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.

I am organising a UBport Community Awards for the developers.

If you have suggestions for award categories, please let me know!

Current ideas for Categories:

• Biggest OS bug squashed
• Favourite new app in the open store
• Community's favourite developer
• Favourite new app concept ( in the app store)

Details about the planning can be found here:
https://forums.ubports.com/post/90354

PRIZES

It will be a bit of a challenge to organise prizes as the community to spread out across the world and not everyone is able to contribute in the same way.

For this reason, I think it would be good to keep it open to suggestions and anyone can put an offer on the table.

Some ideas:

• offer to tip the winner on their librepay account
• if you are an artist, offer to design a logo for their app
• offer to translate their app to your language
• offer to write a profile page for the winners to go on the UT website (Like an interview about the developer)
• offer to write a review of the winners app (like a show case page on the UT website)

This is not really a question.

I thought it might be fun to have an award event at the end of the year for the developers.
It might get more participation if you announce it on the Q&A.

What it could look like:
A set of categories, nominations for each category and then we ask the community to vote on the nominees.
It would be great to give an actual prize but I guess we can start out with the gesture of the award itself and see what the community comes up with for awards.

Here is the suggested time line:

• Categories confirmed by 17 Nov.
• Nominations open from 17 Nov to 1 Dec
• Voting opens 5 Dec to 12 Dec.
• Awards announced at the Subsequent Q&A

For now, it would be great if people could contribute ideas for the categories (and other details) here:
https://forums.ubports.com/topic/11609/suggestion-ubport-community-awards

Ideas are welcome!

Ideas for Categories:

• Biggest OS bug squashed
• Favourite new app in the open store
• Community's favourite developer
• Favourite new app concept ( in the app store)
• Best new port

Update
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

I thought it might be fun to have an award event at the end of the year for the developers.

Maybe with a set of categories, nominations for each category and then we ask the community to vote on the nominees.

It would be great to give an actual prize but I guess we can start out with the gesture of the award itself.

• Categories confirmed by 17 Nov.
• Nominations open from 17 Nov to 1 Dec
• Voting opens 5 Dec to 12 Dec.
• Awards announced at the Subsequent Q&A

Ideas are welcome!

@t12392n

@kugiigi Hey
My lomiri plus only has device configuration and accesibility. There is no option about convergence.

@gpatel-fr I could not downgrade. The FP provided installer did not work so I went from A14 directly.

@sixwheeledbeast
I just tested on my side. I could add new prints with no effort.

@kugiigi
I dont see the option. Where should I look.