# Sure!

DevFeed: [Sure!](<https://devfeed.tech/articles/sure-1853.md>)

Original publisher: [Read original article](<https://signal.org/blog/sure/>)

Published: 2013-03-28T00:00:00Z

Content type: opinion

Language: en

Sources: [Signal Blog](<https://devfeed.tech/sources/signal-blog.md>)

Topics: [Open Source](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/open-source.md>), [Application Development](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/application-development.md>), [Android](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/android.md>), [iOS](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/ios.md>), [Messaging](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/messaging.md>)

Tags: [android](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/android.md>), [application-development](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/application-development.md>), [ios](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/ios.md>), [messaging](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/messaging.md>), [mobile](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/mobile.md>), [offline](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/offline.md>), [open-source](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/open-source.md>), [video](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/video.md>)

## AI overview

An essay about Open Whisper Systems' Spring Break of Code, contrasting the group's practical focus on technology with its shared open-source, activist, and humanist philosophy. It also recounts the author's earlier mobile application work, including an offline Wikipedia client and an unsuccessful video messaging service for iOS, alongside Moxie's Android app development.

## Source excerpt

Spring Break Of Code, Day Four The main sound on top of the ocean is the click clack of laptop keys, and the jangle of test calls and SMSes. A neighbor stopped by to comment that we must be the next Facebook, the next Google; working instead of surfing made sense in his mind only in the land of money at the end of the tunnel. He loaned us his stand up paddle boards, surely expecting a return on investment 10 fold down the line when we exited into the sunset. A journalist visiting Open Whisper Systems' Spring Break of Code commented that she expected more philosophy, politics, and conversation. After all this group is composed of people who are not only technologists, but also open source evangelists, activists, and humanists. Lilia went over some of the why, but practically anyone could see we were concentrating on the how, and in the frenzied silence it was clear that a common philosophy was assumed and what bound us here was the challenges in the technology to power that philosophy. Read more...