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@TabeaRoessner
Die Corona-WarnApp war ein gelungenes Beispiel für eine nichtinvasive (datenschutzfreundliche, rechtewahrende, ...) Bundes-App.
Leider ging die auch nur mit problematischen Betriebssystemen.

Erst durch die Community und https://social.tchncs.de/@CCTG (via https://social.tchncs.de/@fdroidorg@floss.social ) ging es dann auch auf googlefreien Androidgeräten, und dank @flypig mit #Contrac https://openrepos.net/content/flypig/contrac auch jenseits von Google mit SailfishOS.

Einzig: Alles, was als #App vermarktet und an den Mann gebracht werden soll ist oft genug #Bullshit, trackend oder diskriminierend.

Der Staat darf nicht die Abhängigkeit zu US Firmen zementieren und dadurch die Rechte seiner Bürger beschneiden.

@chbmeyer @TabeaRoessner Thanks for flagging #Contrac on #SailfishOS. I agree with what you say. A major strength of the Corona-WarnApp was its open development (both from Google/Apple and SAP). This was one of the reasons I chose the German app to implement and why other countries built on the same code base.

It's good to see this mentioned in the original article:

"The open process at the Corona-WarnApp can be considered a model."

[Please forgive my replying in English.]

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@chbmeyer @TabeaRoessner

But I'd add that while the open Corona-WarnApp dev process was good, it wasn't perfect and there were lessons to be learnt. I gave a talk about it at #FOSDEM2023

https://archive.fosdem.org/2023/schedule/event/publiccode_dpg_covid_exposure/

Ultimately I'd argue any government developed app should be open source with an open development process like this as a bare minimum.

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@flypig
Oh, thank you for replying at all. You have been my Contrac-hero in that times. It allowed me to take part in social life without too much restrictions - and without buying an Apple or Goole device.

I really felt guilty as I mentioned you in a german language post, but I see, you also read the german green party PDF about "Ideas for Future"! Great!

Thank you for pointing out your lessons learnt and your FOSDEM talk. I bookmarked it to view it later.

Thanks a lot for your voice and your opinion about government apps!

@TabeaRoessner

@chbmeyer @TabeaRoessner It's nice to think I might have done something useful, so that's really very gratifying to hear

One of the things I really enjoy about Mastodon is being able to read posts in different languages from all over the world I really enjoyed following your conversation here, I learnt a lot!