Welcome to the UBports community! Introduce yourself here!

Opolork

dcmike

Hey All,

My name is Mike C. I have been using Ubuntu since college back in the 6.06 days when everything was brown. I was also heavily into openmoko back in the day when that seemed like our best hope for an open phone . I got into the LoCo groups a bit and after college I was hired by a software company doing tech support and bug reports and what not. I am a bit of a privacy nerd and I like Ubuntu Touch for it's potential to allow me to move away from apple and android ecosystems. Hopefully when I get the pinephone in my hand I can go to work reporting bugs and doing testing. I have some experience in Python programming but I am not much of a programmer to be honest. I think the biggest areas I could contribute in would be testing, and documentation. But those are two roles that every project needs filled so I am looking forward to getting my hands dirty.

Opolork

Greetings @dcmike.

AppLee

Welcome @dcmike

Here you might find some useful information:
https://ubports.com/meet-the-community

rmw408

Hello All,

I am Robert Wurster and I am brand new to UT. I have ordered the UBports CE PinePhone and am looking to get involved in FOSS projects as I am tired of the "Big Three" selling my info to the highest bidder. I am here to put my efforts and resources to work creating an alternative.

I have been a Linux user for the last couple of years and a tech enthusiast as long as I can remember. I look forward to helping out.

I am most interested in getting the word out to more casual users, so that more and more development is feasible.

Robert Wurster

AppLee

@rmw408
Hello Robert and welcome.

If you want to help you can check out the link I put in my previous comment.
You can join our matrix and telegram groups.

BR

Opolork

@rmw408 Greetings, Robert.

miranda

Hi there!

I'm Miranda, I'm 24 years old and I've been working as a graphic designer for quite some time now (Macfag here yet only because Serif apps don't run on Linux). I'm responsible for the communications on a NGO called Instituto LGBT+ (an Institute of Culture, Arts and LGBT+ memory), and always loved programming and things related to tech, so I always help as I can our technology team, since we are a very small group, we bounce back and fourth in different areas.

I guess it's been like 2 years that I found out about Ubuntu Touch and was really amazed, because inside tech, topics like privacy, cyber security and community based open source projects are things that I'm completely passionate about.

Right now I'm aiming to finally focus on programming, something that I played with since I was a child (it was dope building a ragnarok server haha) but never felt confident enough to be an actual programmer. As a trans person, the tech world can be pretty daunting, because we never know if we will be welcomed and respected, and I'm still trying to find the guts to deep dive into this big passion I always had for this area. By the way, I use neutral and masculine pronouns (they/them and he/him).

I really wanted to have a phone running Ubuntu Touch, but I'm from Brazil and there's only two sad realities: or the phones that are old and run UT are never found (ebay is not an option because dollar is like almost 6x our currency + taxes) or the newer phones like oneplus one didn't even arrived here yet. I will just keep hoping the dollar goes down so I can buy a Pinephone, haha.

I really want to help with the OS development and applications development, and I'll use my interest to see Ubuntu Touch growing to learn new skills to do so

I'm open to tips on what topics I should learn more about to be truly helpful here!

And I also talk a lot.

Keneda

@miranda
Welcome.
What market place do you use to buy online? There is no localised ebay to Brazil?
Sadly, i don't think real will increase as much as 1 to 1 with dollar.
Nexus 5 is quite the same age than 1P1 and may be easier to find on your local market (it costs between 50 to 100$).

Here in France, before, when franc was our currency, it was 6.5x lower than dollar, now with euro, 1€=1.2$, but we earn 6.5x less euros every month than we earned in franc, adding to this that most companies convert 1€ to 1$, and not 1€ to 1.2$... So 1=1 does not necessarily solve that kind of problem.

miranda

@Keneda we do have ebay here (but the phones I found are imported, never from local sellers so the infamous taxes still apply), and a couple of interesting market places. I searched for the nexus 5 and mostly were broken or in poorly conditions, mostly to retrieve pieces intead of using the phone, although there are tons of replacements pieces and covers for nexus 5. Unfortunately here we don't have the costume of taking really good care of phones to sell it in the future, people usually throw it of or break it. I did found one in good conditions but the seller didn't sent it through post mail and I'm from another city, so no deal

And indeed, with covid-19 I do not see dollar going down so soon, even worse with the actual president.

Lakotaubp

@miranda Hello and welcome this link maybe useful https://ubports.com/meet-the-community

Opolork

@miranda Greetings!

Moem

I want to introduce myself but my post keeps getting flagged as spam.

Opolork

@Moem Greetings.

Moem

Hello! Trying again... maybe a shorter post will work. I've been reading through people's introductions, and interesting stuff like the meet-the-community page, and it might be time to introduce myself here.
I'm Moem, or at least that's how a lot of folks know me. The name came from one of my favourite books. I'm active in the Dutch hackerspaces community and on the Linux Mint forum where I'm a moderator. I'm Dutch.

Lakotaubp

@Moem Hello again and welcome. Let me know if you are still having issues.

Moem

@Moem
Continued:
I installed Linux Mint five years ago and things went downhill from there My first smartphone was an already outdated Blackphone and I enjoyed the option to use as few Google-linked apps as possible. Then a Oneplus One was dropped into my lap, taking things even further down that path. LineageOS is pretty neat. Recently I heard that Ubuntu Touch runs on that phone too! So I got myself a cheap used one with a broken screen glass, and here I am. New glass is in the mail, UT is installed and I like it. Once the phone has been repaired I'll put my SIM in it and see how I like it in actual practice as a daily driver.

I'm not at all a developer but I do enjoy tinkering and UT feels like a community of tinkerers. It feels lively and fresh and I'm happy to be here.

@Lakotaubp Working now, thank you!

Keneda

@Moem
lol uTouch not so fresh to me after 5 years using it, but yes you can say that ^^
Welcome :grinning_face:

Fritzle

Hi,

I am Michael and live in Germany. Linux-wise I privately left the Microsoft world for Ubuntu about 12 years ago and switched from there to ArchLinux about 3 years ago to tailor the system more to my needs and to aviod regular completely new installs.

I became aware of the Pinephone a while ago and was very interested to have a phone which I have completely under my control.
Ubuntu Touch was not my first choice, but I went ahead and got a Nexus Hammerhead anyway just to tinker with it.
While I am impressed with how well 16.04 is working, the documentation is lacking. Most things I want to know I find in the forum, as some have already had the same question. I really miss documentation on how it "ticks" internally and where to tweak using command line. Like in the ArchLinux Wiki
Update: some help is to be found in the ubuntuusers wiki, but I have the impression there are some differences here.

BR Michael

AppLee

@Fritzle
Welcome Michael,
If you want to help with the documentation or anything else, you can start by checking this link: https://ubports.com/meet-the-community