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
- Main Website: droidian.org
- Device Page: devices.droidian.org
Droidian Sources
Main Git Organization
- Droidian: github.com/droidian
Device Organization
- Droidian Devices: github.com/droidian-devices
Image Organization
- Droidian Images: github.com/droidian-images
Release Engineering Organization
- Droidian Releng: github.com/droidian-releng