Open sourcing proceeding

Dear @attah,

I’ll start with the wikipedia which is quite readable and not a technical one. Currently, Sailfish OS do not have A-GPS and that’s why we promoted Sailfish Community News, 15th May 2025 - BeaconDB over here. We do have a good to go from the BeaconDB maintainer to use it and we do want to give him credits let’s say in Settings → About. You, Sailfish Community, also pointed these option for example here BeaconDB problems with MicroG Services .

That said, this won’t solve all issues immediately but we can start gathering local information for the BeaconDB – @nephros had earlier some ideas also regarding Sailfish OS app. So, maybe we could create a Sailfish OS app that could be used to gather beacon data. For the open community, it looks that BeaconDB is getting traction and we as a community should be involved to help. @mal already made BeaconDB to work but we should create a release containing it. Maybe even a minor update release. Personally, I’d want to have it deployed for us all.

The BeaconDB aligns very well with us. It’s an open initiate that started after Mozilla quit their service (Mozilla Location Service aka MLS). Together we can do a difference there and help it to improve.

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