Brussels / 3 & 4 February 2024

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Droidian - Bridging the gap between various platforms with convergence


Introduction to Droidian by Bardia Moshiri

Overview

In this presentation, Bardia, the current lead of the Droidian project, introduces the audience to Droidian, a Debian-based GNU/Linux distribution designed specifically for mobile phones. The community is made up of FOSS and privacy enthusiasts dedicated to building an open and versatile system for smartphones.

Technical Aspects

  • Porting Process: Explains how Droidian is adapted to different mobile devices.
  • System Architecture: Discusses Droidian's unique approach to system design.
  • Components and Backends: Details various components used in Droidian, providing essential functionality.

Demonstrations

  • System architecture: Showcase Droidian's system architecture
  • Phone customizations: Showcase our customized components to ease usability

Future Plans and Challenges

  • New features: Plans to add new features and make the system more user friendly
  • Optimizations and cleanups: Continuing effort to optimize and improve the stack
  • Ongoing Maintenance: Continual efforts to refine and improve Droidian.
  • Challenges: Acknowledge issues that are yet to be solved
  • App Development: Focuses on libadwaita and other essential apps.

Community Involvement

  • Call for Active Maintainers: Encouraging more contributors to join.
  • Userbase Expansion: Strategies to increase the number of Droidian users.
  • New Device Support: Ongoing efforts to make Droidian available on more devices.
  • Enhanced Documentation: Working on better documentation to aid users and developers.

Join the Droidian project to contribute to a future of open and privacy-respecting mobile systems!

Droidian Website and Resources

Droidian Sources

Main Git Organization

Device Organization

Image Organization

Release Engineering Organization

Speakers

Bardia Moshiri

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