Category: Community
All discussions about free software communities
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#42 – [No-code and Free Software] Silex, creating static and eco-designed sites since 2002
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From Flash to Jamstack, Silex, the open-source no-code tool for creating static websites, has a fascinating history! In this new episode, Alex Hoyau, the creator of the project, reveals his atypical background, his vision of a more collaborative web and how he built a viable business model around free software. We talk about eco-design, training,…
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#40 – [Transports] – Create a railway business software and federate players in Europe: OSRD and the OpenRail association
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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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#39 – [Transports] Transition: Simulating and Optimizing a Public Transit Network
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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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#38 – [Capitole du libre 2024] Projets Libres! : behind the scenes of an independent podcast dedicated to free software
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Projets Libres! is a French-speaking, volunteer, independent podcast that explores in depth the communities and business models of free software. With a one-hour show every two weeks, the podcast covers a wide range of topics, from Fediverse to ERPs, responsible IT, project finance, and digital commons. In this lecture, the author of Projets Libres! offers…
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#36 – Measuring Web Traffic with Matomo
How do you measure the web traffic of a site while being compatible with the GDPR? Let’s discover Matomo together with Matthieu Aubry, its creator! An episode where we explore the history of Matomo, its business models and the challenges encountered. As a bonus, a special announcement with Laurent Destailleur, creator of AWStats, at the…
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#35 – An introduction to the OpenStreetMap project
“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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#34 – Framasoft is 20 years old! (2/2): De-google-ify Internet
First of all, we’re going to have to support a whole bunch of people in the free software communities, who had a very, very simple vision of “Microsoft is evil” and to say “ok but it’s just evil is good, or use free software or proprietary”. The question is also “what choice of society do…
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#33 – Framasoft is 20 years old! (1/2) – The first 10 years
“What I remember is the capacity for transformation, certainly minimal compared to that of Google but absolutely not negligible that a tiny French-speaking association like Framasoft can have.
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#32 – The Eclipse Foundation – software sustainability and European sovereignty
At the Eclipse Foundation, our position is to say that we are here to help projects that aim at digital sovereignty to be structured. To help them collaborate to help them grow and eventually to project these technologies elsewhere in the world. Since we moved to Europe, interestingly, we’ve had a lot of projects come…
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#31 – Strategies for Open Source Startups – Emily Omier
Categories: Business models, Community, Community, Conference, Conference, Content creation, Content creation, Legal, Legal, Business modelsInterview with Emily Omier, Open Source Business Strategy Consultant Walid : it’s the new season of Projets Libres!, it’s the first recording since September. We’re really excited today because first of all I’m not alone in doing this interview, we’re going to meet someone who has already been in the podcast, it’s Raphaël Semeteys who…