F-Droid @fdroidorg@mastodon.technology

We just published a post with some #FDroid stats from 2019 and a call for support.

https://f-droid.org/en/2020/02/16/statistics_2019.html

F-Droid will soon have stricter requirements for apps showing up in the "Latest" tab in the F-Droid app:

https://news.f-droid.org/posts/2019-03-26-the-latest-tab-now-highlights-good-descriptions/

If you are an app developer consider adding good descriptions, screenshots and a "Whats's New" section for your app.

If you notice that your favourite app doesn't fulfill all these requirements consider notifying the app's developers or just help them with a merge request adding the missing info to the source repo.

F-Droid is featured in #TWIT's FLOSS Weekly: https://twit.tv/shows/floss-weekly/episodes/572

#drip - a menstrual cycle and fertility tracking app is now available via F-Droid 🎉 : https://f-droid.org/packages/com.drip/

The next update will be coming soon.

We received $10.000 funding in our collective (https://opencollective.com/f-droid) from the Mozilla Open Source Support Program (MOSS) speed dating event that happened during #FOSDEM.

These funds will be used for making the f-droid build process work faster and more reliably.

Dear @Google, please whitelist all apps from http://f-droid.org or show us a single example of malware included in F-Droid.

https://www.blog.google/products/android/new-malware-protections-advanced-protection-users/

We are now approved as an organization on github sponsors: https://github.com/sponsors/f-droid

We only have mirrors of our repositories on github, but if using github sponsors is a convenient way to donate to projects for you, feel free to use this.

The funds will be contributed to our #opencollective without any additional fees.

You can also find other options to donate here https://f-droid.org/donate/

The #Jitsi meet app in F-Droid should be updated to the latest version by tomorrow!

https://f-droid.org/en/packages/org.jitsi.meet/

Good luck to everyone doing remote work at this time.

Copycats welcome! 🙂
If you want to post a bounty on an app, please get in touch with us (matrix/irc/gitlab/forum).

Thanks to @Alex-Esko, who put a 100€ bounty on the packaging of Calculator++ (https://f-droid.org/en/packages/org.solovyev.android.calculator/), the app is now available through F-Droid for everyone. 🎉
(With an update fixing the remaining bugs introduced by the F-Droid build coming very shortly)

We added a brand new page with donation options for F-Droid: https://f-droid.org/donate/

You'll also get redirected to this page now after downloading F-Droid from the homepage.

Feedback welcome.