Demonstration

1. A priori, anyone who makes the choice to waste tens or hundreds of euros/dollars in a smartphone has the means to intelligently use 1 €/$ by year to promote the development of the mobile OS component of this smartphone.

2. With Liberapay, the recurrent donations platform built with free software and translated into 22 languages, it's super easy and cheap to make anonymously a donation of 1€/$ by year.

3. Conclusion: Any Ubuntu Touch user can easily give 1€/$ by year (or more for some) to UBports via Liberapay.

Strangely, at the moment, only 40 Ubuntu Touch users (I presume) seem aware of this.
For the reputation and aura of the UBports project, it would be awesome that it be the one by far with the largest number of supporters on Liberapay.

So and because free as in "free speech" doesn't mean free as in "free beer", it's time to wake up, huge crowd of Ubuntu Touch users, overcome the huge laziness, and tries to saturate Liberapay server with your constant stream of very small (or large) donations !

Updates :

1. May 24 2018: 42 patrons, + 2
2. May 29 2018: 44 patrons, + 2
3. June 20 2018: 50 patrons, +6
4. July 9 2018: 56 patrons, +6
   ...
5. May 18 2021: 108 patrons, + 52

2020 is an important milestone for UBports and UT with new phones (pinephone, librem5 and may be vollaphone), halium 7.1 and may be Halium 9.1 to be used for new hardwares porting, new QT stack within sight :-), collaboration with others communities increasing,...

So it's interesting to follow how this affects certain data that are publicly available and gives an idea of the growth of the audience for UBports community and Ubuntu Touch.

20211116 (YYMMDD)

Twitter @UBports: 10,5K (~+0,5K) followers,
Mastodon https://mastodon.social/@ubports: 1,81K (+0,13k) followers
Telegram group UBports [ENGLISH] : 3717 (+27) members,
UBports forum: 6912 (+389) accounts, (L-00*, excluded),
Openstore Apps: 1055 (+21) (547(+29) + 167(-6)+ 341 (-2)),
translate.ubports.com "Used languages": 151 (+0),
translate.ubports.com "Registered users": 551 (+8)
Donators via Liberapay: 116 (+3)
Devices supported by UT : All 78 (+14), Phones 68 (+13), Tablets 7 (+1)
Distrowatch Popularity (hits per day): 12 months: 98 (120), 6 months: 98 (119), 3 months: 116 (75), 4 weeks: 107 (85)
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Twitter @UBports](https://twitter.com/UBports 10K (~+0,5K) followers,
Twitter @postmarketOS (https://twitter.com/postmarketOS 7562 (+782) followers,
Twitter /e/ foundation (https://twitter.com/e_mydata 7672 (+523) followers,
Twitter @hello_volla (https://twitter.com/hello_volla); 1608 (+170) followers,
Twitter @thepine64 (https://twitter.com/thepine64 33,4K (+2,9k) followers,
Twitter @Puri_sm (https://twitter.com/Puri_sm 22,2K (+0,6k) followers,
Twitter @JollaHQ (https://twitter.com/JollaHQ 38,9k (-0,1K) followers
Twitter @thefxtec (https://twitter.com/thefxtec 2706 (+112) followers

20210813 (YYMMDD)

Twitter @UBports: 10K (>= +509) followers,
Mastodon https://mastodon.social/@ubports: 1,68k (-0,01k) followers
Telegram group UBports [ENGLISH] : 3690 (+94) members,
UBports forum: 6523 (+324) accounts, (L-00*, excluded),
Openstore Apps: 1034 (+16) (518 (+12) + 173 (+5)+ 343 (+1)),
translate.ubports.com "Used languages": 151 (+0),
translate.ubports.com "Registered users": 543 (+17)
Donators via Liberapay: 113 (+6)
Devices supported by UT : All 64 (+6), Phones 55 (+6), Tablets 6 (+0)
Distrowatch Popularity (hits per day): 12 months: 100 (125), 6 months: 94 (129), 3 months: 92 (128), 4 weeks: 49 (212)
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Twitter @UBports](https://twitter.com/UBports 10K (>= +509) followers,
Twitter @postmarketOS (https://twitter.com/postmarketOS 6780 (+629) followers,
Twitter /e/ foundation (https://twitter.com/e_mydata 7149 (+638) followers,
Twitter @hello_volla (https://twitter.com/hello_volla); 1438 (+161) followers,
Twitter @thepine64 (https://twitter.com/thepine64 30,5 (+1,9k) followers,
Twitter @Puri_sm (https://twitter.com/Puri_sm 21,6 (+0,4k) followers,
Twitter @JollaHQ (https://twitter.com/JollaHQ 39k (-0,3K) followers
Twitter @thefxtec (https://twitter.com/thefxtec 2594 (+89) followers

20210513 (YYMMDD)

Twitter @UBports: 9491 (+441) followers,
Mastodon @ubports@framapiaf.org: 1,69k (+0,14k) followers
Telegram group UBports [ENGLISH] : 3596 (-3) members,
UBports forum: 6199 (+309) accounts, (L-00*, excluded),
Openstore Apps: 1016 (+2) (506 (+20) + 168 (-19)+ 342 (+1)),
translate.ubports.com "Used languages": 151 (+0),
translate.ubports.com "Registered users": 526 (+20)
Donators via Liberapay: 107 (+3)
Devices supported by UT : All 58 (+0), Phones 49 (+0), Tablets 6 (+0)
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Twitter @UBports](https://twitter.com/UBports 9491 (+441) followers,
Twitter @postmarketOS (https://twitter.com/postmarketOS 6151 (+655) followers,
Twitter /e/ foundation (https://twitter.com/e_mydata 6787 (+633) followers,
Twitter @hello_volla (https://twitter.com/hello_volla); 1277 (+119) followers,
Twitter @thepine64 (https://twitter.com/thepine64 28,6k (+2,3k) followers,
Twitter @Puri_sm (https://twitter.com/Puri_sm 21,2 (+0,6k) followers,
Twitter @JollaHQ (https://twitter.com/JollaHQ 39,3k (-0,2K) followers
Twitter @thefxtec (https://twitter.com/thefxtec 2505 (+92) followers

20210213 (YYMMDD)

Twitter @UBports: 9050 (+674) followers,
Mastodon @ubports@framapiaf.org: 1,55k (+0,26k) followers
Telegram group UBports [ENGLISH] : 3599 (+218) members,
UBports forum: 5890 (+196) accounts, (L-00*, excluded),
Openstore Apps: 1014 (+27) (486 (+19) + 187 (+1)+ 341 (+7)),
translate.ubports.com "Used languages": 151 (+8),
translate.ubports.com "Registered users": 506 (+27)
Donators via Liberapay: 104 (+18)
Devices supported by UT : All 58, Phones 49, Tablets 6
+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
Twitter @UBports](https://twitter.com/UBports 9050 (+674) followers,
Twitter @postmarketOS (https://twitter.com/postmarketOS 5496 (+656) followers,
Twitter /e/ foundation (https://twitter.com/e_mydata 6154 (+874) followers,
Twitter @hello_volla (https://twitter.com/hello_volla); 1158 (+201) followers,
Twitter @thepine64 (https://twitter.com/thepine64 26,3k (+2,6k) followers,
Twitter @Puri_sm (https://twitter.com/Puri_sm 20,6 (+1,2k) followers,
Twitter @JollaHQ (https://twitter.com/JollaHQ 39,5k (-0,3K) followers
Twitter @thefxtec (https://twitter.com/thefxtec 2413 (+249) followers

20201113 (YYMMDD)

Twitter @UBports: 8376 (+685) followers,
Mastodon @ubports@framapiaf.org: 1,29k (+0,13k) followers
Telegram group UBports [ENGLISH] : 3381 (+180) members,
UBports forum: 5694 (+ 299) accounts, (L-00*, excluded),
Openstore Apps: 987 (-91) (467 (-66) + 186 (-15)+ 334 (-10)),
translate.ubports.com "Used languages": 143 (+0),
translate.ubports.com "Registered users": 479 (+20)
Donators via Liberapay: 86 (+1)
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Twitter @UBports](https://twitter.com/UBports 8376 (+685) followers,
Twitter @postmarketOS (https://twitter.com/postmarketOS 4840 (+833) followers,
Twitter /e/ foundation (https://twitter.com/e_mydata 5280 (+626) followers,
Twitter @hello_volla (https://twitter.com/hello_volla); 957 (+175) followers,
Twitter @thepine64 (https://twitter.com/thepine64 23,7k (+2,8k) followers,
Twitter @Puri_sm (https://twitter.com/Puri_sm 19,4k (+0,4k) followers,
Twitter @JollaHQ (https://twitter.com/JollaHQ 39,8k (-0,3K) followers
Twitter @thefxtec (https://twitter.com/thefxtec 2164 followers

20200813 (YYMMDD)

Twitter @UBports: 7691 (+ 1184) followers,
Mastodon @ubports@framapiaf.org: 1,16k (+306) followers
Telegram group UBports [ENGLISH] : 3201 (+393) members,
UBports forum: 5395 (+ 664) accounts, (L-00*, excluded),
Openstore Apps: 1078 (+42) (533 (+12), 344 (+10), 201(+20)),
translate.ubports.com "Used languages": 143 (+0),
translate.ubports.com "Registered users": 459 (+35)
Donators via Liberapay: 85 (+32)
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