# FOSDEM 2020 and Hardware Announcements

DevFeed: [FOSDEM 2020 and Hardware Announcements](<https://devfeed.tech/articles/fosdem-2020-and-hardware-announcements-34806.md>)

Original publisher: [Read original article](<https://pine64.org/2020/02/03/fosdem-2020-and-hardware-announcements/>)

Published: 2020-02-03T00:00:00Z

Content type: news

Language: en

Sources: [Community blog on PINE64](<https://devfeed.tech/sources/community-blog-on-pine64.md>)

Topics: [FOSDEM](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/fosdem.md>), [Pinephone](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/pinephone.md>), [Hardware](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/hardware.md>), [Mobile](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/mobile.md>)

Tags: [announcements](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/announcements.md>), [community](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/community.md>), [cube](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/cube.md>), [devices](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/devices.md>), [fosdem](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/fosdem.md>), [hardrock64](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/hardrock64.md>), [hardware](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/hardware.md>), [mobile](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/mobile.md>), [pinephone](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/pinephone.md>), [soedge](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/soedge.md>)

## AI overview

PINE64 reports on its community gathering at FOSDEM 2020, including strong attendance at its stall, PinePhone case giveaways, appearances at partner stalls, and Linux phone discussions. The article also introduces hardware announcements limited to plans for the first two quarters of 2020, but the supplied text does not include their details.

## Source excerpt

PINE64 get-together with community devs and partner-projects at FOSDEM 2020 Sorry for the delay in delivering FOSDEM news and announcements to you - I was too occupied with great company, splendid beer and shouting at hundreds of people across our stall table. It was awesome to see so many familiar faces, meet new ones and socialise with projects we usually don't get an opportunity to talk with. Some of you may have already seen pictures or videos of our stall at FOSDEM overflowing with people; I am happy to say that we were one of the most - if not the most - besieged stall at FOSDEM this year. There literally was a wall of people at the stall at all times, and if not for our community members and partner-project devs we'd probably not cope. This also had the effect of being as much our booth as that of Manjaro, UBports, Nemo mobile, KDE, postmarketOS, Aurora, Meamo Leste and others :) Crowd at the PINE64 stall FOSDEM 2020 In the January community update we announced that if you are attending FOSDEM, and already had a PinePhone on order or with you, then we'd have a surprise piece of swag for you. As some of you already know, the swag in question was a choice of a hard or soft PinePhone case. Over the course of ~8 hours that we were at the stall we gave well over 100 cases. It was really exciting to see so many PinePhone early adopters at FOSDEM. Soft (silicone) case left, hard case right Apart from our cramp little corner of FOSDEM, you could also check out PINE64 devices at the KDE and OpenHAB stalls. There was also a talk by Merlijn Wajer and Bart Ribbers (youtube video linked) concerning Linux phones as well as a joint BOF with Purism (my thanks go out to Dalton and Bhushan for taking the lead on this), where a significant portion of the time was dedicated to the PinePhone in particular. In other words, there were many PINE64 accents all over FOSDEM, which made me realise how much we've grown in the past two years. KDE stall FOSDEM 2020 However, to us, FOSDEM m