J-D Q1 bulletin / Special edition on Covid

As you may have heard lately, coronavirus is raging around, now officially classified as a pandemic.
This issue of the J-D bulletin cannot ignore this problem, and will also deal with this in the first part.

Sources on Covid-19

There are a lot of fake news raging around in the web. Starting on mid February, I started to read on the topic, just when the first italian case popped out.

I read many article, here is an article that list the best one:

The best sources and articles on #coronavirus.

There is also a Coursera course by the Imperial College London & Abdul Latif Jameel Institute for Disease and Emergency Analytics.

News from Italy

Also, there are a lot of fake news raging around on Italy’s situation. The serious outbreak is in Bergamo and Brescia provinces, some outbreaks in Lombardy region, while the rest of Italy is basically locked down preventing the arrival of covid-19.
Nothing of dystopian is happening.

The Coronavirus Outbreak in Bergamo, Lombardy.
https://jolla-devices.com/news/j-d-q1-bulletin-special-edition-on-covid/

Coronavirus in Italy, on the beginning.
https://medium.com/@giovanniminelli/coronavirus-in-italy-an-update-3cc84838ff1e?source=friends_link&sk=e80f2916e36099e5919a70829297aad8

Lastly, this piece look at some anticipation of future, caused by this crisis:
What Coronavirus is teaching us and previews about the future.
https://medium.com/predict/what-coronavirus-is-teaching-us-and-previews-about-the-future-1572c02bf52a

Sailfish OS

Top news

The top selling Redmi Note 7 get its Sailfish OS porting (beta)!

First preview build of #SailfishOS for #Xiaomi #RedmiNote7 (lavender) is now available, enjoy! https://t.co/G0Jxt8C8L8 https://t.co/gngGWiaieO pic.twitter.com/iq8JZEeOLI

— Danct12 (@RealDanct12) March 29, 2020

Pinephone

The Sailfish OS porting for Pinephone is making progress.

#SailfishOS on the @thepine64 #PinePhone working SMS (and mobile data). @JollaHQ @latenightlinux pic.twitter.com/nanTZ0qvkW

— Adam Pigg (@adampigg) March 20, 2020

Sailfish OS can now boot from the internal eMMC storage of the @thepine64 #PinePhone https://t.co/QJrVZZdyRl @JollaHQ #jolla #sailfishos #mainline #Linux

— Dylan Van Assche (@DylanVanAssche) March 22, 2020

Apps!

My new file manager app is comming together nicely! #Jolla #SailfishOS #VerdandiTeam pic.twitter.com/Rx9kVdyFeM

— Michał Szczepaniak (@Mister1Magister) March 25, 2020

Webpirate returns, the hero returns.I had not used Webpirate in a while and I had already forgotten how good it was and how many hours @dax89 & me spent developing its intuitive and useful interface. You can try it again thx to Bobsikus: https://t.co/jNsM17ava8 #sailfishOS #Jolla pic.twitter.com/mGAvSaVwUD

— Fernando Lanero (@ferlanero) March 23, 2020

What about a Telegram client for #SailfishOS? I want to get rid of this Android-💩 of Google.

— War On Terror Scam (@WarOnTerrorScam) March 24, 2020

Other conversations

Step away from Slack? PS I hate slack, it’s the Whattsapp group for Project managers…

I don't mind. I don't like Slack. They're also based on US soil which means the FISA/FISC can rule a secret court order which will be handed over by the FBI to force them to cooperate and to be quit about it otherwise they'll end up in jail for many years. Telegram works for me.

— War On Terror Scam (@WarOnTerrorScam) March 24, 2020

One ore thing

Really, there is not a pratical, or a UX reason to do it, but this project is interesting as a step to get Sailfish OS working into an old iPhone 7 when it will get out of support. (Next year?)

Here is an iPhone 7 booting Android ! pic.twitter.com/cfCdSEzTbo

— matteyeux (@matteyeux) March 4, 2020