Fairphoners Meetup at 36c3 in Leipzig end of December!

Yes indeed, the Chaos policy is relatively strict.

My favourite story about the event is how I booked a room for 15 since I thought that there would be limited interest on day 4 at 14:00… I was wrong. But the CCC orga is insane. So even before I really understood that the crowd really was there for me, two CCC angels had already decided to switch two rooms and put the Fairphone meetup in a much larger room. Later, when I got out, somebody had put up signs. Just crazy work going on in the background. Amazing community. Would recommend for anybody here in the forum!

I began with an improvised introduction about what Fairphone is, how the three phones evolved over the time. Very quickly, we shifted to very technical discussions on how to unlock bootloaders, what TWRP can do for you to do full disk backups and what kind of tweaks you need to get the most out of your Fairphone. I had prepared a couple of questions I wanted to discuss with the others:
“What’s the weirdest bug you ever encountered”

  • obviously the whole "turn flashlight on to be able to turn it off and activate disc encryption
    “What is your favorite support story”
  • Actually being able to call in and talk to a real human even though some people were dissatisfied with support
    “Why wouldn’t I give a Fairphone to my mother?”
  • My parents need phones that work no matter what and where backups are super easy - therefore a Fairphone is not necessarily the most interesting device.

After 1.5 hours, we decided to break up in four different corners. I took the Fairphones 2 and 3 apart for interested people while others from the audience who were really savvy about hardware and software gathered with people who had questions. I answered questions until an hour after the end of the slot and helped with a couple of dead spare parts. So yeah, really great event!!

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I just showed up as you discussed the “Why wouldn’t I give a Fairphone to my mother?” issue
Sadly I had some Community shifts shortly after U_u

About the Complaints I heared in those 10 minutes I stayed…
I’m not sure if those Problems where Fairphones in general or specifics

So I just want to say how pleased I am about the Fairphone 3, I own it since mid October and to this date, I never had a Crash/Reboot or Problem Calling out or receiving Calls.

I’m still a bit bummed about the Firmware “openness”
Which is non-existant.

There is room for improvement. I have some minor inconvenience, for example the Status LED is still not working as I was used to from my previous Phones, but this is more or less nitpicking

Cheers
Aaron

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A Fairphone 3 is as easy and good as an average mid-range smartphone. Making backups is easy with Android / Google. The tricky part is when you want to avoid Google.

Yes, cause there’s spooks there as well :smiley:

Thanks once more @hnms for organizing the meetup! It was great seeing so many people showing up =))).

For the photo policy at congress, it’s basically very simple: Ask everybody in the picture if they agree to be photographed (or filmed), before taking the picture.

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