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

@unisuperbox Thanks you for all your hard work on Ubports.
I'm very sad thinking I will not heard your brilliant Q&As anymore but it is a choice that I understand perfectly.
I really wish you all the success and happiness you deserve and I hope, in the future, to see you here again, maybe in a less stressful role, but still here.

Good luck in anything you will do.

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.

From 2005 the Free Software Foundation (FSF) launched the High Priority Projects (HPP) initiative to draws attention (and attract funders and developers) to a relatively small number of projects of great strategic importance to the goal of freedom for all computer users.
This year one of the HHP point is dedicated to the Free phone operating system.
Actually the only project sponsored is Replicant a fully free Android distribution.
But why our loved UT is not listed?
Onestly our operative system, especially on free hardware like pinephones, could adhere very well to the characteristics considered by FSF:

• Systematic. Something that has the potential to improve lots of free software programs, development, communities, advocacy -- making use of free software and participation in development and advocacy more compelling for many more people.
• Universal. Something that nearly every computer user needs, but for which there is no competitive free software in the category.
• Cascading. Something that will enable a large number of users to replace not only comparable proprietary software, but also break a logjam that makes it hard for users to adopt unrelated free software.
• Frontier. Enables users to be free at ever lower layers of software and down to hardware. Few users may be able to do this soon, but such frontier development ensures that the bar for eventual freedom for all users is not set too low.

In my opinion we should consider proposing UT /Ubports as a project.

It is useless to remember that giving the project greater visibility at the FSF means directly accessing a multitude of developers engaged in the free world from years and with knowledge and experience ranging from app development to kernel development

new two stickers are coming:

this is for the next UT code cleaning

and this is for the next features requests

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!

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

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

Pine64 choosed to ship pinephone with Plasma Mobile on Manjaro ARM base from this point on.
Q1 are you surprised?
Q2 What do you think is the motivation behind this decision?
Q3 Is manjaro/plasma seen as a more robust/mature project or as a more enjoyable experience or was only a problem of (missing) comunication about advancement in the development of ut for pinephone ?
I know we are very friend and bound togheder with the manjaro team ( I too LOVE their os) but a friendly competition could also be healthy...so maybe... Q4 are you thinking a B plan/strategy to compensate/answer to this situation?

with the new 20.04 based version we will see the use of the newer Mir version on UT.
what benefits will this change bring? will there be a performance improvement? do you already know what new features could be introduced with the new mir?

with the new base and the new mir will we finally see solved the problems that block the usability of UT on Rpi4?

we recently saw good progress in terms of feature coverage thank to ie Alfred an Alberto work. but these progress are on 16.04 based version. how much of these progress can be "ported" on 20.04 base?

@unisuperbox Thanks you for all your hard work on Ubports.
I'm very sad thinking I will not heard your brilliant Q&As anymore but it is a choice that I understand perfectly.
I really wish you all the success and happiness you deserve and I hope, in the future, to see you here again, maybe in a less stressful role, but still here.

Good luck in anything you will do.

Do you have ever made considerations about "What If [put a main developer name here] Gets Hit By A Bus?

What will happen if Marius or Daldon o Florian ecc Gets Hit By A Bus (or, more probably, lost interest in the project)?
Would the project go on or will it die?

Now we have a foundation but can the project still be defined as an amateur project carried out by a few or an organization capable of surviving the abandonment of 4-5 main developers?

Ps: I wish the developers every luck and certainly not to be hit by a bus ... I used this case only because it is the subject of study for linus torward

what do you think about Waydroid (aka Anbox-halium). what are the differences with anbox used on UT?
can Waydroid be in future an acceptable solution on UT as well as Anbox?

Waydroid has appeared in many articles in specialist newspapers around the world. Has this sudden increased visibility of this project already led to contributors also not linked to UT?

thanks @Xray2000 for the answer!I had missed that information

@ubportsnews there is increasing interest in the use of Rust programming language, mainly due to its ability to enforcing memory safety statically. is there interest in integrating this language into UT? what do you think would be the components that would benefit most from being written in Rust language?

ALSO: thanks to my collaboration in OpenStreetMap I'm earning some Chrons from the NEO Economy (equivalent to 0.6€ per hour editing in OSM...I can also reach 6h/week)... is there a way to donate them to the ubports foundation?

How is the work on the Ubuntu Touch Flatpak Runtime going on?
What help is needed?
In the description you said some apps already work fine. what are these apps?

Make the UT apps compatible/usable in other distro is a way to make the development of ut app more appealing to the developers (wider userbase).... is this a project that will have priority any time soon?

PS:since unfortunately I missed the 100th Q&A because I was at my grandmother's funeral, I wish you all happy 100th Q&A now!!

you did not answered my question in the last Q&A. so I re-post them hoping this would not be considered spam

Q1: Canonical recently announced that Flutter will be the default choice for future Ubuntu apps.
Could this choice advantage UT?
what obstacles should be addressed before having a working and integrated flutter framework support in UT?

and now I add these personal questions:
Q2: what was your first programming language you programmed with? currently what is your favorite programming language (even among those not supported by UT)?

recently was announced by Canonical that Flutter will be the default choice for future Ubuntu apps.
Could this choice be an advantage for UT?
if possible, what obstacles should be addressed before having a working and integrated flutter framework support in UT?

Pine64 choosed to ship pinephone with Plasma Mobile on Manjaro ARM base from this point on.
Q1 are you surprised?
Q2 What do you think is the motivation behind this decision?
Q3 Is manjaro/plasma seen as a more robust/mature project or as a more enjoyable experience or was only a problem of (missing) comunication about advancement in the development of ut for pinephone ?
I know we are very friend and bound togheder with the manjaro team ( I too LOVE their os) but a friendly competition could also be healthy...so maybe... Q4 are you thinking a B plan/strategy to compensate/answer to this situation?

@kaizen Amazig work! goood job! I really like it

Can I suggest something from a non-technical POV?
At the top of the sketch you have inserted a truly explanatory schematization (we need to add the app layer). I suggest to keep the same order for the component listed in the first "about the project" section.
Also in the second "about the project" you have used new therms and this could be confusing for someone like me:

• where is the lomiri layer?
• what is this new midleware? is it the halium + core layer?

A better way to keep all more intuitive as possible (but i don't know if it is possible) is to make all the information hidden unless we touch on the desired section: if you touch the "lomiri" layer on the top scheme it opens in the bottom the "Lomiri project" of the first "about the project"
If you touch the "halium" layer on the top scheme it opens in the bottom the "halium project" of the first "about the project" with also the explanation you putted in the second "about the project" section
and so on...
also all element in the second "about the project" should be clickable (not the software ) with direct link to the doc or their github/lab page.

my2cents.

Aury