Following up on our conversation yesterday

0 Establish the name. Do it once, and not in conjunction with "UBPorts foundation".
1 Get the moniker right. "A whole mobile operating system experience, that is yours.
Only have "800+ volunteers".
2 Get a screenshot of the desktop in. Would suggest using the birds https://ubuntu-touch.onestein.eu/web/image/64602/background_home-2.jpg and then imposing a fading image onto there.
3 Have the "Get Ubuntu Touch" type buttton in a greener colour. Current one looks reddish on bad panels.
4 Establish what sets UBPorts apart.

Sleek and secure
The best of both worlds.

Copylefted libre software
Use, explore, change, and share — with all.
… [Expandable info]

5 Establish opposition to alternatives.
The banner that says "Designed to last" could say:
Redesigned to last
Your mobile device can receive software upgrades for many more years to come.
Bring your phone back to life.

6 Image of connecting said old phone to a screen to use it as a computer, with a desktop showing an app.

7. Remove the CoC and every mention of it.

At this point I think the case is made.

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The installer pages

"Stuck on your default OS?"
This ties someone elses OS to the user with "yours". "Default" lends credibility to it.
"A whole mobile operating system experience, that is yours" does better, but reusing the already established moniker wins points.

move to "copylefted libre software"

I think the confusion over calling Ubuntu Touch "UBPorts" is that it would logically follow that
The "UBPorts Installer" installs "UBPorts".
Having it be "Ubuntu Touch/installer" allows saying "About" rather than "About Ubuntu Touch"

Drop "It's simple". Make it look simple.
Show screenshots/an animation of the whole process.

"Command line tool" → "Command-line tool".
Drop every menion of "we", "you can" and so on.
Line-shift at "Select the appropriate".
Mac → macOS
deb → .deb
snap → Snap

Remove the exclamations

enable developer mode → turn on developer mode

Get the mascot off the logos of other OSes.
Align the download symbols rightwards and the icons leftwards.

Github → GitHub

will enable you → lets you

Have one selection of downloads.

smart-phones → smartphones
Issues tracker → Issue tracker
& → and

Email → E-mail

Don't hide the questions behind clicks.

Support A Device → Support a Device
Report a Bug → Report bugs
Fund Development → Fund development

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Between the lot of us we can really make this shine.
https://ubuntu-touch.io has said "focussed" for quite some time, so it is all about honing the details and getting to the point with the fewest amount of distractions.

These are the things we talked about already in the new meeting yesterday:

o Download the installer
Unlock bootloader
What OS do you have on your PC

1 Image of connecting to PC
2 Go through the installer, video link
3 Images of all the OS-icons, with screenshots below

Just "Promotoed"

"Just Volla" (not --- Devices)

Can be bought with Ubuntu Touch preinstalled.
We get a kickback for each device sold.

Bigger links

"Others"

These are less ethical devices, and are only supported (and currently maintained) through great community effort.

Poxo x9
Lenovo Tab

Pixel 3a only
   
Donate page

Info → information

Paypal PayPal

Monthly preselected 


On average people donated an amount we are truly grateful for,
because with every donation —

• A future where users define devices.

Tax deducable for whom?


Remove paypal link directly


Move community tab to actual pages

Saves on menu items, and explanations of where they are


Linux native devices

What about my device?

Maybe as is often the case your device manufacturer decided your device isn't yours.
The UBPorts community is doing what it can to free crucial parts of the device hardware support,
and support as many devices as possible.

Priview/testing images

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These are the remaining (first pages) to sort:

We, the community

(Link to contribution areas)

• Try Ubuntu Touch
• Get in touch
• Translate
• Write code
• Help documentation
• Help the newsletter
• Video editing
• Design

Freedom of choice

Dominated by few corporations,
that in return for your data –
how, what and where you communicate,
only offer services of dependency.

Here you have as many opportunities as everyone.

Manifesto?

Ubuntu Touch

Classic productivity in modern interaction, in privacy.

• Try it
• Browse apps

Order, installer, OS, Lomiri, Indicator, Halium, all in paragraph style

Community continued after Ubuntu Touch was no longer lead by Canonical,
in keeping the OS going.
Reducing the negative impact of the mobile phone industry.

Hello

Fill inn the "Join us" form if you want an onboarding meeting.

Donations as a bubble

Of the core project

Marketing and UI/UX

Apps and core

Podcasts, video, social media.

Join us over contribution areas

GitHub GitLab

Local groups

---

The foundation was founded by mm mm mm in 2017.
Private and corporate sponsors could thus contribute.
Financial, organizational, and legal support is offered.
All contributions to the legal entity produce
maintained results for public benefit.

---

Ubuntu Touch development

Learn a new skill, or handle something you know how to do.
These are good points to have on your CV.
The product thrives as everyone does their thing.

GTK apps

Make better titles.

When your friends look at phones you think are expensive, that is their choice.
You understand you are not a good user, but you want justification
for every scenario you can come up with.
The model is working just fine, the approach is sound, and the OS progresses in directions people want it to.

You have no plan. You parted with your money.
Where are you happy in any scenario?

Your friends can buy cheap devices with UBPorts on it?

That is what the market does.
Price goes down, the amount of players go up, and the OS improves over time.

There are a lot of things to do about the OS.

Yes it looks like it is "updated", and that is because
most modern things are soulless representations of their prior art.
Canonical rolled out yet another attempt at recreating itself.

It wants to sell you things, and it is a closely knit business-first venture.
It has little to nothing to do with what UBPorts is doing.
It wasn't so much that they tried to find somewhere new to go, they were already there
and the logo didn't match.

Their own guidelines say to use colours to represent community. Their colour is orange.
This means the community is around the project, not inside of it. Again a question of alignment.
The newest logo looks looks left-aligned by mistake, which was a smaller problem in the first attempt to recreate it.

The square and negative space logo is already out of date.
It is a cheap trick to get as much real-estate out of available (often square) space available.
It works if you can own the colour, and it is a question of making sure "brand awareness" hits often and hard. No elegance to it at all. Not saying it doesn't work, but that is what it is.
Rip away the gimmicks and it is evident how poor an attempt it is.

The newest logo has no acuity.
There is now what looks like a compound curve because of the edge smoothing next to the faces, which is the entire thing to avoid in the first place.
This happens when you don't understand design, and you don't understand the design you are working with.
The size diminishes, it is harder to make out, and the air and composition of the elements are now gone.

Without the stopgap logo in between, the same generational corruption is now total.

It is pretty bad when a stock-logo when searching for "three people in circle logo" is better than two attempts at changing something that worked.

Logically the next iteration will be three people leaning all the way in for a time-out pep-talk amongst themselves.

That or they understand to make the hands two smaller balls at each side, so it looks like someone is actually holding hands and not hunched over each-other.
Or the circle gets fatter, and it is just cut-outs for heads in two curved cutouts for each head.
Effectively the "hands" just grow, to the same width as the original logo.
My money is on this one since it has even less entropy, and in less than 5 years.

Make better titles.

When these "modern" OS-es start, the clean desktop is shown,
meaning the user knows it is there, and for some reason the starting state is off limits if there is one or more programs open.

elementaryOS also does this.
Even the keyboard shortcut to show the desktop is removed.
The section isn't even there anymore.

Would be interesting to see what kind of problems people think they are solving by implementing this.

It is 100% against convention of anyone touching a computer or device the last 30 years.
The upside seems to be not accidentally minimizing something you are working on.

It is also not how the system the user is familiar with and is using has functioned in the past. For my own sake I will say this makes me think of something I know I can use, into something where I think I can't figure it out and no change was needed.
And no, it just isn't possible anymore. No explanation.

The mind compartmentalizes information in structural hierarchies, and the spatial awareness to keep track of this is something you can do with cognition, but the ability to look at a clean slate actually has function.
It is the closest thing you get to seeing where your files are by default.

Yes, that place someone decided no files are to be shown,
before they decided file hierarchy is something the user shouldn't do.

There is a serenity to having just a clean slate to go back to.
It is as familiar, and not having what you are doing visible on the screen is useful.

It also has the benefit of vested interest and familiarity in that the user often changes the desktop. Thus making it their machine.

When your friends look at phones you think are expensive, that is their choice.
You understand you are not a good user, but you want justification
for every scenario you can come up with.
The model is working just fine, the approach is sound, and the OS progresses in directions people want it to.

You have no plan. You parted with your money.
Where are you happy in any scenario?

Your friends can buy cheap devices with UBPorts on it?

That is what the market does.
Price goes down, the amount of players go up, and the OS improves over time.

There are a lot of things to do about the OS.

Leaving this here for next meeting and some editing to be done.

First header cut to make the community picture look like a boat.

Help
Defend
Promote
Collaborate
Raise funds
Make roadmaps
Something to take from the first blurb. Foundation blurb still to painful.

One adapting environment.

No background for Halium logo
Screenshot simplified for UBPorts installer.

"A community persisted after Canonicals lead, keeping wheels turning and changing what matters."

Collapsible microblog screenshot.

Step it up with us. Come and say hello.

Lomiri comes preinstalled on Ubuntu Touch devices.

With less RAM
→ even on slower devices.
…

Available as Ubuntu preview images for desktops and laptops.

Install Lomiri

• No gray background (nor for donation background).

You deserve an alternative to limitations not even mobile device manufacturers should be beholden to.

Remove "together we carve"-line. It is morbid.

Work side by side a lively community

Work aside a lively community.

Work as one with the community.

Build reputation
Integrate employees with and hire community experts

Official support from

Blacker phone at "from the OpenStore"

Remove or move away pages not to be made now.

"Community" and "foundation" should logically be the same page.

"Promoted devices" - partner devices.
"Volla" "Fairphone" "Pine64"

These devices from trusted community and industry partners are reliable as daily drivers.
When you buy from partners you help development towards every single issue fixed.

Donations

"grateful for, to"

Better and simplified phone at main page, also tablet and PC,
combined, for both the environment and the device sizes.

"→" is where anything changes.

Page 2, almost at the top "Ubuntu Touch"

"Take back control of your smartphone → Take back control of your device.
Even better:
→ "Take control of what should be your device." (This ties in with "Bring your device back to life")

Page 2, "UBPorts installer"

→ "Put a better operating system on your mobile device,
like Ubuntu Touch, and PostmarketOS on phones,
and AsteroidOS on smartwatches.""

Page 2, bottom "Halium"

"That for" → "for"

(possible "atop" here. The other one is "on top of a read-only file system")

Page 3, almost at the top

"We are here to help you at every step. Join and say hello" → "We are with you for every step. Join and say hello."

Page 7, almost top, "Ubuntu Touch apps" headline

→ "Apps on Ubuntu Touch"

"From the OpenStore"

→ "— you get apps that switch seam …

Page 7, bottom "Android apps"

"Run your favorite apps in Ubuntu Touch using Waydroid" "Run your favorite Android apps using Waydroid"

→ "— can be ran using Waydroid. Integrates with Halium to provide all hardware features."

"From the OpenStore" or "web" → "or the web".

Page 7, bottom "Even more packages"
→ "Even more"

→ "Run apps from regular Ubuntu by using the snapz0r app allow running Snap packages.""

"so apps don't have direct hardware access" → "to prevent direct hardware access"

"Providing the most usable privacy-friendly user-experience, while"
"mono-cultural systems" → "closed systems

Page 8, top

"by users respecting privacy highly" → "by respecting users' privacy highly"
"
AppArmor is a layer that ensure your apps only see what you want them to.

Page 11, bottom "Disclaimer"

→ Remove the word "Remember"

These are the things we talked about already in the new meeting yesterday:

o Download the installer
Unlock bootloader
What OS do you have on your PC

1 Image of connecting to PC
2 Go through the installer, video link
3 Images of all the OS-icons, with screenshots below

Just "Promotoed"

"Just Volla" (not --- Devices)

Can be bought with Ubuntu Touch preinstalled.
We get a kickback for each device sold.

Bigger links

"Others"

These are less ethical devices, and are only supported (and currently maintained) through great community effort.

Poxo x9
Lenovo Tab

Pixel 3a only
   
Donate page

Info → information

Paypal PayPal

Monthly preselected 


On average people donated an amount we are truly grateful for,
because with every donation —

• A future where users define devices.

Tax deducable for whom?


Remove paypal link directly


Move community tab to actual pages

Saves on menu items, and explanations of where they are


Linux native devices

What about my device?

Maybe as is often the case your device manufacturer decided your device isn't yours.
The UBPorts community is doing what it can to free crucial parts of the device hardware support,
and support as many devices as possible.

Priview/testing images

---

These are the remaining (first pages) to sort:

We, the community

(Link to contribution areas)

• Try Ubuntu Touch
• Get in touch
• Translate
• Write code
• Help documentation
• Help the newsletter
• Video editing
• Design

Freedom of choice

Dominated by few corporations,
that in return for your data –
how, what and where you communicate,
only offer services of dependency.

Here you have as many opportunities as everyone.

Manifesto?

Ubuntu Touch

Classic productivity in modern interaction, in privacy.

• Try it
• Browse apps

Order, installer, OS, Lomiri, Indicator, Halium, all in paragraph style

Community continued after Ubuntu Touch was no longer lead by Canonical,
in keeping the OS going.
Reducing the negative impact of the mobile phone industry.

Hello

Fill inn the "Join us" form if you want an onboarding meeting.

Donations as a bubble

Of the core project

Marketing and UI/UX

Apps and core

Podcasts, video, social media.

Join us over contribution areas

GitHub GitLab

Local groups

---

The foundation was founded by mm mm mm in 2017.
Private and corporate sponsors could thus contribute.
Financial, organizational, and legal support is offered.
All contributions to the legal entity produce
maintained results for public benefit.

---

Ubuntu Touch development

Learn a new skill, or handle something you know how to do.
These are good points to have on your CV.
The product thrives as everyone does their thing.

GTK apps

@Capsia

Very good points.

"An operating system where nobody has more power than you."
is good for the moniker.
Different right off the bat. It piques the interest of why and how,
and then it is volunteers and values from there.
Ties into copylefted libre software, and then the explanation thereof.

I think the https://ubuntu-touch.onestein.eu/web/image/64602/background_home-2.jpg could be upright if that is what it takes to get the proper insight for what is going on at the desktop.
Without the internal "on-screen" line, if that is OK for the author.

Dropping "UBPorts" from what is then just "Installer" makes sense. Having other OS alternatives behind "other OSes" in the actual installer also makes sense when downloaded from Ubuntu-touch.io.
"Ports installer" maybe?
Harking back to the main idea being to buy devices preloaded with a good OS.

Reject modernity.

Following up on our conversation yesterday

0 Establish the name. Do it once, and not in conjunction with "UBPorts foundation".
1 Get the moniker right. "A whole mobile operating system experience, that is yours.
Only have "800+ volunteers".
2 Get a screenshot of the desktop in. Would suggest using the birds https://ubuntu-touch.onestein.eu/web/image/64602/background_home-2.jpg and then imposing a fading image onto there.
3 Have the "Get Ubuntu Touch" type buttton in a greener colour. Current one looks reddish on bad panels.
4 Establish what sets UBPorts apart.

Sleek and secure
The best of both worlds.

Copylefted libre software
Use, explore, change, and share — with all.
… [Expandable info]

5 Establish opposition to alternatives.
The banner that says "Designed to last" could say:
Redesigned to last
Your mobile device can receive software upgrades for many more years to come.
Bring your phone back to life.

6 Image of connecting said old phone to a screen to use it as a computer, with a desktop showing an app.

7. Remove the CoC and every mention of it.

At this point I think the case is made.

---

The installer pages

"Stuck on your default OS?"
This ties someone elses OS to the user with "yours". "Default" lends credibility to it.
"A whole mobile operating system experience, that is yours" does better, but reusing the already established moniker wins points.

move to "copylefted libre software"

I think the confusion over calling Ubuntu Touch "UBPorts" is that it would logically follow that
The "UBPorts Installer" installs "UBPorts".
Having it be "Ubuntu Touch/installer" allows saying "About" rather than "About Ubuntu Touch"

Drop "It's simple". Make it look simple.
Show screenshots/an animation of the whole process.

"Command line tool" → "Command-line tool".
Drop every menion of "we", "you can" and so on.
Line-shift at "Select the appropriate".
Mac → macOS
deb → .deb
snap → Snap

Remove the exclamations

enable developer mode → turn on developer mode

Get the mascot off the logos of other OSes.
Align the download symbols rightwards and the icons leftwards.

Github → GitHub

will enable you → lets you

Have one selection of downloads.

smart-phones → smartphones
Issues tracker → Issue tracker
& → and

Email → E-mail

Don't hide the questions behind clicks.

Support A Device → Support a Device
Report a Bug → Report bugs
Fund Development → Fund development

---

Between the lot of us we can really make this shine.
https://ubuntu-touch.io has said "focussed" for quite some time, so it is all about honing the details and getting to the point with the fewest amount of distractions.