Introduction to Droidian by Bardia Moshiri

Overview

In this presentation, Bardia, the current lead of the Droidian project, introduces the audience to Droidian, a Debian-based GNU/Linux distribution designed specifically for mobile phones. The community is made up of FOSS and privacy enthusiasts dedicated to building an open and versatile system for smartphones.

Technical Aspects

• Porting Process: Explains how Droidian is adapted to different mobile devices.
• System Architecture: Discusses Droidian's unique approach to system design.
• Components and Backends: Details various components used in Droidian, providing essential functionality.

Demonstrations

• System architecture: Showcase Droidian's system architecture
• Phone customizations: Showcase our customized components to ease usability

Future Plans and Challenges

• New features: Plans to add new features and make the system more user friendly
• Optimizations and cleanups: Continuing effort to optimize and improve the stack
• Ongoing Maintenance: Continual efforts to refine and improve Droidian.
• Challenges: Acknowledge issues that are yet to be solved
• App Development: Focuses on libadwaita and other essential apps.

Community Involvement

• Call for Active Maintainers: Encouraging more contributors to join.
• Userbase Expansion: Strategies to increase the number of Droidian users.
• New Device Support: Ongoing efforts to make Droidian available on more devices.
• Enhanced Documentation: Working on better documentation to aid users and developers.

Join the Droidian project to contribute to a future of open and privacy-respecting mobile systems!

Droidian Website and Resources

• Main Website: droidian.org
• Device Page: devices.droidian.org

Droidian Sources

Main Git Organization

• Droidian: github.com/droidian

Device Organization

• Droidian Devices: github.com/droidian-devices

Image Organization

• Droidian Images: github.com/droidian-images

Release Engineering Organization

• Droidian Releng: github.com/droidian-releng