DivestOS is fundraising, no longer sustainable ($12,000 goal)

Sharing this because it’s one of the most promising Android projects we recommend on Privacy Guides, and it would be a huge detriment to the Android/Privacy community at large if this developer is no longer able to continue this work :(

Happy New Year!

DivestOS and the Divested projects as they currently stand are ultimately unsustainable.

My goal for 2023 was to acquire a grant to continue my work, I was unsuccessful.

Today I am announcing a fundraiser of raising $12,000 USD by end of February.

It may be a stretch to ask, but I hope you all have found sufficient value in my work to keep these projects going.

If it is unsuccessful I will switch to a full-time job and the Divested projects will take a backseat.

To those who have donated, I truly appreciate your support.

Thank you - Tavi/Tad.

RedNight,

I’m not a heavy user of the Divested ecosystem or use the ROMs, but I’ll donate to keep the options healthy and encourage good work! I wish there were a couple more cryptocurrency options like ethereum and bitcoin cash.

Gooey0210,

I don’t use any of their roms or apps but will donate $1-5

Have heard good things about the project, and there’s actually not that many similar projects out there

Long live foss, we are a legion

electro1,
@electro1@infosec.pub avatar

Omg, this is a one man’s effort ?!!!

I thought they were a group of devs ( hence Divested Computing group ) !!

Anyways I’ll see what I can do

sv1sjp, (edited )
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We are supporting on site/translating or trying to build DivestOS on new devices but most of its projects, the base is being maintained by Tad

electro1,
@electro1@infosec.pub avatar

Well I hope this goal is met before the end of the month, for a project this big not just in size but also in it’s impact on the privacy community it’s really not that much, I don’t use the OS but I use apps such as Mull and Hypatia and I would hate to see them die 😿

neurospice,

This dev is very important to the FOSS android ecosystem. I’ve divested an old phone and I love how opinionated the project is in regards to security. They are very active and take the project very seriously - when I submitted a bug report on github I got a response within three minutes!

Please donate!

Imprint9816, (edited )

This was a big concern in the Kuketz review. The whole project is basically one guy. Now this guy needs 12k in the next 7 weeks to keep going.

Divest is an amazing project and dealing with these costs is a major issue for any small business. Hoping for the best!

Donated. If you don’t reach the goal, hopefully it helps out in someway.

mamus,

@jonah this is important!

He develops fennec, mull and much more.

loki,

I wouldn’t say he develops fennec, he contributes to fennec. relan develops fennec. Mull depends on fennec to remove proprietary blobs and builds it along with user.js from arkenfox.

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