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Community Get Together 2026-05-19

Notes from our community meeting, topics have been slightly reordered for readability.

Upcoming Events

  • FrOSCon
    • submitted Phosh booth
    • likely also dev room, maybe only one day?
    • FrOSCon has some financial trouble this year, support here

Phosh 0.55 Is Out

  • packages in postmarketOS edge
  • packages in Debian unstable/testing, xdg-desktop-portal-phosh in experimental due to the gtk-rs transition. Werdahias is doing an awesome job keeping the gtk-rs stack in shape in Debian.

Digital IDs

Swedish Digital ID

Sweden implements a new ID solution that requires a smartphone with iOS or Android, previously it was for brank id only. How to best communicate the issue: Support for “Linux” and people without phone, should run in browser.

AusweisApp

Germany currently has a Free Software AusweisApp that works with a physical card and NFC reader or smartphone. Packaged in e.g. Debian.

Digital ID EU

Alternative iOS App Stores

Short excursion into banking apps and that all apps in alternative app stores still need notarization by Apple:

https://www.macrumors.com/2024/01/25/alternative-app-store-notarization-process/

Linux App Summit

Discussion around Flatpak changes, varlink.

Battery Runtime

  • OnePlus6 gives usually 24h without suspend, more with suspend (e.g. overnight)
  • mobile data makes a difference

Apps

LLMs

Discussed different policies in Free Software projects, usage at universities and difference to proprietary projects. We’ve not yet seen good LLM generated bug fixes in our projects (Fermi paradox: everyone talks about it but it just doesn’t seem to be there).

One reason for peoples increased LLM usage may be that search engines got worse, alternatives

Next meeting

See here

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