Demonstration

1. A priori, anyone who makes the choice to waste tens or hundreds of euros/dollars in a smartphone has the means to intelligently use 1 €/$ by year to promote the development of the mobile OS component of this smartphone.

2. With Liberapay, the recurrent donations platform built with free software and translated into 22 languages, it's super easy and cheap to make anonymously a donation of 1€/$ by year.

3. Conclusion: Any Ubuntu Touch user can easily give 1€/$ by year (or more for some) to UBports via Liberapay.

Strangely, at the moment, only 40 Ubuntu Touch users (I presume) seem aware of this.
For the reputation and aura of the UBports project, it would be awesome that it be the one by far with the largest number of supporters on Liberapay.

So and because free as in "free speech" doesn't mean free as in "free beer", it's time to wake up, huge crowd of Ubuntu Touch users, overcome the huge laziness, and tries to saturate Liberapay server with your constant stream of very small (or large) donations !

Updates :

1. May 24 2018: 42 patrons, + 2
2. May 29 2018: 44 patrons, + 2
3. June 20 2018: 50 patrons, +6
4. July 9 2018: 56 patrons, +6
   ...
5. May 18 2021: 108 patrons, + 52

2020 is an important milestone for UBports and UT with new phones (pinephone, librem5 and may be vollaphone), halium 7.1 and may be Halium 9.1 to be used for new hardwares porting, new QT stack within sight :-), collaboration with others communities increasing,...

So it's interesting to follow how this affects certain data that are publicly available and gives an idea of the growth of the audience for UBports community and Ubuntu Touch.

20211116 (YYMMDD)

Twitter @UBports: 10,5K (~+0,5K) followers,
Mastodon https://mastodon.social/@ubports: 1,81K (+0,13k) followers
Telegram group UBports [ENGLISH] : 3717 (+27) members,
UBports forum: 6912 (+389) accounts, (L-00*, excluded),
Openstore Apps: 1055 (+21) (547(+29) + 167(-6)+ 341 (-2)),
translate.ubports.com "Used languages": 151 (+0),
translate.ubports.com "Registered users": 551 (+8)
Donators via Liberapay: 116 (+3)
Devices supported by UT : All 78 (+14), Phones 68 (+13), Tablets 7 (+1)
Distrowatch Popularity (hits per day): 12 months: 98 (120), 6 months: 98 (119), 3 months: 116 (75), 4 weeks: 107 (85)
+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
Twitter @UBports](https://twitter.com/UBports 10K (~+0,5K) followers,
Twitter @postmarketOS (https://twitter.com/postmarketOS 7562 (+782) followers,
Twitter /e/ foundation (https://twitter.com/e_mydata 7672 (+523) followers,
Twitter @hello_volla (https://twitter.com/hello_volla); 1608 (+170) followers,
Twitter @thepine64 (https://twitter.com/thepine64 33,4K (+2,9k) followers,
Twitter @Puri_sm (https://twitter.com/Puri_sm 22,2K (+0,6k) followers,
Twitter @JollaHQ (https://twitter.com/JollaHQ 38,9k (-0,1K) followers
Twitter @thefxtec (https://twitter.com/thefxtec 2706 (+112) followers

20210813 (YYMMDD)

Twitter @UBports: 10K (>= +509) followers,
Mastodon https://mastodon.social/@ubports: 1,68k (-0,01k) followers
Telegram group UBports [ENGLISH] : 3690 (+94) members,
UBports forum: 6523 (+324) accounts, (L-00*, excluded),
Openstore Apps: 1034 (+16) (518 (+12) + 173 (+5)+ 343 (+1)),
translate.ubports.com "Used languages": 151 (+0),
translate.ubports.com "Registered users": 543 (+17)
Donators via Liberapay: 113 (+6)
Devices supported by UT : All 64 (+6), Phones 55 (+6), Tablets 6 (+0)
Distrowatch Popularity (hits per day): 12 months: 100 (125), 6 months: 94 (129), 3 months: 92 (128), 4 weeks: 49 (212)
+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
Twitter @UBports](https://twitter.com/UBports 10K (>= +509) followers,
Twitter @postmarketOS (https://twitter.com/postmarketOS 6780 (+629) followers,
Twitter /e/ foundation (https://twitter.com/e_mydata 7149 (+638) followers,
Twitter @hello_volla (https://twitter.com/hello_volla); 1438 (+161) followers,
Twitter @thepine64 (https://twitter.com/thepine64 30,5 (+1,9k) followers,
Twitter @Puri_sm (https://twitter.com/Puri_sm 21,6 (+0,4k) followers,
Twitter @JollaHQ (https://twitter.com/JollaHQ 39k (-0,3K) followers
Twitter @thefxtec (https://twitter.com/thefxtec 2594 (+89) followers

20210513 (YYMMDD)

Twitter @UBports: 9491 (+441) followers,
Mastodon @ubports@framapiaf.org: 1,69k (+0,14k) followers
Telegram group UBports [ENGLISH] : 3596 (-3) members,
UBports forum: 6199 (+309) accounts, (L-00*, excluded),
Openstore Apps: 1016 (+2) (506 (+20) + 168 (-19)+ 342 (+1)),
translate.ubports.com "Used languages": 151 (+0),
translate.ubports.com "Registered users": 526 (+20)
Donators via Liberapay: 107 (+3)
Devices supported by UT : All 58 (+0), Phones 49 (+0), Tablets 6 (+0)
+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
Twitter @UBports](https://twitter.com/UBports 9491 (+441) followers,
Twitter @postmarketOS (https://twitter.com/postmarketOS 6151 (+655) followers,
Twitter /e/ foundation (https://twitter.com/e_mydata 6787 (+633) followers,
Twitter @hello_volla (https://twitter.com/hello_volla); 1277 (+119) followers,
Twitter @thepine64 (https://twitter.com/thepine64 28,6k (+2,3k) followers,
Twitter @Puri_sm (https://twitter.com/Puri_sm 21,2 (+0,6k) followers,
Twitter @JollaHQ (https://twitter.com/JollaHQ 39,3k (-0,2K) followers
Twitter @thefxtec (https://twitter.com/thefxtec 2505 (+92) followers

20210213 (YYMMDD)

Twitter @UBports: 9050 (+674) followers,
Mastodon @ubports@framapiaf.org: 1,55k (+0,26k) followers
Telegram group UBports [ENGLISH] : 3599 (+218) members,
UBports forum: 5890 (+196) accounts, (L-00*, excluded),
Openstore Apps: 1014 (+27) (486 (+19) + 187 (+1)+ 341 (+7)),
translate.ubports.com "Used languages": 151 (+8),
translate.ubports.com "Registered users": 506 (+27)
Donators via Liberapay: 104 (+18)
Devices supported by UT : All 58, Phones 49, Tablets 6
+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
Twitter @UBports](https://twitter.com/UBports 9050 (+674) followers,
Twitter @postmarketOS (https://twitter.com/postmarketOS 5496 (+656) followers,
Twitter /e/ foundation (https://twitter.com/e_mydata 6154 (+874) followers,
Twitter @hello_volla (https://twitter.com/hello_volla); 1158 (+201) followers,
Twitter @thepine64 (https://twitter.com/thepine64 26,3k (+2,6k) followers,
Twitter @Puri_sm (https://twitter.com/Puri_sm 20,6 (+1,2k) followers,
Twitter @JollaHQ (https://twitter.com/JollaHQ 39,5k (-0,3K) followers
Twitter @thefxtec (https://twitter.com/thefxtec 2413 (+249) followers

20201113 (YYMMDD)

Twitter @UBports: 8376 (+685) followers,
Mastodon @ubports@framapiaf.org: 1,29k (+0,13k) followers
Telegram group UBports [ENGLISH] : 3381 (+180) members,
UBports forum: 5694 (+ 299) accounts, (L-00*, excluded),
Openstore Apps: 987 (-91) (467 (-66) + 186 (-15)+ 334 (-10)),
translate.ubports.com "Used languages": 143 (+0),
translate.ubports.com "Registered users": 479 (+20)
Donators via Liberapay: 86 (+1)
+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
Twitter @UBports](https://twitter.com/UBports 8376 (+685) followers,
Twitter @postmarketOS (https://twitter.com/postmarketOS 4840 (+833) followers,
Twitter /e/ foundation (https://twitter.com/e_mydata 5280 (+626) followers,
Twitter @hello_volla (https://twitter.com/hello_volla); 957 (+175) followers,
Twitter @thepine64 (https://twitter.com/thepine64 23,7k (+2,8k) followers,
Twitter @Puri_sm (https://twitter.com/Puri_sm 19,4k (+0,4k) followers,
Twitter @JollaHQ (https://twitter.com/JollaHQ 39,8k (-0,3K) followers
Twitter @thefxtec (https://twitter.com/thefxtec 2164 followers

20200813 (YYMMDD)

Twitter @UBports: 7691 (+ 1184) followers,
Mastodon @ubports@framapiaf.org: 1,16k (+306) followers
Telegram group UBports [ENGLISH] : 3201 (+393) members,
UBports forum: 5395 (+ 664) accounts, (L-00*, excluded),
Openstore Apps: 1078 (+42) (533 (+12), 344 (+10), 201(+20)),
translate.ubports.com "Used languages": 143 (+0),
translate.ubports.com "Registered users": 459 (+35)
Donators via Liberapay: 85 (+32)
+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
Twitter @UBports](https://twitter.com/UBports 7691 (+1184) followers,
Twitter @postmarketOS (https://twitter.com/postmarketOS 4007 (+982) followers,
Twitter /e/ foundation (https://twitter.com/e_mydata 4654 (+770) followers,
Twitter @hello_volla (https://twitter.com/hello_volla); 782 (+180) followers,
Twitter @thepine64 (https://twitter.com/thepine64 20,9k (+3,1k) followers,
Twitter @Puri_sm (https://twitter.com/Puri_sm 19k (+0,7k) followers,
Twitter @JollaHQ (https://twitter.com/JollaHQ 40,1k (-0,3K) followers

20200513 (YYMMDD)

Twitter @UBports: 6507 (+ 1086) followers,
Mastodon @ubports@framapiaf.org: 854 followers
Telegram group UBports [ENGLISH] : 2808 (+256) members,
UBports forum: 4731 (+ 369) accounts, (L-00*, excluded),
Openstore Apps: 1036 (+6, 521+334+181), (scopes excluded),
translate.ubports.com "Used languages": 143 (+1),
translate.ubports.com "Registered users": 424 (+35)
Donators via Liberapay: 53 (+12)
+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
Twitter @UBports](https://twitter.com/UBports 6507 followers,
Twitter @postmarketOS (https://twitter.com/postmarketOS 3025 followers,
Twitter /e/ foundation (https://twitter.com/e_mydata 3884 followers,
Twitter @hello_volla (https://twitter.com/hello_volla); 602 followers,
Twitter @thepine64 (https://twitter.com/thepine64 17,8k followers,
Twitter @Puri_sm (https://twitter.com/Puri_sm 18,3k followers,
Twitter @JollaHQ (https://twitter.com/JollaHQ 40,4 k followers

20200211 (YYMMDD)

Twitter @UBports: 5421 followers,
Telegram group UBports [ENGLISH] : 2552 members
UBports forum: 4362 accounts
Openstore Apps: 1030 (506+332+192, I excluded scopes)
translate.ubports.com "Used languages": 142
translate.ubports.com "Registered users": 389
Donators via Liberapay: 41

Congrats and thanks to Marcos Costales : https://open-store.io/app/navigator.costales

"The Hesse Commissioner for Data Protection and Freedom of Information (HBDI) ruled that using the popular cloud platform’s standard configuration exposes personal information about students and teachers “to potential access by US authorities.”

https://thenextweb.com/privacy/2019/07/15/german-schools-ban-microsoft-office-365-amid-privacy-concerns/

It would be good news if privacy were finally taken seriously, particularly in education, health and more generally all public services sectors.

You can test yourself by watching this recent speech by Alfred at the OpenAlt conference:
https://vhsky.cz/w/9SMHT5v6UCAQrtM9cYCKBK

Well done @fredldotme !

Bug 611 "Camera app image freeze" and bug 23 "No video recording possible" are now fixed in the last RC, thanks to a fix from @rubencarneiro (Ruben Carneiro).

Don't wait for OTA-9, try the last RC !

Great talk by Moem at BornHack 2021: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tNVcE4EqmzY

English version (version Française plus bas)

The following procedures have been successfully followed by several users who were experiencing difficulties installing UBports UT on their BQ aquaris M10 tablets. They are also useful for installations on other devices with an adjustment for the boot to fastboot mode (B.9); from a device off (not in standby):

0.1) Press and hold Volume Down and Power buttons simultaneously for:

• Fairphone 2,
• Nexus 5,
• Nexus 7,
• Meizu MX4,
• Meizu Pro 5

0.2) Press and hold Volume Up and Power buttons simultaneously for:

• BQ aquaris 4.5,
• BQ aquaris 5.0,
• BQ aquaris M10,
• OnePlus One,

0.3) Press and hold Volume Up, Volume Down and Power buttons simultaneously for:

• Nexus 4

As usual, use the following procedures at your own risk.

Before starting the following procedures, make sure your tablet battery is fully charged (more than 50%).

A. Installing Ubuntu Touch UBports on a BQ Aquaris M10 Ubuntu Edition Tablet with a Ubuntu (64 bits) PC

1. put your tablet in developer mode via the menu : System settings \ About \ developer mode

2. in a terminal on the PC, run the command : sudo apt update

3. in a terminal on the PC, run the command : sudo apt install android-tools-adb android-tools-fastboot (to install the basic tools for android)

4. in a terminal on the PC, launch the UBports installer (previously downloaded and unarchived, version amd64.deb preferably or amd64.snap) with command : ubports-installer

5. manually select BQ M10 as device in the installer menu

6. click on Install

7. connect the active tablet under Ubuntu Touch, via a USB2 port to the PC

8. in a terminal on the PC, run the command : sudo adb reboot-bootloader to reboot your tablet in bootloader mode ; a menu appears giving the choice between / reboot system / wipe cache partition / reboot to bootloader / power down / factory reset / view recovery logs. Choose "reboot to bootloader" by selecting with volume + and volume - and pressing the On/Off button; the tablet screen turns black and there is Fastboot Mode at the bottom of the screen.

After installing UBports should start and continue as in the video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zuLFTGkuD68

N.B.: if the installer fails, you can try to lanch the installer (point 4.) with sudo: sudo ubports-installer

B. Installing Ubuntu Touch UBports on a BQ Aquaris M10 Ubuntu Edition Tablet with a Windows PC

1. put the tablet in developer mode via the menu : System settings \ About \ developer mode

2. install on the PC, the universal driver adb http://adb.clockworkmod.com or a driver specific to the BQ M10 :
   https://www.androidusbdrivers.com/bq-aquaris-m10-usb-drivers/

3. connect the active tablet under Ubuntu Touch, via a USB2 port to the PC

4. Allow the PC to access the tablet and mark the checkbox to allow it to be accessed at all times.

5. change the USB to MTP mode on the PC (by default, only allows charging)

6. launch the UBports installer for Windows version 1.0.9-beta:
   https://github.com/ubports/ubports-installer/releases/download/0.1.9-beta/ubports-installer.0.1.9-beta.exe
   Warning, newer versions of the installer do not work for Windows.

7. manually select BQ M10 as device in the installer menu

8. click on "Install" in the UBports installer

9. turn off the BQ M10 Ubuntu Touch tablet, then start it in Fastboot mode, by simultaneously pressing and holding Volume Up and Power buttons ; a menu appears giving the choice between / system reboot / wipe cache partition / reboot to bootloader / power down / factory reset / view recovery logs. Choose "reboot to bootloader" by selecting with volume + and volume - and pressing the On/Off button; the tablet screen turns black and there is Fastboot Mode at the bottom of the screen.

After that, the installation of UBports should start and run as in the video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zuLFTGkuD68

N.B.: If the UBports installer fails, you can try running it with administrator rights (return to point B.6.).

C. Installing UBports Ubuntu Touch on a BQ Aquaris M10 Android Tablet

1. on the Android tablet, enable developer mode, in Settings/About device : press "Build number" seven times or more to unlock "Developer options". Once done, go back and you will see Developer Options on the screen next to About. Select it.

2. in the developer mode options, check the "OEM Unlock" box to allow unlocking of the Bootloader

3. in the developer mode options, select USB debugging

4. apply the procedure described in this part of the documentation:
   https://docs.ubports.com/en/latest/userguide/install.html

At the end you will get a tablet under Ubuntu Touch Canonical version.

5. upgrade from the Canonical version to the UBports version of Ubuntu Touch,

   5.1 if your PC is running Ubuntu, follow procedure A. (see above)
   5.2 if your PC is running Windows, follow procedure B. (see above)

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French / Français

Les procédures qui suivent ont été appliquées avec succès par plusieurs utilisateurs qui rencontraient des difficultés pour installer UBports UT sur leurs tablettes BQ aquaris M10.
Elles peuvent également être utiles pour les installations sur les autres appareils moyennant une adaptation concernant le passage en mode Fastboot (point B.9) : à partir d'un appareil éteint (pas en veille),

0.1) appuyez simultanément sur les boutons Volume faible et Marche/Arrêt et maintenez-les enfoncés pour :

• Fairphone 2,
• Nexus 5,
• Nexus 7,
• Meizu MX4,
• Meizu Pro 5

0.2) appuyez simultanément sur les boutons Volume fort et Marche/Arrêt pour :

• BQ aquaris 4.5,
• BQ aquaris 5.0,
• BQ aquaris M10,
• OnePlus One,

0.3) appuyez simultanément sur les boutons Volume haut, Volume bas et Marche/Arrêt et maintenez-les enfoncés pour :

• Nexus 4

Comme d'habitude, utilisez les procédures qui suivent à vos propres risques et périls

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Avant de commencer à suivre les procédures suivantes, assurez vous que votre la batterie de votre tablette est bien chargée (plus de 50%)

A. Installation d'UBports Ubuntu Touch sur une tablette BQ Aquaris M10 Ubuntu Edition avec un PC sous Ubuntu

1. mettre ta tablette en mode developpeur via le menu : Paramètres système \ A propos de \ mode développeur

2. dans un terminal sur le PC, lancer la commande : sudo apt update

3. dans un terminal sur le PC, lancer la commande : sudo apt install android-tools-adb android-tools-fastboot (pour installer les outils de base pour android)

4. dans un terminal sur le PC, lancer l'installateur UBports (préalablement téléchargé et installé, version amd64.deb de préférence ou amd64.snap) via la commande ubports-installer

5. sélectionner manuellement BQ M10 comme device dans le menu proposé par l'installeur

6. cliquer sur Install

7. connecter la tablette active sous Ubuntu Touch, via un port USB2 au PC

8. dans un terminal sur le PC, lancer la commande : sudo adb reboot-bootloader pour rebooter ta tablette en mode bootloader ; un menu apparaît donnant le choix entre / reboot système / wipe cache partition / reboot to bootloader / power down / factory reset / view recovery logs. Choisir "reboot to bootloader" en sélectionnant avec volume + et volume - et en validant avec le bouton On/Off ; l'écran de la tablette devient noir et il y a en bas de l'écran noté Fastboot Mode.

Après l'installation d'UBports devrait commencer et se poursuivre comme dans la vidéo: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zuLFTGkuD68

B. Installation d'UBports Ubuntu Touch sur une tablette BQ Aquaris M10 Ubuntu Edition avec un PC sous windows

1. mettre la tablette en mode développeur via le menu : Paramètres système \ A propos de \ mode développeur

2. installer sur le PC, le driver universel adb http://adb.clockworkmod.com ou bien un driver spécifique à la BQ M10 :
   https://www.androidusbdrivers.com/bq-aquaris-m10-usb-drivers/

3. connecter la tablette active sous Ubuntu Touch, via un port USB2 au PC

4. autoriser le PC à accéder à la tablette et marquer la case à cocher afin de toujours l'autoriser

5. changer sur le PC le mode USB à MTP (par défaut, autorise seulement la charge)

6. lancer l'installeur UBports pour Windows version 1.0.9-beta :
   https://github.com/ubports/ubports-installer/releases/download/0.1.9-beta/ubports-installer.0.1.9-beta.exe
   Attention, les versions plus récentes de l'installeur ne fonctionnent pas pour Windows.

7. sélectionner manuellement BQ M10 comme device dans le menu proposé par l'installeur

8. cliquer sur "Install" dans l'installeur UBports

9. éteindre la tablette BQ M10 Ubuntu Touch, puis la démarrer en mode Fastboot, en appuyant simultanément sur le bouton Volume + (UP) et sur le bouton On/Off; un menu apparaît donnant le choix entre / reboot system / wipe cache partition / reboot to bootloader / power down / factory reset / view recovery logs. Choisir "reboot to bootloader" en sélectionnant avec volume + et volume - et en validant avec le bouton On/Off ; l'écran de la tablette devient noir et il y a en bas de l'écran noté Fastboot Mode.

Après cela, l'installation d'UBports devrait commencer et se dérouler comme dans la vidéo: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zuLFTGkuD68.

NB. Si l'installeur UBports échoue, vous pouvez essayer de le lancer avec les droits d'administrateur. (retourner au point B.6.)

C. Installation d'UBports Ubuntu Touch sur une tablette BQ Aquaris M10 version Android

1. sur la tablette Android, activer le mode développeur et le débogage USB

2. dans les options du mode développeur, cocher la case "Déverrouillage OEM" pour autoriser le déverrouillage du Bootloader

3. appliquer la procédure décrite dans cette partie de la documentation :
   https://docs.ubports.com/fr/latest/userguide/install.html
   Attention, certains liens vers des logiciels sont actuellement cassés dans la version française alors qu'ils sont valides dans la versions anglaise de la documentation; corrections en attente de publication. Utiliser pour l'instant les liens de la version anglaise quand c'est nécessaire.

Une fois terminé, vous obtenez une tablette sous Ubuntu Touch version Canonical.

4. pour passer à la version de la version Canonical à la version UBports d'Ubuntu Touch,

4.1 si votre PC est sous Ubuntu, applique la procédure A. (voir plus haut)
4.2 si votre PC est sous windows, appliquer la procédure B. (voir plus haut)

Email send in french today to EnVenteLibre (Translated with www.DeepL.com/Translator (free version))

Hello,

I am contacting you to consider the possibility of adding the UBports Foundation to the list of associations that are members of your EnVenteLibre platform.

UBports is a charitable foundation under German law, whose mission is to support the collaborative development of the free operating system Ubuntu Touch and to promote its use. The Foundation provides financial, organisational and legal support to the community at large. It also serves as an independent legal entity to which community members can contribute code, funding and other resources, knowing that their contributions will be maintained for the public good.
("Free" translation from https://ubports.com/foundation/ubports-foundation
The English version of the statutes of the UBports Foundation: https://ubports.com/foundation/ubports-foundation/foundation-statutes
The German version, the one that counts from a strictly legal point of view: https://ubports.com/web/content/5674?download=1.)

As far as I am concerned, I am a member of the UBports community and I have been entrusted by Florian Leeber, a member of the foundation's Board of Directors, with the task of seeing if it is possible to take this matter forward.

Indeed, a recurring request from members of the UBports community is to be able to have Ubuntu Touch promotional materials such as stickers, badges, t-shirts, ..., while making a donation to the UBports Foundation to finance actions in favor of the development of Ubuntu Touch. This demand can not be fully met through the tools currently in place (Patreon, Liberapay, ...).

It seemed to me on the one hand that the objectives of the UBports Foundation were fully in line with those promoted by the EnVenteLibre Association and the associations already partners of the platform and on the other hand that the EnVenteLibre platform could perfectly meet the wishes expressed by the members of the UBports community.

This is why I would be very grateful if you could examine the feasibility of this project and give me your point of view on the subject and, possibly, concrete ways to take it forward.

With my most sincere and open regards

Libremax

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En version originale

"Bonjour,

Je prend contact pour envisager avec vous la possibilité d'ajouter la Fondation UBports à la liste des associations adhérentes à votre plateforme EnVenteLibre.

UBports est une fondation caritative de droit allemand, dont la mission est de soutenir le développement collaboratif du système d'exploitation libre Ubuntu Touch et de promouvoir son utilisation. La Fondation apporte un soutien financier, organisationnel et juridique à la communauté au sens large. Elle sert également d'entité juridique indépendante à laquelle les membres de la communauté peuvent contribuer au code, au financement et aux autres ressources, en sachant que leurs contributions seront maintenues pour le bien public.
(Traduction "libre" de https://ubports.com/foundation/ubports-foundation
La version anglaise des statuts de le Fondation UBports : https://ubports.com/foundation/ubports-foundation/foundation-statutes
La version allemande, celle qui compte d'un point de vue strictement légal : https://ubports.com/web/content/5674?download=1).

En ce qui me concerne, je suis un membre de la communauté UBports et il m'a été confié par Florian Leeber, membre du Conseil d'Administration de la fondation, le soin de voir s'il est possible de faire avancer ce dossier.

En effet, une demande récurrente des membres de la communauté UBports est de pouvoir disposer de matériels de promotion d'Ubuntu Touch comme des autocollants, badges, t-shits,..., tout en faisant un don à la Fondation UBports pour financer les actions en faveur du développement d'Ubuntu Touch. Cette demande ne peut actuellement être pleinement satisfaite à travers les outils actuellement mis en place (Patreon, Liberapay,...).

Il m'a semblé d'une part que les objectifs de la Fondation UBports était pleinement en phase avec ceux promus par l'Association EnVenteLibre et les associations déjà partenaires de la plateforme et d'autre part que la plateforme EnVenteLibre pourrait répondre parfaitement aux souhaits exprimés par les membres de la communauté UBports.

C'est pourquoi, je vous serais très reconnaissant d'examiner la faisabilité de ce projet et de me faire part en retour de votre point de vue sur le sujet et, éventuellement, des modalités concrètes pour le faire avancer.

Avec mes très sincères et libres salutations

Libremax

1. OnePlus One, CPU Quad-core 2.5 GHz Krait 400, possibly affected
2. Fairphone 2, Quad-Core 2.26 GHz Qualcomm Krait 400, idem, possibly affected
3. LG Nexus 5, Quad-core 2.3 GHz Krait 400, idem, possibly affected
4. Optimus L90, Quad-core 1.2 GHz Cortex-A7, Not Affected
5. BQ M10 HD, MediaTek MT8163B Quad-core 1.3 Ghz, ARM Cortex-A53, Not Affected
6. BQ M10 FHD, MediaTek MT8163A 1.5 GHz, ARM Cortex-A53, Not Affected
7. BQ Aquaris 4.5, Quad-core Cortex A7 MediaTek on 1.3 GHz, ARM Cortex A7, Not Affected
8. BQ Aquaris 5, Quad-core Cortex A7 MediaTek at 1.3 GHz, ARM Cortex A7, Not Affected,
9. Meizu MX4, MediaTek MT6595 CPU Octa-core (4x2.2 GHz Cortex-A17 & 4x1.7 GHz Cortex-A7), Affected (Cortex A17)
10. Meizu PRO 5, Quad-core 1.5 GHz Cortex-A53 & Quad-core 2.1.0 GHz Cortex-A57,( Affected , Cortex A57)
11. Google Nexus 4, Qualcomm Snapdragon S4 Pro APQ8064, Quad-core 1.5 GHz Krait, possibly affected
12. Asus Google Nexus 7 (2013) LTE, Qualcomm Snapdragon S4 Pro, Quad-core, 1500 MHz, Krait, possibly affected
13. Motorola Moto G 2014, Qualcomm MSM8226 Snapdragon 400, Quad-core 1.2 GHz Cortex-A7, Not Affected

It's beginning now.

@wally Device website has been updated. Example with FP5: https://devices.ubuntu-touch.io/device/fp5/
The status for each device will still need to be set; hopefully in the coming weeks depending on energy of contributors to write MRs.

@jezek FOSS on Mobile events are scheduled only Saturday 31...
Ok, I see now thanks, I replaced February by January

It's Saturday 31 January: https://fosdem.org/2026/schedule/track/foss-on-mobile/

@arubislander imho, what is unhelpful is obscurity not clarity.
Heard again today at restaurant: "Windows is produced by a very large company... Linux is produced by independents; they do what they can."

With the current communication about Ubuntu Touch (which doesn't make explicit the extent of the resources involved in building it), the newcomer may believe that it's something cooked up by a dozen or so guys and therefore has no chance of getting anywhere near the competitors.

It would also be good for UT users to know that they are using a complex and valuable system.
Properly informed, donors could be more numerous or more generous.

A more realistic presentation of Ubuntu Touch and its scope could also help to attract more developers who would be proud to be involved in building a cathedral rather than a shack.

We often read that Ubuntu Touch is developed by a small handful [5,10] of developers mostly in their spare time.
This is problematic because it can give the impression of "amateurism" far from "professional" quality standards.
In reality, Ubuntu Touch assembles a very large number of components, including the Linux kernel, GNU components, Qt, Mir, Lomiri, Ofono, and so on.
All of which are or have been developed mainly by hundreds of individuals in their paid working time for hundreds of different companies.
This does not prevent many people from contributing in their free, unpaid time, and the open source code system, which is visible to everyone, makes it possible to achieve high levels of quality.
Coming back to Ubuntu Touch, if, as I assume, less than 1% of the source code that makes it up has been developed by individuals in the UBports community in their spare time, it would be advisable to make it clearer in the communication about Ubuntu Touch where the more than 99% that makes it up comes from and makes it a complex operating system of great quality and value (several billion or tens of billions of $/€ for all the components).

For example, Top 50 contributors (out of more than 500) for linux kernel
(https://insights.linuxfoundation.org/project/korg/contributors) :

Organization
Total contributions
1
Intel Corporation
24,901
2
Red Hat, Inc.
17,172
3
Google LLC
13,908
4
Meta Platforms, Inc.
13,169
5
SUSE
11,222
6
Arm Limited
11,067
7
Linaro
10,202
8
Advanced Micro Devices, Inc.
8,634
9
Linux Foundation
8,594
10
Oracle America Inc
4,189
11
Microsoft Corporation
3,739
12
Huawei
2,481
13
Collabora
2,466
14
Datera
2,405
15
NVIDIA Corporation
2,292
16
IBM
2,174
17
Linutronix GmbH
1,993
18
Cisco Systems, Inc.
1,764
19
Glider
1,751
20
Bootlin
1,671
21
Uxlite Solutions
1,639
22
Qualcomm Inc
1,576
23
Texas Instruments Incorporated
1,300
24
CHERRY Digital Health
1,217
25
LWN
1,142
26
Ideas on Board
1,106
27
Renesas Electronics Corporation
1,043
28
Individual - No Account
980
29
NXP Semiconductors N.V.
895
30
Kernel Community
889
31
Pengutronix
848
32
Microchip Technology Incorporated
816
33
Chromium
804
34
Linutronix
766
35
BayLibre
737
36
Mellanox Technologies, Ltd.
700
37
Western Digital Corporation
639
38
NVIDIA AI IOT
622
39
Tencent Cloud
581
40
NEC Corporation
574
41
Fedora Project
561
42
Linux Kernel
545
43
Samsung Electronics Co., LTD
480
44
Rivian Automotive LLC
446
45
Mainline Linux Kernel Development
444
46
Loongson Technology Corporation Limited
444
47
Canonical Ltd
441
48
Marvell Technology, Inc.
431
49
Hovold Consulting.com
423
50
Broadcom Inc.
401

Interesting answers here are from Plamen, from Braxtech:

Q: Will there be an easily buildable close-to-mainline Linux kernel?
Will changes be upstreamed to the mainline linux kernel?

A: Yes, to both. We’re getting that promise from MediaTek and the integrator they hired for the linux part.

Q: Will fingerprint support work on linux? How will the camera look? Should we expect the camera to be green and blurry at the start?

A: The mandate is to get everything working, as it will on Android. We will communicate a linux roadmap in due course. One of the main reasons for selecting the g720 by MediaTek (and not a way cheaper alternative such as Rockchip 3588) was the strategic importance for MediaTek to run linux on it - this is their latest high end IoT chip. Most of their customers for the chip will run Linux.
Obviously, the camera won’t beat iPad, but it will not be crap.

@kugiigi said in New Braxtech Tablet (or Laptop) with UT on mainline linux kernel:

To be honest, I think we shouldn't be hoping for this to be coming anytime soon. There are only renders and the SOC is very new. I highly doubt it'll actually be shipping this year. And let's not even talk about a UT port yet

I didn't mention the projected availability date, but it does exist: "Estimated delivery date is August '26." (for Android version probably)

For the brax3, 8 months passed between the start of the funding campaign and the first deliveries under iodéOS. The first version of UT was released 4 months later, and the first “stable” version, which can be installed via ubports-installer, is not yet available yet after 14 months months since the start.

So I'm going to go out on a limb and hazard a guess: the first "stable" version of the open slate tablet running UT could be available between August 2026 and December 2027.

@developer After 35 years of existence, GNU/Linux desktop/laptop are mostly unknown from more than 90% of consumers in the world because of the way the capitalist system organises (manipulates, distorts) competition.
The same causes producing the same effects, we can expect mobile operating systems other than the duopoly to take several decades to exceed 1% market share.
Be that as it may, the important thing is that UT continues to be viable in the long run, for its ~10k current users and is able to attract others who share the vision and objectives of freedom, sharing and solidarity of the UBports community and more widely of those who appreciate free software philosophy.

In 2026, with Qt6, Mir2, xdg-desktop-portal and Lomiri or others improvements, UT will be up to date and in the best possible condition to attract developers and users/contributors.

Named "Open Slate":

1. https://community.braxtech.net/t/open-slate-megathread/4041

2. https://rumble.com/v74par6-new-project-the-brax-open-slate-androidlinux-tablet.html

3. MKT Genio 720 specifications: https://www.mediatek.com/products/iot/genio-iot/genio-720

Note: about "mainline linux kernel" (or near mainline kernel and anyway recent kernel) for Ubuntu Touch, it's a guess on my part.