Free software business models and communities
“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.
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 we want to live in and what digital technology we make in this society and what digital technology produces this society”
“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.
In this new episode, we talk about digital mediation, open source game consoles and personal data leakage. We tell you everything with Audric Gueidan, digital mediator, author of a book and a comic book and game console tinkerer.
Do you know how part of the European Free Software ecosystem is financed?
Discover the history and functioning of the NLnet Foundation, and the European Next Generation Internet NGI0 funds with Lwenn Bussière, Technology Assessor at NLnet!
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.
Designing an open platform to present, donate or lend your books? Building on wikidata data and enriching it?
That’s the subject of this episode, with Maxime Lathuilière, founder of inventaire.io.
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 and the European Member States
– Challenges ahead