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The first UBports TouchDown is now over, and what an event it turned out to be! Then it was straight into FOSDEM and the mobile on FOSS stand and another great and busy time with plenty of highlights. There is much to tell you about, so we may as well get on with it.
One surprise takeaway from FOSDEM, for some of the UBports team, was the FOSDEM bug. We hope everyone that did have now crushed that particular bug and is fully recovered, along with everyone else who did so.
UBports TouchDown and FOSDEM
UBports TouchDown
Starting with introductions and initial thoughts, the following day and a half of work and discussions identified six initial areas or buckets of development to concentrate on. Each one will be headed by one person acting as the main contact and focus to see the project through. They were also discussed in the last Q&A so for now we will not repeat it here. Please have a read of the Q&A blog for now, we will be looking at each “bucket” in future newsletters.
We had high hopes for the TouchDown event and what it might achieve in the short and long term for UBports and Ubuntu Touch. We hoped that bringing developers together for the first time after Covid-19 in person would create something special, and it did. Seeing the interaction and involvement between the developers and their passion for the project was really something special. This is only the start, much more will follow.
The following diagram is of the “6 Buckets” of developments decided on at the TouchDown. As mentioned above, further information is available for now in the Q&A blog (https://ubports.com/r/pVY/m/175288).
Fosdem 2024
We were on the end of a very crowded FOSS on mobile stand table. Even before we had all the UT devices set up, the interest and questions started, and it did not stop for the rest of the two days.
Technical, general and how can I do this or that, the questions kept coming while phones were picked up and interacted with. Many, many stickers and leaflets were handed out. Everyone was kept busy and excited by the interest in both Ubuntu Touch and UBports. Of course, meeting and talking with everyone there in person was amazing.
Devices on display included a Bq Aquaris 5HD, just to show how far we have come then a OP5, PInePhone, PinePhonePro with keyboard case, PineTab and PineTab2, Volla Phone, Volla X, Volla 22, Volla X23, Fairphone 4 and Fairphone 5.
Yes you did read that right the Fairphone 5 was at FOSDEM, and it was running 20.04. Not unsurprisingly it got a lot of attention as you would expect. The port was only finished the day before by Nikita from initial work started by Marius.
Additionally, the first day in the Fosdem cantina, we demonstrated Lomiri on the desktop with Ubuntu 24.04. That project is also coming on well, more on that in the next newsletter.
Not only on the stand, there were also the talks to look forward to. Unfortunately, Marius could not make FOSDEM this year and so Ivan and Nikita stepped in bravely to give the VoLTE talk and Oren his excellent Ubuntu Touch on Pine talk. You can watch all of these great talks using the links.
https://ftp.belnet.be/mirror/FOSDEM/video/2024/h1309/fosdem-2024-3378-volte-for-foss.av1.webm
https://video.fosdem.org/2024/h1309/fosdem-2024-2851-the-journey-to-ubuntu-touch-20-04-on-pine64.mp4