Newsletter Issue 01 — Welcome, What Shipped, What Is Next
The first issue of the EmbeddedOS Foundation newsletter: who we are, what shipped recently, what is being designed next, and how to get involved.
Welcome
This is the first issue of the EmbeddedOS Foundation newsletter — a periodic email for people who want to stay in touch without watching every repository. Each issue rounds up what actually shipped, what is being designed, and where help is needed. Every issue stays readable on the web at this address; there is no subscriber-only content. The Foundation is the Embedded Operating Systems Research Foundation, a 501(c)(3) public charity (EIN 41-4821627) building an open-source operating system for embedded devices. Our five programmes are Open-Source Platform Engineering, Education and Free Curriculum, Research and Publication, Workforce Development, and Community and Ecosystem Stewardship.
What shipped recently
The website now publishes across three feeds. News carries announcements as they happen: recent items include the eAI and eNI releases, the EoSim 2.4 simulator with its hardware-in-the-loop bridge, AES-XTS at-rest encryption in eDB, and the 2026 membership cycle with its three new working groups. The Blog carries longer pieces, such as the eBoot measured-launch walkthrough and the ENI neural-pipeline benchmark plan. The documentation, API reference, free technical books, and Kids Edition are all live and linked from the Resources section of the site.
What is next
On the roadmap: the EoS RTOS work for 2026 (tickless idle, RT-IPC primitives, a formally verified context-switch path), continued eAI edge-runtime development, and steady publishing — at least one article a month — across News and the Blog. The newsletter itself will go out periodically rather than on a fixed schedule; we would rather send six substantive issues a year than twelve thin ones.
How to get involved
Everything the Foundation makes is MIT-licensed and on GitHub under the embeddedos-org organization. Start with the Getting Started guide, browse the open issues, join the discussions, or come to a community event. Financial support goes through the Donate page, which uses a Zeffy-hosted donation form with no platform fee. To be notified of new newsletter issues, use the contact page and mention the newsletter — we will add you to the mailing list and confirm.
About these articles
How these articles are published
Every article on this site renders through this one page, from the Foundation's shared content registry. The title, date, badge, tags, and body all come from the same data the News page lists — which is why the two can never disagree about what an article says or when it appeared.
The registry replaced eight separate article pages whose metadata had drifted apart: seven of them showed a different publication date than the news listing. One source of truth is less interesting than eight bespoke pages, and considerably more honest.
What an article is
Articles are the long form: explanations of how something works, technical writing about the stack, and reflections on the work. News carries the timely announcement; the article carries the full treatment — the reasoning, the context, and the detail that would not fit in a listing.
Each article states its assumptions and links its evidence where evidence exists. The source material behind the technical claims — the code, the measurements, the filings — is public in the Foundation's repositories.
Dates and addresses
The date on an article is its publication date. The address is /article/ followed by the article's slug, and the older /article-xxx addresses from the previous site still resolve to the same pages — nothing already linked or indexed breaks.
If an article is corrected after publication, the correction is noted rather than silently made — the same standard our press releases are held to. The page you are reading is the current version, and the record of what changed stays with it.