Welcome to Qubes Users Berlin!

We are a group of Qubes OS users who meet monthly in Berlin.

Next meetup

Next meetup is scheduled for Friday, the 28.11.2025 from 6 till 8 p.m. at x-hain

Except the evergreens and free discussions, feel free to reach out or just drop by and talk about your favourite topic of ubes OS interes! :)

Current topics include:

• Introducing Qubes OS: A beginner’s perspective and a hands-on experience
• Whonix templating in Qubes OS - tips & tricks
• Qubes OS documentation localization

All creatures welcome!

Please consult the calendar of x-hain for further information.

Future meetups

In future meetups we want to discuss

• OpSec strategies with Qubes OS - Join us for practical discussion, insights and strategies to safeguard your digital activities!
• Android in Qubes OS cont’d

Past meetups

27.6.2025

Some of the topics include:

• Deep dive into preloaded disposable qubes with a demo of the development environment by Ben
• With two new issues raised following the discussion and conversation:
  • Issue 10026
  • Issue 10027
• Exploring Qubes RPC policies and qrexec source code
• Background and refresher on Qubes RPC policies and Qubes Admin API:
  • Qrexec: secure communication across domains
  • Qrexec: Qubes RPC internals
  • Qubes Admin API
  • Forum Thread

and some useful tools like:

• qubes-policy-editor
• qubes-policy-editor-gui (dom0)
• vim-qrexec plugin

27.5.2025

• Give i3 a try with an example setup

Sinni talked about their setup with a follow up discussion <3 !

25.4.2025

We did discuss some pretty cool topics: preloaded disposable qubes, salted site-specific browser qubes & Android in Qubes OS:

1. We got a peak into a very exciting Qubes OS feature in development by Ben - preloaded disposable qubes
2. Salted site-specific browser qubes revisited by Corey see
3. Discussion & further collaborations on site regarding Android on Qubes OS inspired by the forum post by norkelcake and bae9e4f7
4. GrapheneOS - apart from syncing the repo and building for emulator nothing much :) wip - play with kernel parameters with the notable warning that this disregards security features. GrapheneOS Team has plans though :)

28.3.2025

We looked at some Salt and Android use cases in Qubes OS:

• Salted site-specific browser qubes!
  • Corey talked about salting a web qube and also shared his repo! We will continue the discussion in April!
• Android Use Cases in Qubes OS
  • We continued the engaging discussion from our last meetup. snorkelcake and bae9e4f7 wrote a guide for how to setup an android qube which is available on the forum.

Monthly meetings

Qubes Users Berlin monthly meetings are currently every last Friday of each month!

We will meet every last Friday of each month at xHain, a hackerspace at Grünberger Str. 16 in Friedrichshain. We abide by xHain’s hygiene concept.

We look forward to discussing topics related to Qubes OS with you! :)

A small presentation/discussion on different topics is planned for every meeting. As well as snacks! :)

If you are interested and want to present something related to Qubes OS yourself, please don’t hesitate and write us an email!

Stay tuned!

Mailing list

You are welcome to join our mailing list, where we announce meetings and discuss items.

Social media

If you wish, you can connect with us on bluesky and mastodon.

Code of conduct

The meeting is covered by Qubes OS Code of Conduct and Berlin Code of Conduct.