Welcome to Qubes Users Berlin!

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

26.06.2026 Qubes OS meetup

Join us on Friday, June 26th, 2026 from 6:00-8:00 PM at x-hain.

Come enjoy a relaxed and welcoming evening with fellow Qubes enthusiasts with friendly discussions about Qubes OS topics & casual networking with like-minded community members.

All topics of interest and your uestions are welcome!

Snacks provided (and great company guaranteed!)

All creatures welcome! <3

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

Recent Meetup Highlights

We had an amazing session last month with Ben where we dove into some interesting development work and had a look over different issues marked as “good first issue” (see below for a link).

One of the issues examined was #9912, which led to a detailed discussion about the implementation approach and fundamental questions regarding policy file handling in the GUI editor. For those curious, check the comments in the issue above for more details.

Corey also worked on Bluetooth-related notification issues, starting with one he experienced and continuing with a follow-up issue, resulting in 2 PRs to qubes-notification-proxy and 1 upstream PR to blueman.

Huge thanks to Ben, the community members who contributed and all the attendees!! <3

For those new to Qubes development and willing to contribute (all skill levels are welcome - everyone is encouraged to participate), check out these beginner-friendly issues to start your contribution journey!

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

29.12.2025

The meetup was led by @marmarek and @marmarta <3 with interesting discussions:

• Overview of Qubes OS
• Diving into the features of Qubes OS 4.3, as well as useful tooling:
• Preloaded disposable VMs
• QWT support
• Seamless mode supported for Windows 10

• Forensics in disposabe qubes: setting the ephemeral config option using

  Command 'config':
    usage: qvm-volume config [--verbose] [--quiet] [--help]
                          VM:VOLUME property value
  

  you can run the specific dispvm exclusively in RAM.

  rw config option for a specific volume is also useful:

  Command 'config':
    usage: qvm-volume config [--verbose] [--quiet] [--help]
                          VM:VOLUME property value
  

  You can verify with qvm-volume info, and the default config value for the particular lvm thin pool, f.ex. qvm-pool info <LVM_THIN_POOL>

• Ansible support and future development planned
• Continued Salt support for Qubes retained
• wyng-util-qubes also for 4.3
• Qubes Video Companion
• On the question of how to help out <3:
• A good starting point would be testing, reviewing and/or fixing minor issues
• For more advanced contributors, perhaps this will be of interest :)
• Or look at the Backlog or Ready columns of Current team tasks and leave a comment if you are interested
• Improve and/or write documentation, (usefule guidelines)
• General contributing guidelines
• “modern” suspend (S0ix, s2idle) debugging hint: look at /sys/kernel/debug/pmc_core/substate_requirements; enable s2idle via qvm-features dom0 suspend-s0ix 1 and reboot

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.