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This is a place to ask whether free open source software exists for a particular purpose. If it’s non-existent, specify your software requirements here so your dream can be well articulated for everyone to either laugh at or share the dream and give moral support for you to create it yourself. Or you might even to pitch the idea so well that a developer loves the idea enough to run off and build it for you.

No other community exists for this purpose but there are some loosely related ones. If existing software closely delivers what you need but is missing a feature, you might post a wishlist/feature request here or in !bugs@sopuli.xyz.

The FSF has a software directory that can help with finding software.

Loosely related decentralised communities generally for FOSS:

There is also foss@beehaw.org but I don’t recommend it because the mod is trigger happy with censorship. E.g. if you post about FOSS advocacy it will get removed as it does not relate to any particular FOSS application. There are also many more FOSS forums duplicated in centralised places which are not conducive to the digital rights spirit of free open source software, so they are omitted.

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We need an app to harvest supported h/w lists of all FOSS smartphone platforms - to easily see which OS works on a particular phone (libretechni.ca)

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There are at least a dozen FOSS platforms for phones now. Off the top of my head:

Replicant
Jolla
Sailfish
Lineage
PostmarketOS
Graphene
e/os

Several more were mentioned in a recent FOSDEM talk. It’s becoming unsurmountable for someone to search on which OS works to what extent on what device. These FOSS platforms all have wikis and various ad hoc scattered datasets that are not in a proper importable format, like JSON or XML.

As always with FOSS, it’s disorganised. We need every portable platform project to publish a dataset in a standard format and ideally in somewhat standardized tables so folks can grab all the datasets to search more sensibly. I should be able to run an SQL command to show, e.g., what all platforms are available on phone model X which have wifi capability. And the reverse.. I might want to say which phone has wi-fi support on the most linux-based OSs.

Personally I wouldn’t even need an app. Just datasets to import into SQLite. But an app would make the data useful for more people.

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