Category: Community
All discussions about free software communities
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#45 – [Transport] Public transport : open data and European regulation
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You use journey planning tools — but do you know where the data comes from? And are you aware of the role played by the EU and its member states in all this? With Tu-Tho Tai, we talk about open transport data, the revised European regulations after COVID, and the measures taken by member states.
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#44 – [The Fundamentals] Governance in projects and companies
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Do you know what governance is in a free software project? 🤔 And in a company? In this new episode of Projets Libres!, Sébastien Dinot, free software expert at CS Group, sheds light on these crucial questions. He dissects the different governance models, their advantages and disadvantages and the importance of open governance for the…
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#43 – [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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#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
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…