 Gael, please, come on stage, if you will. So Gael Duval, he's a software engineer and entrepreneur, but he also created the first desktop-based Linux distribution in 1998, Mandrake Linux, based on KDE. So, and it was compatible with the famous or infamous PLF repositories. That's kind of the, that's how I came to know Mandrake as well. So, but more recently you launched this EOS project, a fully de-googled mobile operating system for the masses, and you're going to talk to us about this today. Welcome, Gael. The floor is yours. Thank you. Guten tag. I'm very happy to be here. It's pretty impressive to see all those people, actually, for me on stage. So, yes, we are building this de-google on privacy-friendly and open-source mobile ecosystem. So, how did it start? It was in 2017. I realized that I was using more and more, you know, Google services, and I had an iPhone at the time, and I wonder why, you know, as a Linux, previous Linux users and open-source supporter, long-time open-source supporter, I shifted from this open-source world to a much more proprietary world. It was a bit disturbing for me. And at the same time, I realized that there was really a concern, a question, with a personal data collection in smartphones. Just before we go to the next slide, who in this room is not using a smartphone? Please raise your hand. No one, so everybody can stay. And maybe you will be concerned to learn that you probably are using either an iPhone or an Android smartphone. And the bad news is that if you are using an Android smartphone, you have about 12 megabytes of your personal data that is sent every day to Google servers. And if you are using an iPhone, it's a little bit better, but it's still about six megabytes of your personal data sent every day to Google servers. This is a university research paper, actually. It's not myself who computed some things from the network sniffing. Actually, we are more and more to think that this should not happen because personal data are used for any purpose. And we have seen those scandals with Cambridge Analytica, et cetera. And we think that in the end, this situation could threaten our lives, like our freedom or even democracies. So this is really a huge concern. Imagine if the postman before he would distribute your mail, your real mail, I mean, in your mailbox, if he would open every letter and see the content and add a little flyer with some context tool advertising, for instance. That would be a huge business model. The thing is that it's not possible because it's forbidden by laws. And what is forbidden by laws in the real world is totally authorized in your smartphone. And this is happening every day from your pocket. So for me, this situation was not acceptable anymore. And I started to look for alternatives. I actually, I didn't find any acceptable alternative at the time, even for me or for my family or my close friends. So I started to wonder that maybe there are some open source bricks that we could use to make a new product that would be more respectful with a user's privacy and offer some guarantee in term of personal data collection. And so I started to look for those bricks and to my surprise, and good surprise, I realized that most of those bricks were already available. The difficulty was to, those bricks actually were not always made to work well together. So there was a big effort to do, to bring everything together and have this work into a consistent and usable product for a large audience. So the next step for me was to test the idea. And the best way I found to test the idea was to launch a Kickstarter by the end of 2017, where I announced that I wanted to build this new mobile ecosystem for a large audience. And to my good surprise, again, the Kickstarter was very successful. We did four times the target in term of money. And maybe more importantly, I received a lot of messages from all around the world, from people who were thanking me to start this project and were encouraging me because they were already also looking for something to escape Google and Apple on the smartphone. So this was very, very encouraging. And this is how everything started four years ago, actually. So soon in 2018, I started to create a small team of engineers and there was a community who was supporting the project. And in a little bit less than one year, we succeeded to release the first mobile operating system called EOS that was fully Googled. And also a cloud-based, mainly based on NextCloud, where users could see there are images, et cetera, from the operating system. So what is it exactly? When we say completely de-Google, something that nobody or maybe a few people know is that even in lower levels of Android, the Android open source project, there are some features in the source code that send some data to Google. When you start your smartphone, there is a connectivity check that is performed. Actually, the smartphone is looking for internet, for internet access. And this connectivity check is a ping to Google servers. So each time someone is starting an Android smartphone, Google already knows about it. And there are many things that we have discovered like NTP servers that are configured by default in the source code. It's static, it's configured with Google DNS NTP servers and it's the same for DNS servers. And then you have many other features in the middleware and in the end user features where all the time, all the software is sending some of your personal data to Google. So what is this personal data we are talking about? It's a lot of things actually. It's your location, all the time they know where you are so they can guess what you are doing. In some case, it's your search on internet. It's your browsing history. It's the applications you are using when you are using them. So this is really a lot of your digital life that they know about to fuel their business model. And the thing is that in 2022 now, your digital life and my digital life is very close to my real life. So in the end, they really know a lot about you and this is happening worldwide. So we did this effort to clean all the lower level stuff, replace the Google services with a nice open source project that is called MicroG that is useful for instance for push notifications. And we replaced also a few print style applications that are your email applications, calendar, contacts, maps, messages, and app store also. And we replaced this with open source application. Actually, there is one exception today. This is the maps application because it's magical and it's a proprietary application. We hope that this can change or that we can soon find a good enough alternative to this. We started with AOSP and jurid because we wanted to stay compatible with all the mobile applications, Android mobile applications. So on EOS, you can run any Android application and you can browse those applications using an application that we call AppLounge actually and which is getting applications from different sources. One is from Google Play Store actually but with an anonymous mod. The other is from F jurid where you can find a lot of open source application. And the third one is from web application, progressive web apps actually. And all the streams come into a single place with a consistent user experience for users. Again, EOS is really something that we are designing to fit a large audience. It's not for tech savvy people who know how to tune their smartphone, to prevent data collection. It's really for mom and dad and my children, those people who most of the time don't have any technical knowledge. Also, one of the things I forgot to say that in this AppLounge, we have this nice feature that shows many trackers are built in each application that you consider to install. So this way you can decide if maybe this application has too many trackers, I don't want to use it or on the other hand, oh, okay, it only has one tracker or no tracker which is better, and it's an application I can install. And we put this logic a little bit further this year. We have introduced something called Advanced Privacy. Advanced Privacy is a module that we have developed that has a few features to protect your privacy better. We see that one question is about applications. DOS now is really clean in terms of, you know, by default, by design, it doesn't send any information to Google, but now third-party applications often have those trackers that send some, your usage information to many different third parties. And so those trackers, now you can see many ones are active in real time for what application and the stepover is to let users cut those trackers. So with EOS now, you can see how many trackers have been cut over a given time. Just to give you an example, for myself, I've looked for September trackers have been cut more than 400,000 times, 300,000 times in one month. That's really a huge activity that is mostly invisible for most users. Other cool features we have introduced is the ability for users to fake their location. So if you want your application thing that you are in the middle of the Pacific Ocean, you can do this, and another thing is to fake your IP address using the Tor network. We don't recommend users to use this all the time because it has a lot of side effects, but in some case, if you want to stay under the radar, you can use this feature. And we have also those online services based on NextCloud and a few other open source software that lets users synchronize very easily their pictures and content, et cetera, to the cloud or to have a backup. We have one gigabyte of free storage and the users can subscribe for more storage. That's a very basic business model, actually. Okay, so we see that we have this operating system that by design is not sending any data to Google, and we have been very happy to learn last year that it's been confirmed by a research paper at the University of Dublin. They confirmed that EOS, among all the devices they have tested, EOS was the only one that was sending nothing by default. Also, we support 250 different smart phones today. We have some partnerships with some hardware vendors like Fairphone, they help us to port EOS to the Fairphone 3 and then to the Fairphone 4, and we had a lot of demand for this, actually. And also with Gigaset that you probably know because it's a German company that is selling some pretty cool smart phones. And also for the US, we have a partner that is called Terracube, and we also work with some refurbishers. So what's next? So now this is the Merena one that we have introduced. We have started to sell our own hardware. This is a pretty nice smartphone, actually, with good performance for the price. It's our first iteration with the hardware, and we hope that maybe later we can have some more custom features on the hardware, maybe some kill switches for the camera or the sound. And we are also working on end-to-end encryption because we think that it's really something that will be useful for users to protect their personal data, definitely. The main concern we have today is with usability because when you are using some end-to-end encryption features, most of the time you have to keep this recovery phrase in case you lose your password, for instance, and if you forget this recovery phrase, maybe three years after, you can eventually lose everything forever of your data. So we are working to improve this usability with a program that we have, a European program with NGI and DAPSI, and we are working also on a few other features. Okay, we are getting notice in the press. So I'd like to say thank you to everyone. If you want to learn more, you can go to the foundation, which is the foundation sites on merena.com for the commercial part. And thank you for your attention. I hope we can build a better, more private world together. Thank you. Thank you so much, Guylm.