I'm writing this post here today in hopes to bring some attention to something that is near and dear to my heart, and that's an update to the current situation with Nova Launcher, that I worked for and with for nine years up until August of 2024.

For those that haven't seen the news, Kevin Barry, the founder and developer of Nova has left Branch which in turn means he's now no longer involved with Nova Launcher in any way going forward.

teslacoilapps.com/nova/solong.…

For the past year or so Kevin has stated that he was working on the open source version of Nova Launcher so that if/when this time came, it would be out in the open and the community could take it over and contribute to it and have it continue being developed.

However, it seems that Harish Thimmappa and others at Branch had told him to stop working on that effort as they didn't want him to continue doing that for unknown reasons. This is sad news because this was something that former CEO, Alex Austin, had promised both via a contract and publicly that if Kevin were to ever leave Branch, Nova Launcher would become open source. You can find that quote here:

reddit.com/r/Android/comments/…

and another very similar quote with similar conversation here:

reddit.com/r/Android/comments/…

The reason for this post is to try and draw some attention to the folks at Branch, specifically folks like Harish Thimmappa to do the right thing and honor these promises and any writings in the contracts from 2022 and to fully focus on releasing Nova Launcher as an open source app.

The community deserves this more than anything, since that was something that Kevin was very adamant about when he allowed Branch to acquire Nova Launcher back in 2022. Plus, this is just something that Branch should do since it is something that has been promised.

There is currently a petition on Change.org to try and get Branch to do this as well. After only 3 days of it being posted to Change.org, it sits at almost 1,500 signatures, and that's with very little to no press coverage at this time, which is something that would be super useful to bring full attention to this situation. You can find the petition here:

change.org/p/make-nova-launche…

I ask that everyone who sees this post can share it with their followers as I would love to see Branch do the right thing and follow through with their promises that were made back in 2022 when they acquired Nova Launcher and release it fully as an open source app now that Kevin is no longer working for Branch and not involved in Nova Launcher.

I'm going to tag some folks below that I worked with at Branch in hopes of getting this post seen by as many folks there as possible.

#NovaLauncher #Nova #Branch #BranchMetrics #OpenSource #OpenSourceNova #Petition #Android #Apps #Google

Macht doch bitte mal mit allen Euren Freund*innen, Eurer Familie, Menschen an Eurem Arbeitsplatz folgendes, ganz einfaches Experiment:

Fragt, ob die Person im Schnitt mehr als 1000 Euro am Tag an Zins- und Dividendengewinnen auf ihrem Konto gutgeschrieben bekommt, oder entsprechende Aktiengewinne einstreicht.

Wenn das nicht der Fall ist, habt Ihr eine weitere Person gefunden, die von einer Vermögenssteuer profitieren würde und keinesfalls selbst von der Steuer (als zahlende*r) betroffen wäre. Dann ist es nur noch ein kleiner Schritt, die Person davon zu überzeugen, die Europäische Initiative zur Einführung einer Vermögenssteuer mitzuzeichnen:

eci.ec.europa.eu/038/public/#/…

Da braucht es nämlich noch ein paar Stimmen ... ein paar viele sogar.
Im Gegensatz zu den zahlreichen Klickibunti-Petitionen, die keinerlei Verbindlichkeit haben, ist das hier eine, die in einem Gesetzgebungsverfahren münden könnte, wenn genügend Menschen sich anschließen.

#Vermögenssteuer #EU #Petition

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Fedizens! Hello!

In the process of

*working on a petition to get a 🏳️‍⚧️ woman's death investigated

*being denied GAC as MA DMH patient myself and

* continuing to network with various law and legal groups I've come across a horrible truth:

⚠️MA Dept of Mental Health has no policies in place to ensure gender-diverse patients receive gender-affirming care!⚠️

This is shocking when considering that

👉🏼MA's Dept of Corrections already have policies and procedures in place👈🏿 to ensure inmates receive life-saving gender-affirming care!

We already have law and policy makers and legal advocacy groups expressing interest in fixing this. However, let’s sign this petition to ensure the job gets done! You know what to do!

action.allout.org/en/m/68f5998…

Please sign, share and # boost!

🏳️‍⚧️✊🏾🏳️‍🌈

#transgender #enby #petition
#activism #queer #lgbtqia #disability #HRT
#genderaffirmingcare

Demand MA's Dept of Mental Health offers GAC

Massachusettes' Dept of Mental Health currently has ZERO policies to ensure patients have access to gender affirming care!

^{action.allout.org}

Liebe Mitstreiter*innen,

die #Bezahlkarte für #Geflüchtete halten wir u.a. für diskriminierend, entmündigend und verfassungswidrig - das haben wir schon öfter gesagt.

Auf dem Treffen zwischen Bundeskanzler und Ministerpräsident*innen letzte Woche wurden neue Details verhandelt, z.B. eine Bargeldobergrenze von 50 €. Gegen all das wendet sich diese #Petition des Flüchtlingsrat Berlin - wie wir Teil der Kampagne gegen die Bezahlkarte:

weact.campact.de/petitions/nei…

Gerne teilen!

#Asyl #Migration

Nein zur Bezahlkarte! Ja zur gleichberechtigten Teilhabe ALLER Menschen!

Die Bezahlkarte ist in unseren Augen: Entmündigend Die Bezahlkarte greift massiv in das Selbstbestimmungsrecht der Betroffenen ein. Sie dürfen maximal 50€ Bargeld im Monat abheben, Überweisungen ins In- und Ausland sind komplett untersagt.

^WeAct

Wer noch mehr "kriminelle Energie" hat, oder wie Demokraten sagen würden; freien Willen, kann gerne mal die #Petition der #duh (Deutsche Umwelthilfe) für das Verbrenner-Aus unterzeichen.

duh.de/ja-zum-verbrenneraus/

Deutsche Umwelthilfe e.V.: Rettet das Verbrenner-Aus!

Die Union will mit einer groß angelegten populistischen Wahlkampagne das beschlossene Verbrenner-Aus in der EU kippen! Damit torpedieren sie die einzige wirksame bisher beschlossene EU-Klimaschutzmaßnahme im Verkehrsbereich.

^{Deutsche Umwelthilfe e.V.}

I'm going to #boost this a bit, to at least broaden its reach. Likes/favorites don't play into an algorithm here (thank goodness) and don't help visibility, and not all servers are federated (and some federated feeds are firehoses anyway).

@bookstodon, if you're tired of having to throw out still perfectly working #tech that suffers #PlannedObsolescence only because the closed-system software bricks them, check out this #petition.

Same to artists everywhere, @Curator.

Petition: Against the adoption of mass surveillance of messengers, e-mail and chats in the EU.

#eu #privacy #petition

change.org/p/against-the-adopt…

Sign the Petition

^Change.org