This month, Rob and Masanori (thanks both!) represented Nura at the Fall OpenSource Conference in Tokyo, Japan. They handed over close to 50 leaflets, and showcased a great variety of devices, with attendants being astonished with how well Plasma Mobile and Phosh worked on them. Attendants were also happy to learn about the project rename, which is great news!
Organizational
- After introducing the Nura Project ASBL in September, we continued with the integration of the legal entity into the project's processes and documentation (!110), which means the statutes are now accessible publicly and in English. Thanks Antoine!
- With the previous changes, the Core and Trusted Contributors model is now replaced by the assembly membership. As such, the application and documentation processes have now been updated (!114). If you are interested to be part of the association, please have a look!
- We now have a conflict of interest policy to make sure that decisions are made with the best interest of the project in mind, and avoid potential benefits for individuals in positions of power.
mobile-config-firefox
The project to make firefox adaptive on mobile saw three new releases: 5.5.0, 5.5.1, and 5.5.2. Overall, it adds support for Firefox versions up to 159, and improves support for ESR version 153. It also adds initial flatpak support, so that flatpak beyond Nura can also benefit from our work.
q6voiced project update
q6voiced is a set of downstream patches and downstream daemon to provide call audio support for QualComm devices. A couple of months ago, we introduced a project, to work on an upstreamable solution that would important bring improvements to the audio stack that many in our community want to see. Since then, we have received multiple queries about the status of the project. Unfortunately, due to circumstances out of our control, the initial analysis and architectural redesign has been delayed, and they probably won't come until December this year. We hope we are able to provide an update with some completed work by then.
New UI: Catacomb
We are very happy to announce that Catacomb is now packaged into Alpine and Nura (!7690) and to have more UIs being added to keep old devices useful in real-world scenarios! Thank you Ferass and Christian Duerr.
As part of this effort, there are still some remaining apps in the suite that are not yet packaged but will make their way soon, however it is already in a very usable state. Check out the wiki page!
Misc
- The leaflets to hand out at events have been updated to reflect the new name and status of the project both in English (!95) and Japanese (!96).
- Images for the Radxa Dragon Q6A (one of the potential future main devices) are now published. If anyone is interested in running Nura on this device, you can join the chat.
- systemd update (!9779) and a fix in apk-tools.
Powered by
The following people wrote patches that have been merged since the last monthly blog post. Thank you very much for improving Nura!
Aster, Aelin, Ferass, Oliver, Pablo, Stefan, Antoine, Anton, Clayton, Adam, Achill, Federico, Bart, Henrik, erikas9987, Masanori, Paul, Wren, Rudraksha, fregrem, Alistair, Enrico, Frieder, Barnabás, Biswapriyo, Ali, Yu Watanabe, Sam, Casey, Dang, Pinguin, Alexander M., Hugo P., bluebunny, Jakko, Adrian, Eric, Neil, Lukas, Leo, Peter, OHaiiBuzzle, Mat, Alexandre, MariooB, Pan, Luca, Richard Ac., small
Furthermore we thank everybody who has been contributing to any of the numerous upstream projects we use (Alpine Linux, Linux kernel, Phosh, Plasma (Mobile), GNOME (Mobile), Sxmo, ModemManager, and so many more!). And of course everybody who has helped out in other ways, such as helping others to run Nura (e.g. in chats or IRL), improving documentation in the wiki, doing infrastructure and organizational work, or donating to Nura.
You are the people who make this possible!
And what's next?
- As a follow-up from all the organization changes, a new financial update will be published in the next months, together with associated changes to OpenCollective, as our relationship with our fiscal host is now changing.
- FOSDEM 2027 will happen on the 30th and 31st of January, and the Mainline Linux on Mobile devroom was accepted. The Call for Papers is now open, with potetial talks to cover not just Nura, but the whole space. Send your proposals!
Help wanted
- As a new release is approaching at the end of the year, you can help make sure it is stable by joining the Testing Team. No developer experience is required!
- After updating the English and Japanese leaflets, we could get some help updating the German and French versions.
- If you are active in the Nura project and community and want to continue helping, consider talking with other team members and applying to become part of the project!
We have started a public discussion about the future of membership. If you have an interest in helping shape the future membership of Nura, please have a look!
You can send us topics to include in the next blog post by commenting in: https://gitlab.nura.eco/nura/nura.eco/-/work_items/240.
If you appreciate the work we're doing with Nura and want to support us, consider contributing financially via OpenCollective.