Flatpak, Pledge To Help Our Primary Industry (Farming)

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Working with the Flatpak team over the past six weeks has, I'm sure +Victoria Maclennan will agree, been an honour and a privilege. And now it's your turn to help this amazingly focussed team bring their product to market (a market they have validated with the likes of FMG as well as many individual farmers).




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