Lol I'm singlehandedly representing gender diversity in the Mobile & Desktop Operating System & Apps group at #EuroCommons 🙋🏼♀️😅
Awesome discussion though! Currently we're discussing a fully degoogled mobile ecosystem for Europe, with @eighthave from @fdroidorg , @rikviergever from @murena , @raito from @nixos_org , Pierre-Yves Gibello from @ow2 , Camille Moulin from @numerique_gouv someone from @jolla , someone from @volla , and many others!
@Gina @eighthave @fdroidorg @rikviergever @murena @raito @nixos_org @ow2 @numerique_gouv @jolla @volla @ubports that someone from Jolla seems to be Sami Pienimäki, the CEO and co-founder of Jolla ;). Glad that there is these kind of discussions as I think we need to promote the EU alternatives ASAP to have EU tech independency. Personally I believe we need fully independent solutions like SailfishOS or UB touch for long term, but there is room for everyone
@Antti98 @Gina
I dislike this notion of EU tech. For real open source code and communities (by spirit, not only by license) it doesn't matter where the contributors live. All these operating systems in the end use the Linux kernel, which clearly is global, not EU tech.
The problem in desktop and mobile operating systems is that the dominating players, Windows, macOS, Android and iOS, are not fully open source in spirit. We don't need the same from the EU.
@pixelschubsi @Antti98 @Gina I fully agree, we need to build real free software so that all users get software freedom. One thing that is happening in Europe right now is that the idea "EU Tech" and "digital sovereignty" is coalescing around FOSS as a hard requirement. Some politicians needs to use nationalist language to communicate things. As long as we agree on what we are concretely working on, and that is FOSS, I can tolerate the various ways people are selling FOSS.
