodized black finish as we were doing final preparations for our LibrePlanet 2017 attendance. We were very happy to support the Free Software Foundation by sponsoring LibrePlanet! On Saturday morning, we started setting up our booth slowly, thinking […]

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]]> Getting ready for LibrePlanet and the new Librem 15 v3 https://puri.sm/posts/getting-ready-for-libreplanet-and-the-librem-15-v3/ Fri, 24 Mar 2017 20:53:03 +0000 https://puri.sm/?p=16748 This year, we’re attending and sponsoring LibrePlanet, which is being held this week-end in Boston. Todd and I arrived one day early, as we wanted to seize the opportunity to spend a full day coworking to align our plans (regarding communications, product design and supply chain management), confirm product specifications, and test some new prototypes […]

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]]> Meet us at LibrePlanet 2017 from March 24th to March 26th https://puri.sm/posts/meet-us-at-libreplanet-2017/ Thu, 23 Feb 2017 04:38:05 +0000 https://puri.sm/?p=14840 We are proud to announce that we will be attending and sponsoring the Free Software Foundation’s flagship conference, LibrePlanet, at the MIT on March 25-26th. We will also be manning a booth there, where you can try out our Librem laptops and discuss latest advancements, including our completed port of the Librem 13 to coreboot. […]

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]]> Le Capitole du Libre https://puri.sm/posts/le-capitole-du-libre-2016/ Mon, 12 Dec 2016 22:01:37 +0000 https://puri.sm/?p=10841 I was at “Le Capitole du Libre” on the 19th and 20th of November. It is a Free Software event that takes place every year in the city of Toulouse, in France. I had a booth there, presenting the Librem 13 to visitors during the whole event. I had a very good time! The organization […]

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]]> Purism CEO Todd Weaver interviewed on The New Screensavers episode #65 https://puri.sm/posts/purism-ceo-todd-weaver-interviewed-on-the-new-screensavers-episode-65/ Fri, 26 Aug 2016 20:54:18 +0000 https://puri.sm/?p=5475 Purism CEO Todd Weaver made an appearance on the TWiT network on Saturday August 6th, 2016 with host Leo Laporte on the online TV show The New Screen Savers. Todd and Leo discussed Purism’s Librem line of products and what sets them apart from other free and non-free offerings, the importance of Free/Libre and Open-Source […]

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]]> Meet up at Defcon & Todd joins Leo on The Twit Network https://puri.sm/posts/meet-up-at-defcon-todd-joins-leo-on-the-twit-network/ Sat, 06 Aug 2016 16:27:16 +0000 https://puri.sm/?p=5162 Purism’s Director of Technology, Zlatan Todoric, will be at the Defcon 24 through August 7th.  He will be available for any questions that you may have regarding Purism and our products.  He will also be happy to show off the Librem 13 to anyone wishing to take a look at our hardware.  You can contact […]

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