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🚀 Open Call: MOBIFREE Accelerator
Building open-source or ethical tech? Apply for free business & sustainability support!

Apply here (takes 10mins): https://murena.io/apps/forms/s/BCCeGb8LBwZPtDTaxnf8KQMT

For SMEs, startups, FOSS teams & mission-driven projects working on openness, privacy, interoperability & human-centred design.
You get: business support, workshops, mentoring & peer exchange.
📅 Deadline: 27 May 2026
💻 Online, 2 half-days in September
💸 Free

#MOBIFREE #FOSS #NGI #OpenSource @ngi @murena @e_mydata @nlnet

Strypey Feb 5

#TIL about #MOBIFREE;

"The Freedom in Human-centred and Ethical Mobile Software (MOBIFREE) project works to give European citizens and organizations more choice in, and access to, human-centred and ethical mobile software."

https://mobifree.org/#how-it-works

#HatTip to the @fdroidorg folks who are a partner in this project, and referenced it in their retrospective on 2025;

https://f-droid.org/en/2026/01/23/fdroid-in-2025-strengthening-our-foundations-in-a-changing-mobile-landscape.html

#EU #EthicalTech #MobileComputing

NGI0_Moldova Dec 29

📌 NLnet Foundation announcement: welcome aboard 17 #free and #opensource projects to contribute to the three NGI Pilot programmes! 🤩
These programmes each focus on a specific domain:
🎯 NGI #Taler works on privacy-preserving digital payments,
🎯 NGI #Fediversity builds the hosting stack of the future,
🎯 NGI #Mobifree is liberating the mobile landscape.

Read what each project is working on 👇
https://nlnet.nl/news/2025/20251226-project-selection-pilots.html

@nlnet #NGI0 #NGIZero #fossfunding #OpenSoftware #openhardware

F-Droid Sep 11, 2025

This week in #FDroid (TWIF) is live too:

* More #NGI #NLnet #Mobifree funded projects
* More ways to shape #EU #DMA legislation
* #ExodusPrivacy might need a hand
* #Syncthing #SyncthingFork v2 on Android, backup and import your settings
+ 2 new apps
& 164 more updates
- 2 archived apps

On your marks, get set, Sync: https://f-droid.org/2025/09/11/twif.html

Did you sync too? | F-Droid - Free and Open Source Android App Repository

This Week in F-DroidTWIF curated on Thursday, 11 Sep 2025, Week 37Community NewsNine projects will receive grants within the NGI Mobifree and NGI Fediversity...

Coagulate 🅅 May 30, 2025

Just submitted a proposal to @nlnet #NGI #Mobifree to support the development of remaining features, our upcoming larger internal beta UX study, interoperability research, and improving developer onboarding.

Getting that support would be an amazing push towards bringing privacy friendly contact details and location sharing to the masses 🚀

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Erik Wesselius May 21, 2025

@venite Ja. Mooie duurzame verpakking, zoals verwacht mag worden van Fairphone. Ik ga ‘m pas morgen uitpakken, want ik ben vandaag verder de hele dag op pad. Ik zal de komende maanden hier via mijn Mastodon account regelmatig verslag doen van mijn ervaringen. #mobifree @waag

F-Droid Apr 29, 2025

The signs were in plain sight:

✅ having a dev funded to work on the Client
✅ our support of #NGI
✅ #FDroid being a key partner in #Mobifree
✅ splitting client functionality into libs
✅ wrestling with #targetsdk
✅ dipping our toes into #MaterialDesign

What do all these compound to? All revealed in https://f-droid.org/2025/04/29/mobifree-client-funding.html

NGI Mobifree funds client app overhaul | F-Droid - Free and Open Source Android App Repository

The F-Droid app was created in 2009 in the early days of Android and lots ofits code is still that old. While the ecosystem has seen many drasticshifts, the...

Marleen Stikker Apr 19, 2025

Pretty funny and pretty serious… Jeremy Ettinghausen offers the rules of the game and an incomplete review of everything that he will be replacing with unAmerican alternatives https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2025/apr/19/this-unamerican-life-can-you-really-divest-yourself-of-everything-from-the-us?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other #fairphone #Mobifree #mastodon #proton

This un-American life: can you really divest yourself of everything from the US?

iPhones and Google Maps are out – and you can keep your existing friends from across the pond, but don’t go making any new ones

The Guardian

Ik werd net bijgepraat door zoon die bij de testgroep hoort en de eerste opdrachten gemaild kreeg... Er zijn al een aantal feedbackpuntjes.

https://mastodon.nl/@voorstad/114191015356684618

#waag #mobifree #murena

Eelco Mulder :mastodon: (@[email protected])

Nice project, the mobifree project to give European 🇪🇺 citizens and organizations more choice in, and access to, human-centred and ethical mobile software. https://mobifree.org My son has been chosen to participate in one of the usergroups and is now attending the first session in Amsterdam @[email protected] to receive a test Fairphone with @[email protected] . Curious to follow this project! #mobifree #/e/os #privacy #ethics

Mastodon.nl door Stichting Activityclub

Eelco Mulder

🇪🇺Mar 19, 2025

Nice project, the mobifree project to give European 🇪🇺 citizens and organizations more choice in, and access to, human-centred and ethical mobile software.

https://mobifree.org

My son has been chosen to participate in one of the usergroups and is now attending the first session in Amsterdam @waag to receive a test Fairphone with @e_mydata . Curious to follow this project!

#mobifree #/e/os #privacy #ethics