Free software business models and communities
An interview with one or more people involved in free software or a domain.
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
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 about more technical topics like ActivityPub integration, and the Open Podcast Prefix Project (op3).
Do you know Castopod? It’s the podcast platform that hosts Projets Libres!
In this two-part interview with Yassine Droghi and Benjamin Bellamy, the software’s founders, we cover a wide range of topics: what is a podcast? What’s Apple’s role? What is Podcasting 2.0?
Of course, we also talk to them about Castopod, its creation and the Ad Aures company.
Create 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 manufacturers, especially Fairphone, and the creation of their own product line, but also about the different modalities of software and hardware support.
At Free Projects we love Peertube. And that’s just as well, because there’s a lot going on right now, with the release of v6 and the announcement of the roadmap for v7!
In this long episode with Pouhiou and Booteille, we talk about its history and future, its close links with fediverse and its relationship with content creators.
Agnes Crepet, Head of IT and Software Longevity at Fairphone, takes us on a journey of discovery of the design and maintenance of an Android smartphone over the long term.
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.
We take a look at the Commown cooperative society with Florent Cayré, one of its founders.
Welcome to this episode where we take a look at the technical writer’s job with Fabrice Flore-Thébault.
After studying history and literature, Fabrice had a decisive encounter with free software. His career path has led him to explore different fields such as IT support, system administration and DevOps. Eventually, he found his calling in documentation writing at Red Hat, as Senior Technical Writer.
Remy Bertot is CTO and co-founder of Passbolt, a free and open source password manager software.
We go with him for a dive into the world of Passbolt: discover the birth of the software, its community and its business model. Remy also details the safety management, the regular audits, as well as the challenges ahead for the product.