Next steps: forum account, setting up the dev environment
Comms almost complete
So Matrix chat is a bit buggy, but otherwise seems to be working well. So it's time to get the other pieces in place. There is a forum everyone should sign up for as not everyone is going to use Matrix.
Dev Environment
This is a big one. I want to be able to start working on things the day the dev kit is delivered. What's that going to take? Getting started now with a VM, understanding that the VM is going be different than the real hardware. So the VM is apparently a Qemu image... my heart sunk when I first saw that. I love Linux and use it every day, but my dev environment has been MacOSX for close to a decade (that's going to change soon). Luckily I found out that Qemu is in HomeBrew . A quick brew install qemu and I think we should be good to go.
The virtual environment is experimental, so this should be interesting. At the Qemu section in the Purism developer site we have some setup instructions. Always nice to see documentation as a priority on open source projects.