Category: Community
All discussions about free software communities
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[Evaluating Free Software] Let’s de-google-ify evaluation: how does Framasoft choose its open source software?
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Framasoft is back in Projets Libres! How do they choose the software they host? We explore their criteria: scalability, moderation, economic model, collaboration with communities… Thomas Citharel and Pierre-Yves Gosset share their experience and their 2025 projects (alternatives to Notion, Canva, etc.). A rich episode for free software enthusiasts!
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[Transports] – Create a railway business software and federate players in Europe: OSRD and the OpenRail association – SNCF Réseau
![[Transports] – Create a railway business software and federate players in Europe: OSRD and the OpenRail association – SNCF Réseau](https://www.projets-libres.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/osrd-openrail-1280x426-1.png)
In this episode, we discover the creation of the OSRD (Open Source Railway Designer) business software within SNCF Réseau. Its goal? Simulate a railway infrastructure using open algorithms. Another originality, the governance of the latter has been transferred to the OpenRail association, whose creation by European network managers you will learn the details.
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[Transports] Transition: Simulating and Optimizing a Public Transit Network – Y.Brosseau & P.L Bourbonnais
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Transition: Simulate and optimize transit networks. How can an open platform help improve their transport networks? In this episode, Yannick Brosseau and Pierre-Léo Bourbonnais from the Polytechnique Montréal Mobility Chair share their experience with Transition, the solution that the chair is developing to help transit companies optimize their flows.
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An introduction to the OpenStreetMap project – C.Quest
“The OpenStreetMap project is to build the most complete, exhaustive, and up-to-date global database of free geographic data.” Together with Christian Quest, one of the founders of the French OpenStreetMap community, we explore the history of OSM, its governance and its community.
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Open Food Facts, from the technical side – Alex Garel
Second episode on the Open Food Facts project! In this episode with Alex Garel, one of the developers and community facilitator, we talk about the technical and organizational challenges around code, contributions, and infrastructure.
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Open Food Facts – episode 1 – Manon Corneille
Let’s discover Open Food Facts, the open source food database and open data. With Manon Corneille, Head of Partnerships, we discuss the following topics: – the genesis of the project – the structure and legal form of OpenFoodFacts – Relations with citizens, state agencies, researchers and consumer associations – OpenFoodFacts and European manufacturers, the state…
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Castopod is its own social network – episode 2 – Y. Doghri and B. Bellamy – AD AURES
Second episode on Castopod, the free podcast hosting platform. This was an opportunity to review Castopod’s revenue streams, its community and the pricing of Ad Aures’ SaaS offer. We also talk at length about what the Fediverse is, and Castopod’s place in it. There’s an extra at the end of the episode, where we talk…
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/e/OS a degoogled Android – Gaël Duval – e Foundation & MURENA
Categories: Business models, Community, Fair TEC, Legal, Next Generation Internet (NGI), Responsible computingCreate a free, free, privacy-friendly Android OS? This is the challenge launched by Gaël Duval! In this interview, we discuss with him the creation of the project, the structuring between company and association, the business model as well as the relationship of /e/OS with its software ecosystem. We also talk about the relationship with phone…
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Introduction to the business models and governance of free software – G. Le Bouder, R.Semeteys
How is free software managed and financed? What are the existing models and how they have evolved over time? These questions are simple and yet the answers are not obvious. In this episode, we give a first introduction with Raphaël Semeteys, architect and DevRel at Wordline and Gonéri Le Bouder, Senior Software Engineer at Red…
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Benjamin Jean – Lawyer and founder of INNO3
Let’s meet the profession of lawyer specialized in free software, with Benjamin Jean. Benjamin is a lawyer by training, and founder of the law firm Inno3.