@Lakotaubp
Yeah, I think we should add a category for the strangest bug found.

@CiberSheep

Thanks for adding the text. It was on my todo list. I had not got around to it yet.

I would like to add a write up on the community favourite awards to the website. Where is the correct place to put such a page and what is the correct process for adding the page? Should this be done via gitlab? Should I just share it here?

The results are in from the voting!
We have reached the close of the first (ever?) 'Community favourite' awards.

As a quick recap, we had two categories and many nominations. It looks like people were very hungry to acknowledge the work done on UT.
For the community favourite app we had 15 nominees.

OSM scout server
uWolf
Morph QT6
futify
dekko
Sapot
Keeweb
Podcat
RockWork
OpenStore
Waydroid
LogViewer
CinnyUT
TELEports
uNav

For the community favourite developer we had 13 nominees.

@fredldotme (Alfred E. Neumayer)
@lduboeuf (Lionel Duboeuf)
@alan_g (Alan Griffiths)
@vlad-nirky (Vlad Nirki)
@Fuseteam (Tobiyo Kuujikai)
@kugiigi (Kugi Eusebio)
@CiberSheep (Joan CiberSheep)
@thevancedgamer (Muhammad)
@peat_psuwit (Ratchanan)
@danfro (Daniel Frost)
@jonius (Jonathan Zeidler)
(Brian Douglass)
@mariogrip (Marius Gripsgård)

For the community favourite app:
In second place, with 22% of the votes ... The Openstore
The first place and the winner ... is actually a tie with second place ... with 22% of the votes
TELEports.

For the community favourite developer:
In second place, with 22% of the votes ... @peat_psuwit (Ratchanan)
The first place and the winner,
... with 25% of the votes.
@fredldotme (Alfred E. Neumayer)

Congratulations to all the winners and thank you to all the community for keeping UT up and running.
I will be in touch soon with details on how to get your prize.

I have sent a private message to @applee with the outcome of the voting for the Community Favourite Awards.
Please read it at the QA tonight!

@Vlad-Nirky
Thanks, I did not see the double entry.

Hello All
It is now time to vote for the Community Favourite Awards.

UPDATE:
You can have a first and second choice for each category. If you have not indicated so, please send me your second choice. You can vote for yourself too if you were nominated.

Voting closes on the evening of the 10 Dec.

This year we will have only two categories:

• Community favourite app
• Community favourite developer

The prize for each category:

• a large pizza (details TBD).
• a webpage mentioning your award and why your won (details TBD).

Each forum member can vote for a first choice and second choice in each category. More details about the nominees can be found here: https://forums.ubports.com/topic/11623/call-for-nominations-for-the-ubports-community-awards?_=1764437371137

Community favourite app nominees

OSM scout server
uWolf
Morph QT6
futify
dekko
Sapot
Keeweb
Podcat
RockWork
OpenStore
Waydroid
LogViewer
CinnyUT
TELEports
uNav

Community favourite developer nominees

@fredldotme (Alfred E. Neumayer)
@lduboeuf (Lionel Duboeuf)
@alan_g (Alan Griffiths)
@vlad-nirky (Vlad Nirki)
@Fuseteam (Tobiyo Kuujikai)
@kugiigi (Kugi Eusebio)
@CiberSheep (Joan CiberSheep)
@thevancedgamer (Muhammad)
@peat_psuwit (Ratchanan)
@danfro (Daniel Frost)
@jonius (Jonathan Zeidler)
(Brian Douglass)
@mariogrip (Marius Gripsgård)

How to vote

• Decide who you want to vote for.
• Send a private message to me with the vote for each category.
• Clearly mark which is your first choice and which is your second choice.
• You cannot change your vote later

Prizes

Any one who wants to contribute to the prizes or make them more interesting is very very welcome to let us know what they have in mind.

@Lakotaubp
Nevermind, I will just ask people to send their votes in a private message to me and Ill add it up manually.

Alternatively, Could I set up the voting somewhere else and ask someone with admin rights on the platform to add the email for everyone on the forum to the voting platform?
This way everyone can get an email to vote?

I am looking at how to organise the voting for the Community Favourite Awards.
The easiest is to have people vote openly on the forum (ie I post the nominees as comments and people can up vote the nominee/comment they vote for).
But this is not anonymous nor does it restrict it to one vote per person.

Does the forum platform have a 'survey' or poll function?

I would like to ask that you do a quick announcement for the 'Community Awards'.
Things have developed quite well with a lot of input from other community members.
This year we will have only two categories:

• Community favourite app
• Community favourite developer

The prize for each category:

• a large pizza (details TBD).
• a webpage mentioning your award and why your won (details TBD).

Nominations are open until the evening of 1 Dec. Each forum member can nominate two nominees for each category (here: https://forums.ubports.com/topic/11623/call-for-nominations-for-the-ubports-community-awards?_=1764437371137 )

The current nominees are as follows:

Community favourite app

• OSM scout server
• uWolf
• Morph QT6
• futify
• dekko
• Sapot
• Keeweb
• Podcat
• RockWork
• Teleports
• OpenStore
• Waydroid
• LogViewer

Community favourite developer

@fredldotme (Alfred E. Neumayer)
@lduboeuf (Lionel Duboeuf)
@alan_g (Alan Griffiths)
@vlad-nirky (Vlad Nirki)
@Fuseteam (Tobiyo Kuujikai)
@kugiigi (Kugi Eusebio)
@CiberSheep (Joan CiberSheep)
@thevancedgamer (Muhammad)
@peat_psuwit (Ratchanan)
@danfro (Daniel Frost)
@jonius (Jonathan Zeidler)

Prizes

Any one who wants to contribute to the prizes or make them more interesting is very very welcome to let us know what they have in mind.

@stanwood
Everyone does deserve recognition for all their efforts!

It is a bit unclear which of the many people you mentioned would be your nominations? To keep things fair and manageable I think it is best to keep it to two nominations per person. So you should select two people for me to include in the list.

@johndoe
Yes, nominations. Voting happens later.

@idonthatevests
Of course it would be great to give awards to everyone but thats not feasible ... so lets give to someone. There is always next year too.

My nominations.

Community favourite app:

• Sapot
  Sapot has become my go-to browser for everything. It does not feel like a compromise and the gesture controls are both creative and intuitive.

• Keeweb
  It works. That is already fantastic. It works very well and has given me no problems at all for the months that I have used it. Password managers are an essential tool for UT and this app made my life a tonne easier.

Community favourite developer

• Kugi Eusebio
  I use several of Kugi's apps. They have a coherent feel to them which is really nice to see and they have made my UT experience functional.

• TBA

@mango
Thunderbird and firefox will probably eat your ram.

@mango
I have had my FP5 for a few months and I am trying to use it instead of my home PC. I mostly do this through snaps and clicks, so I have not used libritine.
I have FP5 8 GB and 250GB.

From my experience:

• I dont think I have ever got close to using more than 4GB ram, though I only ever check in desktop mode. I bearly ever use waydroid because I find it slow to start up so that is not a concern for me. I dont think that the 6GB will feel any different from the 8GB unless you want to open some big spread sheets.
  With regards to opening/leaving open many apps at once .... the fairphone battery will remind you that that is a bad idea.
• I still have 136GB of 250GB on the phone. The system uses 35GB, Cloud syncing uses another 8 or so and then I have photographs and maps etc. If you want to use the phone as a desktop, the storage may be the best reason to bump the specs. MicroSD storage wont be as fast as the built in SSD and I think it is more complicated to use with some applications (but I havent tried myself).
• The issues with the OS and apps slow me down more than my RAM or storage. For example, snapping windows to parts of the screen with a mouse can be frustrating because of the app draw and overview keep getting triggered. This can be a noticable speed bump when working in desktop mode. RAM usage has yet to be an issue for me wrt responsiveness of the UI or doing tasks.
  That said, UT is improving every day and you can update etc. but if your phone RAM cannot.

@johndoe
about the webpage and graphics; That would be greatly appreciated.
I will try to find out how one gets a page added to the UBports website.

@johndoe
Nice write up!!
I will only take the first two nominations, just to be fair (and not create too many options).

But thank you for the enthusiasm!

Nominations are now open for the UBports Community Awards.
Since this is the first run at having these awards, I thought
its best to keep things a bit simple.
Here are the final two categories:

• Community favourite app
• Community favourite developer

Everyone can suggest up to two nominees for each category.
Nominations close on the evening of 1 Dec.
Leave your suggestions below.

For each nomination, indicate the category, nominee and a short paragraph about why you are nominating this person/app.

Prize: A large pizza for each category.