👼 The Fairphone Angels Program (Local support by community members) - Offers and questions

[BertG]

Great!
But are you really sure, you want to leave your phone number in this public forum? I would advise against it, privacywise.
If you become one of the famous Fairphone Angels, you could easily be reached via a special “Fairphone-Heaven”-mail (if I got that right).
You just have to be put up as an angel.

[ValeFP]

thank you for your advice. You’re right! So do you suggest me to cancel my number?

By the way, unfortunately, here there are very less fairphoner and I hope the number will increase soon!

[BertG]

Yes, I would delete the number in this public forum.
You will sure be an angel soon.

You could ask some of the experienced angels for advise, if you are interested in organizing a meetup. This way you could help to increase the numbers of Fairphoners in your area.
E.g. @urs_lesse is organzing meet-ups regularly and knows how to get those events into the newspaper.
And maybe you will find some to be interested in helping you as angels too.

[Bittor]

Kaixo / hola,
¿Oraindik bilbon zaudela? / ¿sigues viviendo en bilbo?, es que soy nuevo en el foro. Soy de bizkaia (y vivo) y desde hace bastante tiempo me quiero pasar a los Fairphone’s, pero tengo varias dudas.

P.d.: ¿fairphone aingeru bat zara, ez?.

[iratxe]

Kaixo Bittor!

Yo también vivo en Bilbo. Soy usuaria de FP desde Febrero de 2016, y como dices, tambien miembro de la Comunidad. Diego y yo somos FP Angels en Bilbao, asi que podemos hablar por supuesto cuando quieras.

Si quieres pasame tu movil y te llamo,
Un abrazo,

Iratxe

[urs_lesse]

@Bittor Please use this:

[Bittor]

Thank’s , ezkerrak, gracias.

[markus_fp2]

Hallo zusammen, ich wäre bereit Fairphone Angel zu werden für die Region Bodensee-Oberschwaben. Nutzererfahrungen mit FP1 und auch Reparaturerfahrung mit FP2 habe ich, ein paar Ersatzteil sind bereits im Fundus. @Stefan, gerne darfst du mich auf die Map setzen! “Bodensee-Oberschwaben” könnte auch ein Name sein https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Region_Bodensee-Oberschwaben oder eben “Ravensburg”.

Viele Grüße aus 88212 Ravensburg

[urs_lesse]

Hat sich schon jemand mit dir in Verbindung gesetzt?

Ich würde auf jeden Fall für ravensburg fairphone • community plädieren.

[Volker]

Ja, ist beim Support schon beauftragt. Im Moment warten wir noch auf die Einrichtung der Mailingliste durch den Provider.

[markus_fp2]

Ja, schon passiert! Danke!!

[michaelpritsch]

Hi FP community! Are any Fairphone Angels out there that could help me install /e/ onto my FP3 in Munich? Thanks and enjoy your day!

[AnotherElk]

Please see the first post of this topic, section “How to get in touch” .

[Alex.A]

Hi everyone,
I became quite active on this forum lately, and I am now thinking about becoming a Fairphone angel for the town of Nantes, in France, where there isn’t any yet.
Although I have already read this thread in its entirety, I still have some unanswered questions to ask to angels, to have some feedback, before becoming one myself.

• I know it’s more whether I feel it or not (and I do !), but you must have a minimum knowledge about repairing Fairphones, don’t you?
• How much time does it take? Knowing I am still studying in high school, can this fit together?
• Would I be sent spare parts for FP3, as I don’t have one? I have plenty for FP2 though…

Thanks in advance and cheers!
Alex

[Ingo]

Hi Alex,

I can give you my personal view on this.

• When I joined the Angels program I basically knew nothing about smartphone repair (I had the FP1 at that time and never really opened it except for the battery and SIM/SD cards). For me it felt ok to just be able to help on the software side. And I guess one important aspect of being an Angel - for me - is to have a kind of an overview of “what’s going on” on the forums. Often enough it’s just pointing people to the right topic or giving information they were not able to find easily.
• The amount of time is probably fully up to you. And it will depend on decisions like do you want to organize regular meetings, too, or do you just act when you get contacted as an Angel?
• I’m not aware that Angels get equipped with spare parts but you could organize group buys to at least share the shipping cost with other people.

[Alex.A]

Thanks for your answer!

@Ingo

And it will depend on decisions like do you want to organize regular meetings, too, or do you just act when you get contacted as an Angel?

Yes, I thought about this and I will see depending on my available time, perhaps one and then the other.

@Ingo

I’m not aware that Angels get equipped with spare parts but you could organize group buys to at least share the shipping cost with other people.

Hmm I’ll have to think about this…

Well then count me in! Do I have to send a request to the angels’ group or will it be done soon?

[Stanzi]

Great to hear that you want to become a Fairphone Angel!
I’ll tag @Stefan here since he is responsible for the creation of new heavens.

To answer your questions:

• If you are able to swap out modules and can make educated guesses which module probably is at fault that’s completely enough
• In Vienna we only have max 4 requests per week, but usually only around 1-2. Many of them can also be easily solved by email, only some require a physical meeting. It will definitely not take a lot of time, you can easily keep studying (I e.g. am also an Angel for Linz, a city with about 250.000 residents and I didn’t get a single angel request from there since the coronavirus crisis started in march).
• They don’t, but there is already a solution for this. I can’t post it publicly I think, but don’t worry about it

[Volker]

@Stanzi

I’ll tag @Stefan here since he is responsible for the creation of new heavens

All @Archangels can do that. So I’ll at least start the process…

[Stanzi]

Is nantes@fp ... already active?

[Alex.A]

Well if it is I’m not aware of it So I don’t think so.