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

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.

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.

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

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!

so if we are talking about a symbol that could substitute the Canonical's circle of friends imho we should also consider how it look in other UBports logos/symbols:
for examble:

also this is the only one among my suggestions that fit in the project name

hi all!
inspired by the question on New badge for Yumi? I have a new question:

• how official choices will be made under the UBports Foundation? (aka what will be the decision chain?)

  • There will be polls?
  • Which choices will be extended to the whole forum community and when or will be they all limited to Board of trustees/Board Members/Sponsors and Associate Members /Advisory Board/Board of Directors?
  • What will the timing be that you intends to impose between the new problem / question, the vote and the end of the voting period?
  • To whom the "official" questions should be directed or where should be asked?

do you know if, how and when a decision will be made on the badge?
I would like to try make a sticker pack that uses it for OTA10

my first test with yumi:

EDIT
the my new logo proposal has the heads a little too big probably it is also an optic effect caused by the different design (the bodies are inside the circle, non on the perimeter, so the heads are more dominant) also maybe is better to enlarge the space between the various element to improve their resolution (so should keep in mind the screen resolution and our eyes angular resolution). the right yumi is with the modified badge symbol

if we are talking about libreoffice impress template I think we should distinguish if it will be an only projected on screen or also printable presentation.
Also himo I think some graphic elements on it should resemble some graphic elements on the project website like the orange sand banner
and/or this one (probably in the future without the circle of friend symbol)

@Flohack
done. Didn't expect was so easy to contact their IPRights Policy office.

Hi guys. I've done a "local" UT/Ubports group on Minds for the Italian community (it was an Italian community approved choice).
This group substitute the Italian Google+ group (so I didn't choice diaspora after tried it because we needed something more similar to G+) .
Sadly it is not possible to see, in guest mode, directly the posts, but it's possible to see them with single direct link that I regularly post on the Italian UT/UBports Telegram Group (e.g. https://www.minds.com/newsfeed/960417396226318336).
Actually it contains only 20 posts (first post on 13 oct 2018) with an average of 20 visualizations each and 8 members so we are far from the 240 members and hundreds post of G+
the positive side is that I can use tokens, earned thank to the social activity on my personal Minds page, to advertise ubports (each token can be spent for 1000 visualizations).

@Flohack I 1000% agree with you. UT should have only opensource app and/or be based only on open source services by default....
neither Android is based on proprietary services/app by default (excluding google services obviously).
About the proprietary services/app the thing that we really need is a way to find easily them (for example why many user don't know about LoquiIM? it is probably hard to find)

Imho by default we need only the very basic things also for convenience reasons: the OS with the DE-GUI, with the hardware exposition to the user space and the ability to integrate the apps with the system(ie I install an app "clock-x" and "mail-y" and I want them be able to put an applet on the toppanel), the phone calls, the sms app, and a way to install anything else.

@thatoo I think a syncronization app (like this one on android) is needed in UT in order to communicate with an AsteroidOS.
so probably the problem is not only that they don't have software for ubuntu touch but that we don't have software for them

@flohack hi,

let me know if you need help with the manual merging. I'm not really proficient with github but I really like to be more helpful to the project

Hi guys!
Here some stats about the yunit project translations given to UBports:

• 68 translators 3 coordinators
• 44 subprojects:
• • account-plugins,
• • address-book-service,
• • click,
• • content-hub,
• • gnome-control-center-signon,
• • gsettings-ubuntu-touch-schemas,
• • hud,
• • indicator-bluetooth,
• • indicator-datetime,
• • indicator-display,
• • indicator-keyboard,
• • indicator-location,
• • indicator-messages,
• • indicator-network,
• • indicator-power,
• • indicator-printers,
• • indicator-session,
• • indicator-sound,
• • indicator-sync,
• • indicator-transfer,
• • indicator-transfer-buteo,
• • libertine, libertine-scope,
• • libusermetrics,
• • location-service,
• • oxide-qt,
• • telephony-service,
• • trust-store,
• • ubuntu-download-manager,
• • ubuntu-geoip,
• • ubuntu-keyboard,
• • ubuntu-settings-components,
• • ubuntu-system-settings,
• • ubuntu-system-settings-online-accounts,
• • ubuntu-terminal-app,
• • ubuntu-ui-extras,
• • ubuntu-ui-toolkit,
• • unity-control-center,
• • unity-scope-mediascanner,
• • unity-scope-shell,
• • url-dispatcher,
• • webbrowser-app,
• • yunit
• 3272 strings in total per language
• 149 language started:
• • Catalan (ca), French (fr) and Italian (it) with complete translation
• • Portuguese (pt) needs only 7 strings translation to complete the job
• • Dutch (nl) needs 354 strings translation
• • Portuguese (Portugal)(pt_PT) needs 355 strings translation
• • German (de) needs 760 strings translation
• • Arabic (ar) needs 654 strings translation
• • Galician (gl) needs 1079 strings translation
• • Ukrainian (uk) needs 1109 strings translation
• • English (United Kingdom) (en_GB) needs 1196 strings translation
• • Finnish (fi) needs 1214 strings translation
• • Gaelic, Scottish (gd) needs 1239 strings translation
• • Turkish (tr) needs 1279 strings translation
• • Lorean (ko) needs 1307 strings translation
• • Hungarian (hu) needs 1334 strings translation
• • Asturian (ast) needs 1338 strings translation
• • Indonesian (id) needs 1350 strings translation
• • Serbian (sr) needs 1353 strings translation
• • Portuguese (Brazil) (pt_BR) needs 1356 strings translation
• • Norwegian Bokmål (nb) needs 1360 strings translation
• • Chinese (Taiwan) (zh_TW) needs 1365 strings translation
• • Persian (fa) needs 1382 strings translation
• • Slovenian (sl) needs 1389 strings translation
• • Bosnian (bs) needs 1427 strings translation
• • Swedish (sv) needs 1455 strings translation
• • English (Australia) (en_AU) needs 1437 strings translation
• • Latvian (lv) needs 1512 strings translation
• • Uighur (ug) needs 1516 strings translation
• • Japanese (ja) needs 1577 strings translation
• • Basque (eu) needs 1552 strings translation
• • Russian (ru) needs 1639 strings translation
• • Catalan (Valencian) (ca@valencia)needs 1726 strings translation
• • Polish (pl) needs 1772 strings translation
• • Malay (ms) needs 1971 strings translation
• • Interlingua (ia) needs 2126 strings translation
    and many more languages
    probably some subproject is not needed so some more language is ready for use. for example the 7 remaining string in Portuguese (pt) are all in the HUD subproject so actually it's not used

could be based on the push notification service?...the push notification service to work shoud already know how many (unique) devices use it.

I think can be useful to know what app develops think about their ubuntu touch app port/programming experiences...and I think collect these experiences could be useful to help other app and OS developers to make the right choice:
Return of Dr. Destructo based on Allegro Game Library

Hi guys! about this topic I didn't read any news about the collaboration between ubport and yunit team and I'm curious to know if it is already reality or a work in progress.
For what I understand yunit has successfully ported unity code on debian stable and is backporting to 16.04. will this migration to 16.04 be useful for ubport too?
is it still possible to merge all the fixes and update both projects had done on their branch?

Also I would like to know if there is some sort of collaboration between ubport (and yunit) with the canonical mir team

about the mir support by canonical this is the actual situation
Also mate team seems interested in a mir-based wayland compositor/client. is the collaboration between all those project on this common objective possible and already started?
I hope in some news in the next Community Update

bye guys and thank you!

[small semi OT] I'm not so reassured after the @Flohack explanation in the Q&A 52 about that at the level of Telegram stickers for use in our groups, we are hardly likely to be sued. the stickers are not confined in a single telegram group (so there is not an "our groups" when we talk about telegram stickers) and I will not be able to tell or control what will happen after publishing them. also it is not only a problem about be sued... I (not ubport foundation) have to sign a "Trademark Licence Agreement for Ubuntu" knowing that I will infringe many points of that agreement if I put the circle of friend within the yumi stickers .
so using their trademarked symbols against the agreement would put me (and not the ubports foundation) in an indefensible and irremediable position from now till the end of the trademark (or the end of telegram) and during all that time I've to hope no one of the future Canonical ADs or owners will intend to sue me.
apart from the improbable (but still existing) sue problem, being a contributor in a free and open project (OpenStreetMap) of which use by third parties is frequently affected by attribution and license violations I'm personally against violate a licence agreement of an free and opensource project like ubuntu.[/small semi OT] so I will not publish/use anymore a yumi or Ubports logo with the circle of friend in it. it remains to understand if, how and when a decision will be made on the Yumi badge.