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An interview with one or more people involved in free software or a domain.

Odoo Community Association: Odoo, the community way – J. Grand-Guillaume

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“Alone we go faster, but together we go further. I would strongly advise getting involved in the Odoo Community Association now to get recognized before customers finally start asking for it.” Come and discover the OCA with Joël Grand-Guillaume, its president.
Together we look back at the challenges of its creation, its operation, its financing and relations with Odoo SA. We also talk about his community and his future.

The MiXiT conference – ethics and diversity in tech – A.Neveu, G.Alexandre

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Have you heard of the MiXiT conference?
Since 2011, it has been the place to talk about ethics and diversity in tech!

With Audrey Neveu and Grégory Alexandre, two of the members of the organization, we look back at the history, values and challenges of the conference.

NLnet Foundation: Funding Free Software in Europe – Lwenn Bussière

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Fondation NLnet

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!

Open Food Facts – episode 1 – Manon Corneille

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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

Castopod is its own social network – episode 2 – Y. Doghri and B. Bellamy – AD AURES

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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).

Castopod and the podcast environment – episode 1 – Y. Doghri and B. Bellamy – AD AURES

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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.

/e/OS a degoogled Android – Gaël Duval – e Foundation & MURENA

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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.