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I'm the founder and main electronics and software engineer of MNT Research GmbH, a small company in Berlin Friedenau working on Open Source Hardware portable computers. In the before times I worked mainly on writing software. Academically, I'm a Diplom-Kommunikationswirt (M.A. Communications in Social/Economic Contexts, UdK Berlin). Professionally, I'm interested in OSHW, FOSS, ARM, FPGA, Debian, Mesa, Wayland and Commodore Amiga. Personally, I like batcave, cyberpunk, industrial and making music. I'm non-binary, queer, vegan and sober.
Pronouns: they/them in English, no pronouns or optionally er/ihm in German.
Session
After more than 7 years, a small team of hackers and designers in Berlin are about to release the third generation of their Open Hardware laptop family: MNT Reform Next. Here, Lukas "minute" Hartmann will discuss why we need Open Hardware computers, what we learned through trial, error and hardship of designing and hand-assembling over 1000 of them by hand, and how you can claw back some autonomy over your hardware from Big Computer.