[Testannounce] "Fund Your App" Update

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Fund Your App Updates


  "Fund Your App" Update


      Over 2,500 App Votes So Far!

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Apps

*Thank You!*

We want to say thank you for the initial votes to fund your app - we are
already at 25% of our 10,000 app vote goal! The top 5 apps are currently:

 1. Firefox
 2. Battery Life
 3. Signal
 4. Pure Maps
 5. Standby Time

*Calendar and VLC are close behind...*

With your help we can learn priorities and fund the development behind
the entire list. *Go vote to fund your app today!*

Fund Your App <https://puri.sm/fund-your-app/>


    We Built the Foundation

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When we announced the Librem 5 phone campaign we set out to build a
phone from scratch that respects your freedoms and protects your privacy
and security while also competing with the existing phone duopoly. We
knew that this would be a massive undertaking, so instead of doing too
many things and doing them poorly, we stayed focused and committed to
the Librem 5 shipping with core functionality in place such as the
ability to place phone calls, send text messages, and browse the web.

By focusing on the operating system and core features we knew that the
Librem 5 would ship with a solid foundation we all could build on top of.

This was not an easy task but here we are, about to cross the finish
line and ship our mass-produced "Evergreen" batch of the Librem 5 phone!
Along the way we have developed a convergent operating system PureOS by
developing and releasing an adaptive mobile and desktop combined GUI
(phosh), and developed and released all the code around the underlying
modules (phoc, squeekboard, libhandy, libfeedbackd, etc). We also
authored and released software applications including Calls to manage
phone calls and Chatty to manage text and other messaging. We have also
advanced true convergence–the ability to shrink your desktop environment
down to your pocket–to allow the power of desktop computing software all
from your mobile phone.

We have had our heads down focused on this goal for a long time, but now
that we are about to cross this historic milestone, we are ready to lift
our heads up, look around, and ask “what’s next?” Now that we have laid
the foundation, we can start building the rest of the house.


      This is where you come in

As we build this house, we want to make it a place you don’t just want
to visit, but want to live full-time. As we transition the Librem 5 from
core functionality into your "daily driver" we know that there is
probably at least one “killer app” or feature you depend on right now
that isn’t yet on the Librem 5. The challenge is that everyone has a
different killer app! We want to focus our next efforts where they will
help the most people transition the Librem 5 into their daily driver, so
today we are announcing the “Fund Your App” campaign which will give you
an opportunity to vote with your dollar and fund the areas you’d like us
to advance.

Support the Movement <https://puri.sm/fund-your-app/>
Purism

Thanking you for your support,
— the Purism team (feedback at puri.sm)

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