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.

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.

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.

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!

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 )
@sv1sjp@lemmy.world avatar

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 😿

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

Gooey0210, (edited )

Now you! 1000027180

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.

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