Notices by Flathub (flathub@floss.social)

Ever wonder how we help keep millions of users safe while delivering thousands of apps and their updates?

We’ve written up a bit about the journey an app takes behind the scenes from its source code all the way to running on your device—with all of the safety nets along the way. 🔒

https://docs.flathub.org/blog/app-safety-layered-approach-source-to-user

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Have experience in open source program management, especially within the US legislative landscape? We’re seeking a contractor to help bootstrap Flathub into a self-sustaining entity. Help us:

• Launch payment & donation systems
• Establish operational governance
• Coordinate financial & legal operations
• Ensure community engagement & transparency
https://discourse.flathub.org/t/request-for-proposals-flathub-program-management/8276

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@gamingonlinux 🙋 thanks for filing the issue! https://github.com/flathub-infra/website/issues/4247

It’s been just over a week and we’ve gotten lots of great feedback so far.

If you’re an app developer and haven’t had a chance to chime in, check out @cassidy’s summary of the current points, and leave a comment on the forum if you have anything important that hasn’t been mentioned:

https://discourse.flathub.org/t/app-developer-feedback-about-quality-guidelines/8037/31

We look forward to continued feedback, and are excited to get more apps featured on Flathub!

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Linux app developers, we want your feedback!

If you have an app on Flathub (or are planning to), please share your thoughts on the optional quality guidelines—especially if your app doesn't currently meet the guidelines.

https://discourse.flathub.org/t/app-developer-feedback-about-quality-guidelines/8037

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Today's the day 🥳✨🌈

The new home page layout is live on https://flathub.org now, including:

- Banner with 5 featured apps (updated weekly)
- App of the day
- New group for trending apps
- Tabbed section with trending, popular, new and updated apps

This has been almost a year in the making, including tons of work on documentation, backend, frontend, and the actual metadata in apps. Special thanks to @razze and @tbernard!

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@forteller online LLM features are covered by OARS social-info:

>Information Sharing
>
>Defined as sharing information with a legal entity typically used for advertising or for sending back diagnostic data.
>
>For example, this would include sending your purchasing history to Amazon.
>
>None
>Mild: Using any online API, e.g. a user-counter
>Moderate: Sharing diagnostic data not identifiable to the user, e.g. profiling data
>Intense: Sharing information identifiable to the user, e.g. crash dumps

The popular DJ software @mixxx is now official on Flathub :twitter_verified:

Announcement: https://mixxx.org/news/2024-02-21-official-flatpak-now-available-on-flathub

Get Mixxx on Flathub: https://flathub.org/apps/org.mixxx.Mixxx