As an answer to a my ultimate question of life, the universe, and everything, Deep Thought suggested me to reach 42 stickers:

@prog-amateur I gave you the -1 "like" not because of your question, but because your imply, without knowing its purpose, that it "allows redirections to Canonical servers" coming to suspect a GDPR incompatibility and ending by asking what else (not if else)" is sent as a telemetry from OS/app to whatever company/organization". All after the initial sentence, resuming or reminding the Ubports sentence in the website about the care about freedom of choice and privacy, as it were a lie, and asking "clear answers" assuming the ubports foundation has ever in some way given unclear or ambiguous answers or/to hide the truth behind them or has reason to do so..

so that -1 is for the chosen style and the tone of the question that I personally perceive and didn't like, not for the question. about your question, because it is a good question, this was my answer: https://github.com/ubports/morph-browser/pull/250

ps: I'm not in any way endorsed by or affiliated with ubports and what I say may not be what ubports thinks

IMHO it's fundamental that the icon resemble the original one obviously avoiding any trademark infringing. I think we can use the original "3D-ish" icon as a base and colors (so to keeping similarity with the official one and make it discernable from the Unav one) and apply on it some of the UT official graphic guideline/style so to avoid trademark infringing.
for example something like:

and

they both are in origami style. in the first the geometry and the style of the paper airplane is different from the original/official logo (it'is another paper airplane ;)). the second is more similar in terms of geometry but the teleport effect make it whole new icon.

Hi guys,
as a way to spread UT/UBports I think could be also useful to make more famous our logos/mascot to the world.
One of our main communication channel is based on telegram that is the perfect platform for some of our marketing purpose for various reasons:

• it is used on smartphonens

• it is supported on UT (thank you guys!)

• it is used by people prone to try something different even if it is (still) less used than whatsapp

• it has stickers

I started to make a little collection of yumi images based on this guideline and using telegram guidelines
Our current sticker pack has "only" 13 images so I tried to expand it (actually I've 35) and substitute some of them with new one, :
eg

vs

A more completed pack is more probable being used in our and other telegram channels spreading the world Yumi mascot and UBports logo.

So now I've some questions for the UBports Foundation:

• Could this be useful for you?
• Am I infringing your trademark
  • do I need an official approval?
    • do I need only an official approval for the whole stickers pack or
    • do I need an official approval for each sticker?
• do exist already a sticker project/place where I can contribute?
  thank you!

because this is a more stable configuration than a circle
Jokes aside, when I made this symbol I was thinking of the third generation of Ubuntu DE (after gnome and unity7, our beloved unity8) and

• to the three elements of the project:
  • the foundation,
  • the community,
  • all the mainstream projects,
• and to the three levels of the system:
  • the device,
  • the OS,
  • the applications,
• or
  • the hardware,
  • the software ,
  • the user.

new two stickers are coming:

this is for the next UT code cleaning

and this is for the next features requests

@Flohack I don't have to motivate the people.

I don't think you can look in his eyes and say to him "no"

@UBportsNews I have already contributed here and there but have done only little things. I'm studyng how to develop on UT but I'm only an hobbyist so I'm not a so good investment...
But, I found that there are at least two other italian UT users near me (less than 30km, and they are very active in the Italian UBports telegram group) and I'm already thinking of share with them my rpi4 to help each other in the develop and test process. Also in Mezzago (a town 7km from my home) there is a little but lively linux community that could be interested in the UT and its app development.
Last but not the least I directly know and I'm friend with many guys from informatics engineering (from the university Politecnico di Milano) with which I collaborate in the Openstreetmap project and wikimedia foundation and that could be interested in software development on more exotic platform like UT

what about the canonical plan about "ubuntu personal" (snappy-ubuntu-core+mir+unity8)? is it still a thing?

is there any plan about porting ubuntu touch on lowcost arm boards (eg. like raspberry Pi3) so the developers could test their apps and the system without having to buy a compatible smartphone?

[OT] is there any plan to bring an Ultrafast or Hyperfast Broadband connection to the Marius G.'s home? his lags in the UT Q&A videos are one of the moments that I look forward to

@Pulsar33 I don't know what to think....

here Marius says that this is a mir problem (January 2020)

here the mir developers say that is a mesa problem (7 august 2020)
and here the mesa developers said they had the problem (2 august 2019) but already corrected that ( 15 august 2019)...for them mesa works correctly on rpi4 (and hardware accelerated)...

Q1: why Sphinx was choosed for our documentation instead of (e.g.) mediawiki? what are its advantages over using a (e.g.) wiki?

@Keneda thank you did not know that.
Yes it's not obvious given also that the space between yumi and the "UBports Forum" is different from the space between the others elements and make look like the mascot and the forum name are the same element/image (and so you click more easily on the element more wide not on the mascot).

@Kaizen no i'm talking only to have the same top menu bar in all ubports subdomain included the forum and the documentation:
Having the same topbar in all the project pages don't seems to me an absurd assumption nor something necessarily to be motivated by an "insistently navigation", but yes, I tend to use the forum with massive checking or Ctrl-C and Ctrl-V from documentation, news (q&a transcription) and sometimes from the git repository...
An easy (or better a standardized) way to navigate between the various page would make using the forum more comfortable for me and probably also for new users that tend to frequently check and explore other website pages while reading in the forum

@Kaizen said in UBports Website rebuilding:

The site has MANY entrance points to the forum on many subjects and conversations.

I'm not talking about the entrance points to the forum but about the entrance point from the forum to the website.

I don't think have to search a conversation in the forum to discover the main website or a particular webpage in the project website is a good approach...and I still think this make look like the forum something isolated from the rest of the project...a sort of a dead end where is easy to enter but difficult to exit while it should let the user easily navigate in any "direction" inside the project and easily reach the desired webpage in the project webpage.

the same should also apply to the documentation page, another dead end section

@Capsia why that "build with JAVA" ? is ubports build with JAVA or is it JAVA compatible?

sorry for re-opening this discussion but I really wanted to suggest that this website rebuild also includes some changes to our forum.
Currently the forum seems a thing apart from the rest of the site, first of all while from any point of the website it is possible to go to any other point of the website included the forum once in the forum it is no longer possible to reach the website ... it does seem almost a thing in itself while in reality the forum is an integral part of the community and the project.
I don't think of big changes, but in my opinion the website top menu should also be present in the forum and the ubports icon on the left should also link on the forum to the project main page.

"Spreading Ubuntu Touch to the world"
like this:

sorry guys, I couldn't resist

imho now that ubports has its own shop in the t-shirt the ubports logo should be more prominent that the text...they should be more like moving ads than funny and cryptic text

Q1: now that the ubports has its own shop I'm wondering how was this reconciled with the charitable status (given also what @Flohack said some time ago ubports foundation is "not allowed to really make money with that" )

the possibility of buying devices with UT pre-installed directly from the UBports website was excluded in the past given the foundation status....so
Q2: are there limitations in what can be sold?

Q3: given that UBPF is a charitable Foundation under German law is there any obligation about publishing Financials and Budget annual reports? if it is not an obligation are you still going to publish them (as done by ie The Document Foundation)?

Mozilla Location Service

• Already used in UT?: Not yet
• What is required: The most popular way to contribute to the project is downloading Firefox for Android or or through Mozilla Stumbler for Android
• Registration: not needed.
• Description: The Mozilla Location Service (MLS) is an open service, which lets devices determine their location based on network infrastructure like Bluetooth beacons, cell towers and WiFi access points. This network based location service complements satellite based navigation systems like A-GPS. This open service relies on a community of contributors, ranging from individuals collecting data, developers using and innovating on top of the service to organizations sharing information about their infrastructure.
• How to contribute: You can contribute by launching the client in android with location and with bluethooth/wifi/mobile data services on (Warning! this could lead to privacy issues, high battery consumption...the use of data is very low and should not entail high costs, but in the case the upload can be carried out once covered by the wifi network)
• Get Help: In client instructions