Category: Digital commons
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[Open Data] FPOSM: the french federation of OpenStreetMap professionals!
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Discover the federation of OpenStreetMap professionals, the only group of companies in the world recognized by the OpenStreetMap Foundation! How did she train? Who makes it up and what are its actions? We tell you everything!
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[Associations] The April association episode 3: Libre à vous! and Libre à lire!
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Last episode on April, the association for the promotion of free software. Today we are talking about the radio show Libre à vous! and the transcription site Libre à lire!
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[The Fundamentals] Open source as seen by a researcher – Amel Charleux
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Discover Open Source, through the research of Amel Charleux, Associate Professor at the University of Montpellier. Business models, competition and coopetition between players, AI: another look at our ecosystem that allows us to take a step back!
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[Open Data] The National Building Reference System (RNB) – the creation of a national database
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Why create a unique identifier for each building in France? How do we create this national database, and with whom? Today we welcome the co-founders of the National Building Reference System (RNB), a database that defines a unique identifier for each building, in order to cross-reference disparate basic data.
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[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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[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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[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
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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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[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.