[EdLUG] July Talk | Where's My Open Source Smartphone ?

[Thomas Kluyver]

I'll see you all in Akva in a couple of hours. If anyone has any interesting smartphones or tablets they want to show, please bring them along. That could be devices that are more open than average by design, or things you've opened up yourself.

The opentechcalendar event says 8pm, but I think we'll be gathering and chatting from 7.30, as at previous meetups.

Thomas

On Tue, Jun 25, 2019, at 11:55 AM, Tai Kedzierski wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> TL;DR
> 
> * July's talk will be about the state of open source smartphones, by Thomas Kluyver
> * August , no meetup from me
> * I'm looking for other venues. Again.
> * We're on Meetup.com
> 
> +++
> July Talk
> 
> https://opentechcalendar.co.uk/event/8611-wheres-my-open-smartphone
> 
> For July 2019, Thomas Kluyver will be giving us a rundown of the state of open source smartphones!
> 
> When Apple launched the iPhone in 2007, phones completed a journey from appliances to pocket computers. Over three quarters of adults in the UK own a smartphone. But it’s difficult to run free, open source applications and operating systems on your phone, or to get a phone with open hardware and firmware. How open are the big smartphone platforms? What are the various projects aiming to make our phones more open? And what are Purism doing with the $2 million they raised by crowdfunding for the Librem 5?
> 
> Note ---- NEW VENUE
> 
> Special for this talk, we will be meeting at Akva - they have an accessible venue (wheelchairs via a lift) with a mezzanine area suited for talks, with a screen.
> 
> https://www.openstreetmap.org/search?query=Akva%2C%20Edinburgh#map=19/55.94318/-3.20833
> 
> Apologies for short notice, hopefully this will remain feasible for most people.
> 
> +++
> August
> 
> As per tradition/policy/habit, there is no "official" meetup in August.
> 
> I leave it open to whomever so wishes to organise something :-)
> 
> +++
> Looking for new venues for the meetups
> 
> Since we started doing talks again, our attendance numbers doubled/tripled compared to our no-talks meetups. My conservative estimate that we'd be fine with Royal Dick for a while was way off the mark. We've also had display problems due to a weak projector, and inability to darken the room properly.
> 
> So for July's talk we are meeting at Akva, which I was able to get for free ; however if a commercial customer books the space for money, they would be given immediate preference. I have been told that this is unliikely, but not impossible.
> 
> My aim is to have somewhere for September that can roll for at least a couple of years. It may be that we run with one of the original ideas, which is to bounce until we settle... 2019 will definitely have been the year of "searching for a home!"
> 
> +++
> We're on Meetup.com
> 
> https://www.meetup.com/Edinburgh-Linux-User-Group-EdLUG/
> 
> I bit the bullet and created an account on Meetup.com as an exploratory exercise. I hadn't planned on announcing it until after the summer when I would be happy everything was properly set up, but people have already been finding and joining it (including some names I definitely recognize!), so the cat's pretty much out of the bag...
> 
> The rationale is that whilst long-established techies in Edinburgh know about OpenTechCalendar, this only accounts for a small number of the demographic. I'll always have a preference for OTC as the first place to announce meetings, but I intend the Meetup.com page to be a way to eventually reach newcomers to the local tech scene, and even non-technical users.
> 
> 
> Keep herdin' them penguins!
> 
> Tai
> 
> ===
> Tai Kedzierski
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> 
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