Re: [Elementary-dev-community] Anyone coming to FOSDEM 2014?
Very nice! I have been looking into firefox OS myself. I'd love to use a phone that has open source as its base. I looked into the blackphone, but unfortunately they seem to be more of the same - their recent update to the FAQ on their website actually makes me completely forget about them now. Their claim: Blackphone is the world's first smartphone to put privacy and control ahead of everything else. Ahead of carriers. Ahead of advertising. Blackphone is re-shaping the landscape of personal communications. The reality: - They haven’t created their own baseband processor for the first Blackphone - Their privacy-oriented tools only work over wifi - They will release as much of Blackphone code as possible into the open source community. Meaning some of it will be proprietary This is a scam! - Their open source OS (except for the parts they won't open source) is derived from Android - google is in bed with NSA, we all know that. - Google continues to shy away from open source in android - They are a centralized corporation. They can be easily gagged and thus no one can be 100% sure what is really happening at their organization. - Full 100% open source and peer-reviewed is the only way to go these days for those who care about their security and privacy. Cheers, Tristan On 4 February 2014, at 23:40 , Sergey Shnatsel Davidoff wrote: Oh, I also got to toy with ZTE OPEN running Firefox OS. That thing is impressive for its specs. Can't wait till Firefox OS hits the local market, Android monopoly on low-end smartphones where it performs even worse than usual is upsetting. -- 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
Re: [Elementary-dev-community] Anyone coming to FOSDEM 2014?
2014-02-05 Tristan Petersen trista...@me.com: Very nice! I have been looking into firefox OS myself. I'd love to use a phone that has open source as its base. Have you looked into Jolla's Sailfish? They haven't released the UI code yet but they are very open-source-friendly and upstream all their contributions in the respective projects, mostly Mer and Nemo. The UI will probably be open-sourced later on. -- Sergey Shnatsel Davidoff -- 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
Re: [Elementary-dev-community] Anyone coming to FOSDEM 2014?
Hasn't the ZTE Open a higher-clocked chip of the Desire C and it seem to performs worse than the Android with the bloaty Sense-UI-stack? Don't want to start a flamewar but 99% of the Firefox OS talk is currently circlejerking ;) - Raphael 2014-02-05 Sergey Shnatsel Davidoff ser...@elementaryos.org: Oh, I also got to toy with ZTE OPEN running Firefox OS. That thing is impressive for its specs. Can't wait till Firefox OS hits the local market, Android monopoly on low-end smartphones where it performs even worse than usual is upsetting. -- 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
Re: [Elementary-dev-community] Anyone coming to FOSDEM 2014?
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 posterhttp://www.redbubble.com/people/libertymaniacs/works/10584039-edward-snowden-i-want-you, 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 http://video.fosdem.org/ 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
Re: [Elementary-dev-community] Anyone coming to FOSDEM 2014?
Oh, I also got to toy with ZTE OPEN running Firefox OS. That thing is impressive for its specs. Can't wait till Firefox OS hits the local market, Android monopoly on low-end smartphones where it performs even worse than usual is upsetting. -- 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
Re: [Elementary-dev-community] Anyone coming to FOSDEM 2014?
Hey guys, Just a quick update - looks like I won't be giving a talk after all. There were almost 3 times more applications than slots this year, but I was oblivious to that and never bothered pitching my talk. Le sigh. But I've already bought plane tickets and it's too late to back out, so I'll be attending it anyway if I get the visa. Looking forward to meeting you guys! -- 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
Re: [Elementary-dev-community] Anyone coming to FOSDEM 2014?
Hey Sergey, I'm not sure yet but if I can get a hotel room and am able to take off from work I might actually come there. Greetings, Fabian On 16 Dec 2013 14:33, Sergey Shnatsel Davidoff ser...@elementaryos.org wrote: Hey guys, I'm going to attend FOSDEM 2014 and give a lightning talk on the performance optimization work we've been doing in elementary OS. Is anybody else is going to attend? It'd be sweet to meet you guys in person! It's also a great keysigning opportunity for such a geographically distributed team. Keys have to be submitted in advance though, so make sure to read https://fosdem.org/2014/keysigning/ See you! -- Sergey Shnatsel Davidoff -- 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
Re: [Elementary-dev-community] Anyone coming to FOSDEM 2014?
Hey all! Yeah that could be a great opportunity to have an elementary meeting there, if there are some other people interested, I will try to go there (Brussels is not that far from my Home) Have a nice week ! Corentin tintou Noël Le 22 déc. 2013 17:57, Fabian Thoma fab...@elementaryos.org a écrit : Hey Sergey, I'm not sure yet but if I can get a hotel room and am able to take off from work I might actually come there. Greetings, Fabian On 16 Dec 2013 14:33, Sergey Shnatsel Davidoff ser...@elementaryos.org wrote: Hey guys, I'm going to attend FOSDEM 2014 and give a lightning talk on the performance optimization work we've been doing in elementary OS. Is anybody else is going to attend? It'd be sweet to meet you guys in person! It's also a great keysigning opportunity for such a geographically distributed team. Keys have to be submitted in advance though, so make sure to read https://fosdem.org/2014/keysigning/ See you! -- Sergey Shnatsel Davidoff -- 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
