100 days of postmarketOS blog post

Created by: ollieparanoid

Motivation

The 50 days of postmarketOS post worked out well:

• it summarized the most important new features and changes in the project
• quite a lot of Linux developers in /r/linux and hackernews read it and got to know about the project: the stars on GitHub for pmbootstrap increased rapidly the day this was posted, and so did the reader count in both /r/postmarketOS and the IRC/matrix channel - some people even attempted fresh ports and joined the project!

General information

• postmarketOS will reach it's 100st day in one week on Sunday, 03-09-2017, so I would try to release the post between Saturday (night) and Sunday. (See also: postmarketos_days.py)
• I would release this post together with the new homepage design of postmarketos.org (see postmarketOS/pmbootstrap#321 and the work done here in the next branch)
• This post will not be written from my perspective at all (unlike the blog posts on my blog), it will show what we have achieved together!
• I suggest we add this post as a PR, so everyone can improve it before it gets published and the whole process is generally more transparent.
• In my opinion, it makes sense to write the names of the people who have contributed to a specific enhancement or port when talking about it, but feel free to discuss this!

Topics

Here's my incomplete list of topics that I recommend to include (added pings to people in the back, in case they want to prepare a cool photo or screenshot, or polish the feature a bit more). I have not scrolled through the commits/PRs yet (planning to do that, so I don't miss any names!), so this is from memory and excuse me if you or your favorite contributions are missing from this list. Please correct me 👍

• WIP UIs: Plasma Mobile, Hildon/Maemo (@PureTryOut, @bhush9, @NotKit)
  • pmOS presented at KDE Akademy (@bhush9)
  • use @PureTryOut's gif of booting to plasma and interaction
• Qemu (@pablog, @MartijnBraam)
• Initramfs on screen keyboard (@craftyguy, @MartijnBraam)
• new flash methods (heimdall-bootimg, adb) (@ata2001)
• new export methods: odin, android recovery zip (@drebrez, @ata2001)
• new infrastructure: logo, homepage, wiki, travis testing, offtopic channel (@MartijnBraam, @yuvadm, @cmdrwgls)
• lots of initramfs improvements (@drebrez)
• new device ports (everyone!)
• open source bootloader for Mediatek devices (@McBitter)
  • one specific device actually, but from there it could be made work on other devices
• link the Milestones at the end, a lot has happened there
• N900/QEMU using the mainline kernel (@craftyguy, @MartijnBraam)
• Freedreno experiments (@opendata26)

Please name missing things that you would like to see in the post and add links to awesome media such as photos and screenshots.