Android is a mostly free operating system mainly developed by Google.
Unfortunately, the drivers for most devices and most applications from the "market" are not free as in Free Software. They frequently work against the interest of the users, spy on them and sometimes can not even be removed.This workshop will help you to run your Android system as free as possible and - by doing this - to regain control of your Android device and your data. You will no longer be in need of a Google account and you can use f-droid, a free software App repository, instead.For further background information about Android and how to liberate your device, please have a look at FSFE's FreeYourAndroid campaign [1]
If you like to liberate your device you will need a mobile device, of course, as well as a laptop. If you like to attend the workshop you should further :
1) make sure that you can unlock the bootloader of your device
2) check if Cyanogenmod can be run on your device [2]
3) be aware that - even though this is unlikely - you might lose data,your device might be bricked and that you most likely declare yourwarranty void if you unlock your phone.
4) register
please have a look at our wiki [3] to get more information.
To register for this workshop, please send an email to eal (at)
fsfe.org
and tell him your *exact* device that you will bring to the workshop.
[1]
http://freeyourandroid.org
[2]
http://www.cyanogenmod.com/devices
[3]
https://wiki.fsfe.org/Android/Workshop
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