Public Money, Public Code!
Posted on Jun 11, 2019 by
uniqx
Our everyday lives depend on public infrastructure. Roads, bridges, water supplies, schools, hospitals, etc. enable modern civilization. Most European countries have a long and successful history of funding public infrastructure with public money.
Governments are spending vast amounts of money on software, but they hardly contribute any public digital infrastructure....
Trust, Privacy, and Free Software
Posted on May 5, 2019 by
eighthave
We all put a lot of trust into our devices, more and more of our lives are run out of our phones and laptops. The communications we send to each other contain the most sensitive bits that we convey with our devices. The experience we all have when using these...
Decentralizing Localizations
Posted on Apr 19, 2019 by
eighthave
App development is already well decentralized, and when F-Droid introduced metadata localization, we also made it possible to manage translations and graphics outside of F-Droid itself. Two tools, Fastlane and Triple-T, even provide a way to sync those between the app source repo, F-Droid, and Google Play.
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Privacy Preserving Analytics
Posted on Apr 15, 2019 by
eighthave
F-Droid always avoids tracking users as much as we can. We will never require an account, and we have put a lot of effort into making it hard for even the f-droid.org server to track users. We also recognize that usage data has value. It can be used to...
TWIF 50: First Twitch app in F-Droid
Posted on Apr 4, 2019 by
Coffee
This Week In F-Droid 50, Week 14, 2019 
In this edition: Twire is the first Twitch app to arrive in F-Droid. There are 4 new and 66 updated apps.
TWIF 49: The AnySoftKeyboard and Transdroid Torrent Search edition
Posted on Mar 31, 2019 by
Coffee
This Week In F-Droid 49, Week 13, 2019
In this edition: Miscellaneous F-Droid work, AnySoftKeyboard and Transdroid Torrent Search updated. There are 7 new and 76 updated apps.
The Latest Tab now highlights good descriptions
Posted on Mar 26, 2019 by
eighthave
In the F-Droid Android client, the Latest Tab is a place for F-Droid to showcase apps that pay extra attention to communicating to users. With the upcoming 1.6 release, the Latest Tab will now only show apps that meet certain criteria. The goal is to point users to apps where...
TWIF 48: guardianproject.info migration
Posted on Mar 23, 2019 by
garym
This Week In F-Droid 48, Week 12, 2019
In this edition: The guardianproject.info website migration effort is underway, and odds-and-ends. There are 6 new and 82 updated apps.
