Open Edge Platform x Dublin Linux Community, 12th of Nov 2025

[karla-nieminen]

Dublin Linux Community and Linux Developers Ireland Meetup groups, with their 1500+ combined members, had the pleasure of hosting a tech talk event on Wed 12th of Nov 2025 with the Open Edge Platform as the main topic. Big thanks to Intel for making the evening possible, and here are some of the content highlights and photos, documented for those interested.

First talk of the evening was by Krishnamurthy Jambur, the Principal Engineer from Intel Limerick. We started from the edge computing big picture and understanding the current need for bringing processing closer to where data is generated, enabling faster speeds, higher volumes, and real-time, action-driven results. Next we dove deeper into the Open Edge Platform, Edge AI libraries, edge-optimized operating systems and infrastructure management, and how these can help manage millions of diverse nodes, deploy workloads, and keep applications secure and observable at scale.

The presentation was followed by a demo by Andrei Palade, Cloud Orchestration Software Engineer from the Intel EMF team, on actually setting up a k3s cluster with the Edge Manageability Framework. We saw in action how the device onboarding and lifecycle management work, and indeed they did, with the combination of video and live explanation. Questions afterwards included for example: which are the most common devices used with the framework, details on use cases for education workstations & large Telcos, how vPro in practise can wipe the hardware in theft situations and how the immutable Azure Linux / Edge Microvisor toolkit handles updates.

Last talk of the evening was by Cooklang founder Alex Dubowski on lessons learned while distributing tools across different Linux environments. Cooklang has a lively community for food recipes that programmers can version-control, view as shopping lists, and share.

After the talks the most durable group of people, not caring about the Irish rain, found their way to the pub next door to continue the discussions. The first round of Guinness is also documented in the below photos. Thank you everyone!

[biapalmeiro]

What a wonderful summary. Thanks for sharing, @karla-nieminen