De : Conference

The first FairTech Summit Europe took place in Luxembourg last week. It was a one day event, organized by Mobifree and Fair✦Tec, bringing together people from different projects that work towards removing dependencies on big tech and unethical technologies from our digital lives. The digital poster wall gives an impression about the breadth of topics covered. There was a wide spectrum of interesting talks, not only about technical implementations but also on user acceptance, collaboration and how we can hopefully scale out to reach more people.

Members of Phosh.mobi e.V. attended the first postmarketOS and Alpine Linux conference in Aachen. It was the first conference in this format but nevertheless very well prepared with an interesting schedule. There was even breakfast at the conference which is a nice way to meet people early over a coffee and a vegan sandwich. Four members from our association attended, and we had one talk about Phosh and BengalOS on the main track.

Members of Phosh.mobi e.V. attended the MiniDebconf in Winterthur in August. The Debian project builds a universal operating system for desktops, laptops, servers and phones. As with almost everything in the Debian project, these conferences are completely self-organized by project members and, with more than 100 attendees, are not quite as “mini” as they might sound. Four days of DebCamp (with hacking and Debian-related topics and socializing) were followed by two days of conference talks.

Die FrOSCon ist eine jährlich stattfindende, zweitägige Konferenz zu den Themen Freie Software und Open Source an der Hochschule Bonn-Rhein-Sieg in Sankt Augustin. Sie bietet mehrere Vortragsreihen sowie einen Ausstellungsbereich, in dem verschiedene Projekte sich und ihre Arbeit vorstellen können. Anders als in den vergangenen Jahren hatten wir diesmal keinen Dev Room mit Vorträgen, sondern einen Stand, an dem wir Phosh und die Aktivitäten unseres Vereins vorstellen konnten. Wir hatten dieselbe Auswahl an Geräten dabei wie auf der CLT26, allerdings hatte sich deren Funktionsumfang seitdem deutlich verbessert: Auf mehr Geräten funktionierten inzwischen die Kameras und Telefonate waren zuverlässig möglich.

As has been traditions for some time, this year too saw another wonderful MiniDebConf in Hamburg where some of our members attended. The week-long event consisted of plenty of hacking, discussions, workshop and presentations. But let’s start from the beginning. As there is only ever one (big) DebConf per year and (local) Debian people still have the desire to meet and hack, they self-organize smaller events for a couple of days or - in this case - a full week to exchange ideas, fix bugs, give presentations or just generally work on Debian.

Wie ihr vielleicht schon gelesen habt, hatte der Phosh.mobi e.V. einen Stand auf dem CLT 2026. Das große Interesse, sich vom aktuell vorherrschenden Smartphone-Duopol zu befreien, hat uns sehr gefreut. Ein System, das komplett auf Freier Software basiert, mit Phosh als touch- und mobilfreundliche Benutzeroberfläche, unter der Kontrolle der Nutzer:innen und unabhängig von den großen Tech-Konzernen sorgte für Begeisterung bei den Besucher:innen unseres Standes. Angesichts des diesjährigen Mottos „Souveräne Digitalität“ hatten wir mit einem gewissen Interesse gerechnet.

As you may know from our announcement, Phosh.mobi members were present at FOSDEM 2026. We had a great time in Brussels and with things in the rear-view mirror, let’s share some of our experiences from the event. Devroom As is tradition by now, we helped organize and run the FOSS on Mobile devroom, which took place on Saturday. And we’re happy to say that it was a great success! So much so, that the devroom was always packed with a queue of people outside itching to get in.

As you may know from our previous post, we were present at GNU/LinuxDay Vorarlberg. While Phosh.mobi is already several years old and mature and we’ve talked about it before at conferences this was our first ever official booth representing the project as official nonprofit organization so reason enough to share our experiences: At 09:00 the event opened to the public and with one hour to go before the first talks most visitors started roaming, lots of them stopping by to chat and play with our OnePlus6, Librem5, x86 Tablet and Fairphone 5 demo devices.

Phosh.mobi e.V. will be present at this year GNU/LinuxDay Vorarlberg. We’ll have a booth where one can try out some phones running Phosh. We’ll bring T-shirts for sale and stickers too. There’ll also be two mobile related talks: one by Evangelos about Living 5 years with mobile Linux and one by Daniel Kulesz titled Mainline Linux on a smartphone - even today a good choice for end users?.

Phosh.mobi e.V. was present at this year FrOScon. We gave a short introduction into the why and how the e.V. came to be (slides) followed by the annual Phosh community get together. It was nice to meet so many people from our community in person again and to discuss Phosh and MobileLinux. Hopefully ’til next year! Photo credits: Leandro Friedrich