Ubucon Europe 2019 - State of the Touch - Ubuntu on phones and tablets
Channel: Ubucon Europe
Date: 2020-02-17

This session happened during Ubucon Sintra 2019 - Sintra - Portugal
https://sintra2019.ubucon.org/

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»State of the Touch - Ubuntu on phones and tablets«
by: Jan Sprinz

A deep dive into the present, past and future of Ubuntu Touch.

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Ubuntu Touch is the mobile version of the Ubuntu operating system. The project was started by Canonical in 2015 and saw great interest in the community from the beginning. In 2017, as part of Canonical's corporate restructuring, ownership of the operating system was transferred to the UBports Community, a volunteer-led group of developers who had previously worked on bringing Ubuntu Touch to third-party Android devices.

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Jan Sprinz

Board of Directors of the UBports Foundation

Jan Sprinz is a 22-year-old Ubuntu Community Member from Munich, Germany. He joined the UBports Community in 2016 to help with various supporting tasks around porting Ubuntu Touch to the Fairphone 2 and went on to play a key role in the early days of the transition of the Ubuntu Touch project leadership to UBports.
Jan is also a member of the Board of Directors of the UBports Foundation, the non-profit organization behind the community.
Jan studies computer science and political science at LMU and works as a student associate at the department of scientific computing at TUM.

Can find him at
https://mastodon.social/@NeoTheThird
https://gitlab.com/neothethird
https://snapcraft.io/ubports-installer

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Ubucon Europe 2019 was sponsored by:

# Diamond Sponsor #
Ubuntu - https://ubuntu.com/

# Gold Sponsors #
ANSOL - https://ansol.org/
Angulo Solido - http://angulosolido.pt/
Libretrend - https://libretrend.com/

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MySQL - https://www.mysql.com/

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Câmara Municipal de Sintra - https://cm-sintra.pt/
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TAP Portugal - https://www.flytap.com/
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Ubucon Europe 2019 on local news by SAPO Tek:
https://tek.sapo.pt/noticias/computadores/artigos/ubucon-europe-o-que-faz-a-comunidade-ubuntu-em-sintra-partilha-conhecimento-tecnico-e-estreita-ligacoes