Sergey Glad you touched on security & privacy concerns. I am new to the elementary dev community, but I am wondering if there has been any talk among the team in this regard. I was drawn to elementary for its simplicity and beauty but at the same time I have strong concerns about security and privacy, more so in light of the NSA revelations.
In that regard, I am wondering if the team has discussed switching to debian as the base because it seems that ubuntu cares less about their users and privacy these days. Cheers, Tristan On 4 February 2014, at 23:35 , Sergey Shnatsel Davidoff wrote: > Okay, it's there and back again! I've just arrived home, got only 1 hour of > sleep on the plane, so take everything I say in the next 18 hours with a > grain of salt. > > FOSDEM was tons of fun! I've kicked it off by donating to GNOME - "Hey guys, > I'm from elementary, we need you to keep up the good work on the libraries!", > to Libre Graphics Magazine - "Oh, you're from elementary? You guys have some > great designers!" (btw, great magazine, I definitely recommend it to everyone > in here who's interested in design), to TOR just to get an awesome Snowden > poster, and finally running into a guy from Jolla totally by accident, > finding out the Jollla schedule for the day and then sieging him with > questions - "Y U NO ship to Russia?!" and so on. > > I really look up to the ex-Nokia developers and designers who went on to > found Jolla - Maemo was a-w-e-s-o-m-e and Sailfish is going to be even > better! So I proceeded to attend their talk about libhybris and then their > community roundtable (it seems my experience making distros and poking > security has come in handy) and finally a community dinner, whee! Now I know > everything I ever wanted about their phone, even got to play with one for a > while. Also chatted with the developers (my N900 caused quite some > nostalgia), plus I got a free hat with "Jolla" on it. Fanboy's dream come > true, that! > > I kinda missed having an elementary tee, I guess I should have ordered one in > advance. No instant props out of nowhere! Looking back, I don't think I ever > did anything not worthy of a representative of the project (for once!), so > hopefully next year... > Too bad nobody else of ours made it there - or just never told me? I'd love > to meet you guys in person. In your absence I had to hit up random Mozilla > guys and discussing fun stuff like Rust and Serval. When I could find them, > anyway :( > > And man, the talks! There were just so many of them! I'll be watching the > ones I missed later on the recordings for sure. No way you can attend all the > interesting ones in just two days. For the security- and privacy-concerned > like me I especially recommend the "NSA operation ORCHESTRA" keynote, it's > great. Software archeology also, for the general audience. And "What's > cooking in GStreamer" will be interesting to people who work with it. > > By the way, Brussels itself is very nice - amazing sculptures everywhere! A > lot of lions among them, too. The royal square alone can be studied for > hours. Definitely recommended. > -- > Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~elementary-dev-community > Post to : elementary-dev-community@lists.launchpad.net > Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~elementary-dev-community > More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~elementary-dev-community Post to : elementary-dev-community@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~elementary-dev-community More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp