Plasma mobile and Fairphone

[Mario Fux]

Am Sonntag, 26. Juli 2015, 15.18:55 schrieb Marco Martin:

Morning guys

As a Fairphone user from the first hour I'm of course all open ears here (oh 
and I use KDE software occasionally too ;-).

> Most important, if anyone has any contact to anybody working there...
> brilliant and let's talk ;)

We were in contact with Fairphone last year about participating in the Randa 
Meetings which in the end didn't happen because of too many events on their 
side. I can try and get in contact this year again. Or I can introduce 
somebody here?

griiits
Mario

> On Sun, Jul 26, 2015 at 10:18 AM, Aleix Pol <aleixpol at kde.org> wrote:
> > 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
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