Plasma mobile and Fairphone

[Omar Radwan]

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I really don't know a lot, I've been using kde for like 2 years and kde plasma 5 for about a month so far. I would love to help any way I can, but I don't know how to code either, I haven't had the time to learn. And as for contacting someone on the Fairphone board, I happened to come across Bas van Abel's email, which is bas"at"fairphone.com




  Original Message  
From: Aleix Pol
Sent: Sunday, July 26, 2015 1:19 AM
To: plasma-devel at kde.org; Omar Radwan
Subject: Re: Plasma mobile and Fairphone

On Sun, Jul 26, 2015 at 5:46 AM, Omar Radwan <toxemicsquire4 at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi, I heard about your project about Plasma Mobile, which is honestly one of
> the best things I've heard about. I'm really glad you guys made this
> project, because first of all, Android was too Google controlled, iOS,
> we'll, is iOS, Ubuntu is too far away from the regular Linux distro model,
> and Jolla is a closed source piece of garbage. This actually seems like a
> good idea that will appeal to most of us. So I have an idea, since most of
> the phones running Android right now (and every other mobile phone) is like
> super closed source with like the worst of blobs that will never be able to
> be replaced, I have an idea, maybe you guys should discuss with Fairphone‎,
> which I heard were trying to get more open hardware on their phone, which,
> coupled with your goal of a fully open software stack, could be for the
> better of things. Is there any thought about this at all?

Hi Omar,
I also thought about Fairphone at some point, spoiler alert, I love
their work. It definitely makes sense, there's 2 main difficulties: we
lack the people who could approach them (Fairphone or any other
manufacturer, for that matter) with guaranties and I have the
impression it wouldn't be all that easy to adopt the hardware under
our software stack.

On the other hand, I hope we all can pull these issues off, as a community.

The main question is: who is on board and how are you going to help?
Aleix