• Dans le Strasbourg piétonnisé, passants, terrasses et cyclistes se marchent sur les pieds
    https://www.rue89strasbourg.com/centre-strasbourg-pietonnise-passants-terrasses-cyclistes-cohabitat

    Plus de voitures, plus de problème ? Si seulement. Dans le centre-ville démotorisé, l’espace désormais libéré occasionne de nouveaux conflits entre piétons, riverains, cyclistes et commerçants. Petite déambulation dans le Strasbourg estival où l’enfer, c’est les autres.

    • Le revend… une misère.

      Acheté pour un milliard de dollars en 2013, Tumblr a été revendu pour une somme dérisoire (2% de son prix d’achat)
      https://www.lemonde.fr/pixels/article/2019/08/13/la-plate-forme-tumblr-vendue-au-proprietaire-de-wordpress-com_5499009_440899

      En 2013, Yahoo ! avait dû sortir un milliard de dollars (900 millions d’euros environ) pour en faire l’acquisition. L’ancien géant du Web a depuis été racheté par Verizon. Qui a aujourd’hui décidé de se séparer de Tumblr au profit d’Automattic, l’entreprise propriétaire de WordPress.com, la célèbre plate-forme de blogs.
      Si le prix de la transaction n’a pas été rendu public, il serait dérisoire par rapport à la valeur de Tumblr en 2013, selon le site américain Axios, qui évoque une somme inférieure à 20 millions de dollars.

    • Pourquoi Verizon se sépare du site de blogging Tumblr
      https://www.latribune.fr/technos-medias/internet/pourquoi-verizon-se-separe-du-site-de-blogging-tumblr-825715.html

      Verizon, qui restructure sa branche médias, a décidé de vendre Tumblr à l’entreprise américaine Automattic, propriétaire de Wordpress.com. Si Tumblr a été adoubé lors de sa création à New-York en 2007, le site de blogging navigue depuis en eaux troubles et n’a jamais été monétisé.

      Verizon fait le ménage. Le géant américain des télécoms a annoncé lundi 12 août la vente du site de blogging Tumblr à Automattic, l’entreprise américaine qui distribue Wordpress.com. Le montant officiel n’a pas été communiqué. Il s’agirait d’un « montant symbolique » pour Verizon, selon le Wall Street Journal. Le site Axios indique pour sa part une fourchette allant de 10 à 20 millions de dollars.

      « Tumblr est l’une des marques les plus emblématiques du Web », a déclaré dans un communiqué de presse Matt Mullenweg, Pdg d’Automattic. « C’est une plateforme essentielle pour partager des idées et des expériences (...) »
      Automattic y verrait une utilisation complémentaire de ses services pour les internautes, selon le Wall Street Journal. L’entreprise américaine réfléchirait à des partages de services et fonctionnalités entre Tumblr et WordPress.com. Automattic va ainsi reprendre 200 salariés de Tumblr.

      Lancée en 2007, la plateforme héberge aujourd’hui plus de 475 millions de blogs dans le monde entier. Elle permet en effet de partager gratuitement des textes, des vidéos, des photos ou encore du son. L’entreprise américaine a surtout popularisé sur Internet les GIF, ces images qui se répètent en boucle et qui ont contribué à la viralité de Tumblr.

      Si Tumblr parvient toujours à fédérer une large communauté active, la plateforme a perdu de sa superbe. Le site revendique 22 millions de publications par jour - contre 100 millions en 2014. À ses débuts à New York, la plateforme indépendante misait sur une interface simplifiée permettant de créer un blog en deux clics, et un design léché. Elle a rapidement été délaissée au profit de services concurrents, comme Instagram et Snapchat.

      Tumblr a commencé à naviguer en eaux troubles lors de son rachat en 2013 par Yahoo ! - portail internet déjà vieillissant - pour 1,1 milliard de dollars. La plateforme n’a pas échappé au défi des réseaux sociaux : générer des revenus. Or, elle n’a jamais réussi à monétiser ses contenus en dépit de sa large audience. Conséquence : Tumblr a été déprécié d’environ 712 millions de dollars sous les ailes de Yahoo !

      En 2017, Tumblr est devenu propriété de Verizon, lorsque ce dernier a mis la main sur Yahoo ! La plateforme figurait depuis dans la filiale Verizon Media Group (anciennement baptisée Oath), qui regroupe les anciennes propriétés de Yahoo ! et AOL, telles que le HuffPost, TechCrunch, ou encore le média féministe Makers et le site people Build.

      Actuellement en pleine restructuration, cette branche souhaite se concentrer sur une nouvelle stratégie d’abonnement et de contenus originaux. Verizon Media Group a généré un chiffre d’affaires de 1,8 milliard de dollars au deuxième trimestre, en baisse de 2,9% sur un an. C’est pourquoi il souhaite se recentrer entre autres sur l’actualité, le sport, le divertissement. En janvier dernier, le Wall Street Journal dévoilait que la branche média de Verizon souhaitait licencier 7% de ses effectifs, soit environ 800 personnes.

  • « L’équilibre avec la nature n’a jamais existé, on ne voit donc pas comment il pourrait être rétabli »
    https://www.lemonde.fr/idees/article/2019/08/06/l-equilibre-avec-la-nature-n-a-jamais-existe-on-ne-voit-donc-pas-comment-il-

    Pierre Jouventin et Serge Latouche commencent par en rendre responsable la philosophie des Lumières au XVIIIe siècle et en font même remonter la cause à Descartes. Analyse, disons-le, à la fois caricaturale et un tantinet anachronique. Ainsi, dans sa lutte contre la philosophie scolastique, Descartes n’a pas dit que « l’homme s’institue “maître et possesseur de la nature” », mais qu’il fallait « nous rendre comme maîtres et possesseurs de la nature ». Et ajoutait-il immédiatement : « Ce qui n’est pas seulement à désirer pour l’invention d’une infinité d’artifices, qui ferait qu’on jouirait sans aucune peine des fruits de la Terre et de toutes les commodités qui s’y trouvent, mais principalement aussi pour la conservation de la santé, laquelle est sans doute le premier bien et le fondement de tous les autres biens de cette vie. » Tout autre chose donc que d’en faire le père d’un rapport prédateur à la nature.

    J’avoue que de plus en peur je me rebiffe quand j’entends les discours anti-Lumières ou anti-modernité, car je pense que cela masque trop souvent des attitudes anti-démocratiques, un recours exagéré aux experts (sous couvert de la "relativité" des analyses). Ce qui est en jeu, loin de céder aux obsessions des post-modernes, c’est de définir une nouvelle modernité, qui reprendrait le SENS de l’acte émancipateur des Lumières, tout en transformant ce qui est historiquement, culturellement et philosophiquement daté. Je ne saurais que renvoyer au petit opuscule de Marina Garcès "Nueva illustracion radical" pour cela). En se sens, je partage les points soulevés par Jean-Marie Harribey et Pierre Khalfa.

    Tout cela renvoie à une analyse unilatérale de la modernité. Pierre Jouventin et Serge Latouche ont raison de pointer que la modernité a été profondément marquée par une vision scientiste et positiviste du monde s’inscrivant dans l’imaginaire social produit par le capitalisme productiviste. Mais elle nous a aussi permis de remettre en cause des conceptions du monde qui servaient de couverture idéologique à des rapports d’oppression féroce, notamment envers les femmes.

    En ce sens, la modernité a été un processus d’arrachement à ce qui était vécu comme un milieu naturel, processus qui a permis la création de la subjectivité occidentale et a créé la possibilité de l’émancipation. La modernité occidentale est née de cette imbrication et s’est révélée être un processus contradictoire dans tous ses aspects.
    « Sagesse millénaire »

    C’est dans ce cadre qu’il faut discuter du rapport entre les êtres humains et la nature (il est d’ailleurs dommage qu’ils emploient « homme » au lieu d’être humain). Ainsi nous disent-ils : « L’homme ne peut survivre qu’en symbiose avec l’écosystème terrestre (…) Pendant trois cent mille ans, Homo sapiens a lui aussi vécu en équilibre avec son milieu. » Or cet équilibre avec la nature n’a jamais existé et on ne voit donc pas comment il pourrait être rétabli.

    Même aux temps les plus reculés de l’histoire de l’humanité, le rapport à la nature a été une construction sociale faite certes de recherche d’une symbiose accueillante, mais aussi de violence, d’utilitarisme et de mysticisme. Refuser un rapport d’instrumentalisation prédatrice à la nature doit-il nous entraîner à rechercher une nouvelle chimère, celle d’un monde apaisé dans lequel les êtres humains trouveraient spontanément leur place dans une nature enfin préservée ?

    #Lumières #Economie #Politique

    • Ce qui est en jeu, loin de céder aux obsessions des post-modernes, c’est de définir une nouvelle modernité, qui reprendrait le SENS de l’acte émancipateur des Lumières, tout en transformant ce qui est historiquement, culturellement et philosophiquement daté.

      Peut-être faut-il ne pas rester obnubiler par les post-modernes (qui, par là-même, restent un épiphénomène de la modernité)...

      Auto-définition de l’Encyclopédie des Nuisances :

      À la différence de celle qu’inspirent régulièrement le marché de l’édition ou l’idéologie d’État, notre Encyclopédie ne se prétend nullement l’héritière et la continuatrice du vieux projet des encyclopédistes du XVIIIème siècle. Le seul rapport qu’elle souhaite entretenir avec l’aspect positif de leur entreprise de recensement, c’est d’en renverser le sens, aussi radicalement que l’histoire à renversé celui du progrès matériel qui portait leurs espoirs. Ainsi, pensons-nous d’ailleurs redonner tout son emploi historique à la négation passionnée des chaînes de la superstition et de la hiérarchie qui animait ce qui n’aurait été sans elle qu’un bien morne catalogue.

      Extrait de la 1ère thèse de « Sanglante Raison » de Robert Kurz (traduction inédite, Gérard Briche) à propos des critiques romantiques de la modernité :

      Certes, il ne faut pas que la critique se laisse guider par la seule « colère viscérale » ; il faut aussi qu’elle soit intellectuellement légitimée de manière entièrement nouvelle. Même si elle utilise les concepts de la théorie, cela ne signifie pas un retour aux standards mêmes de l’Aufklärung : c’est au contraire la conséquence de la nécessité de détruire l’autojustification intellectuelle de l’Aufklärung. Il ne s’agit pas, à la manière rationaliste, de brider les affects au nom d’une raison abstraite et répressive (et donc au rebours du bien-être des individus) : il s’agit au contraire de briser la légitimation intellectuelle de cette auto-domestication moderne de l’être humain. En ce sens, on a besoin d’une anti-modernité radicale, émancipatrice, qui ne tombe pas dans le modèle trop connu d’une simple « Anti-Aufklärung » ou d’une simple anti-modernité, « réactionnaires » (elles-mêmes bourgeoises occidentales, idéalisant un certain passé ou « d’autres cultures »). Mais d’une anti-modernité qui au contraire fasse rupture avec toute l’histoire passée, qui est une histoire de rapports fétiches et de rapports de domination.

  • Persian Language & Literature : Samad Behrangi : The Little Black Fish
    http://iranchamber.com/literature/sbehrangi/works/the_little_black_fish.php


    Painting by Farshid Mesqali

    Une collection d’oeuvres de Samad Behrangi et d’autres auteurs iraniens
    http://iranchamber.com/literature/sbehrangi
    http://iranchamber.com/literature

    The Little Black Fish

    It was the longest night of winter. At the bottom of the sea an old fish gathered together 12,000 of her children and grandchildren and began to tell them this story:

    Once upon a time a little black fish lived with her mother in a small pond on the side of a mountain. Their home was behind a black, moss-covered rock, under which they both slept at night. The little fish longed to see the moonlight in their home just once. From morning till evening, the mother and child swam after each other. Sometimes they joined other fish and rapidly darted in and out of small crevices. The little fish was an only child, for of the 10,000 eggs which the mother had laid, only she had survived.

    For several days the little fish had been deep in thought and had talked very little. She swam slowly behind her mother around the pond and did not play with the other fish. Her mother thought her child was sick and would soon be well. In fact, the black fish’s sickness was really something else!

    Early one morning before the sun had risen, the little fish woke her mother and said

    “Mother, I want to talk to you.”

    Half-asleep, the mother responded

    “Child, this isn’t the time to talk. Save your words for later. Go swimming?”

    “No, Mother! I can’t go swimming anymore. I must leave here.”

    “Do you really have to leave?”

    “Yes, Mother, I must go.”

    “Just a minute! Where do you want to go at this hour of the morning?”

    “I want to go see where the stream ends. You know, Mother, I’ve been wondering where the end of the stream is ... I haven’t been able to think about anything else. I didn’t sleep a wink all night. At last, I decided to go and find where the stream ends. I want to know what’s happening in other places.”

    The mother laughed - “When I was a child, I used to think a lot like that. But, my dear, a stream has no beginning and no end. That’s the way it is. The stream just flows and never goes anywhere.”

    “But mother dear, isn’t it true that everything comes to an end ? Nights end, days end, weeks, months, years ...”

    “Forget this pretentious talk,” interrupted the mother - “Let’s go swimming. Now is the time to swim, not talk.”

    “No, Mother, I’m tired of this swimming, I want to set out and see what’s happening elsewhere. Maybe you think someone taught me these ideas but believe me, I’ve had these thoughts for a long time. Of course, I’ve learned many things here and there. For instance, I know that when most fish get old, they complain about everything. I want to know if life is simply for circling around in a small place until you become old and nothing else, or is there another way to live in the world ?”

    When the little fish finished the mother exclaimed - “My dear child, are you crazy? World! ... World! What is this other world! The world is right here where we are. Life is just as we have it...”

    Just then, a large fish approached their home and said: “Neighbor, what are you arguing about with your child? Aren’t you planning to go swimming today?”
    Hearing her neighbor’s voice, the mother came out of the house and said, “What’s the world coming to! Now children even want to teach their mothers something!”
    How so? “asked the neighbor.”
    Listen to the places this half-pint wants to go!" replied the mother. “Saying over and over again I want to go see what’s happening in the world. What pretentious talk!”

    “Little one,” said the neighbor, “let’s see. Since when have you become a scholar and philosopher and not told us?”
    "Madam," answered the little fish, “I don’t know what you mean by ’scholar’ and ’philosopher,’ I’ve just gotten tired of these swims. I don’t want to continue this boring stuff and be happy as a fool until one day I wake up and see that like all of you, I’ve become old, but still am as dumb as I am now.”
    "Oh, what talk!" exclaimed the neighbor.
    “I never thought my only child would turn out this way,” said the mother. “I don’t know what evil person put my sweet baby up to this.”

    “No one put me up to anything,” said the little fish. “I have reason, and intelligence and understanding. I have eyes and I can see.”
    "Sister," said the neighbor to the little fish’s mother, “do you remember that twisted-up snail?”
    "Yes, you’re right," said the mother. “He used to push himself on my baby. God knows what I would do to him!”
    "That’s enough, Mother," said the little fish. “He was my friend.”
    "Friendship between a fish and a snail," said the mother, “I’ve never heard of such a thing!”
    "And I’ve never heard of a fish and a snail being enemies," replied the little fish. “But you all drowned the poor fellow.”

    “Let’s not bring up the past,” said the neighbor.
    “You brought up the subject yourself,” said the little fish.
    “It served him right to be killed,” said the mother. “Have you forgotten the things he used to say everywhere he went?”
    "Then," said the little fish, “kill me too since I’m saying the very same things.”

    To make a long story short, the arguing voices attracted the other fish. The little fish’s words angered everyone.

    One of the old fish asked, “Did you think we’d pity you?”
    "That one just needs a little box on the ears," said another.

    “Go away,” said the black fish’s mother. “Don’t you touch my child.”
    Another of them said, “Madam, if you don’t raise your child correctly, you must expect it to be punished.”
    The neighbor said, “I’m ashamed to live next to you.”
    Another said, “Let’s do to the little fish what we did to the old snail before it gets into trouble.”

    When they tried to grab the little black fish, her friends gathered around and took the fish away from the brawl.

    The black fish’s mother beat her head and chest and cried, “Oh, my baby is leaving me. What am I going to do? What a curse has fallen upon me!”
    "Mother, don’t cry for me. Cry for the old fish who stay behind."
    “Don’t get smart, half-pint!” shouted one of the fish from afar.
    “If you go away and afterwards regret it, we won’t let you come back,” said a second.
    “These are useful fancies. Don’t go,” said a third.
    “What’s wrong with this place?” said a fourth.
    "There is no other world. The world is right here. Come back! Said a fifth.
    “If you turn reasonable and come back, then we’ll believe you really are an intelligent fish,” said a sixth.
    “Wait, we’ve gotten used to having you around ...” said a seventh.
    The mother cried, “Have mercy on me. Don’t go! Don’t go!”

    The little fish didn’t have anything more to say to them. Several friends of the same age accompanied the fish as far as the waterfall. As they parted, the fish said,
    “My friends, I hope to see you again. Don’t forget me!”
    "How would it be possible to forget you?" asked the friends. “You’ve awakened us from a deep sleep. You’ve taught us many things that we had not even thought about before. We hope to see you again, learned and fearless friend.”

    The little fish swam down the waterfall and fell into a pond full of water. At first the fish lost its balance but after a while began to swim and circled around the pond. The fish had never seen so much water collected in one place.

    Thousands of tadpoles were wriggling in the water. They laughed when they saw the little black fish,
    “What a funny shape! What kind of creature are you?”
    The fish looked them over thoroughly and said, "Please don’t insult me. My name is Little Black Fish. Tell me your names so that we’ll get acquainted.
    “We call one another tadpole,” replied one of the tadpoles.
    “We come from nobility,” said another.
    “You can’t find anyone prettier than us in the whole world,” said another.
    “We aren’t shapeless and ugly-faced like you,” said another one.
    The fish said, “I never imagined you would be so conceited. That’s all right. I’ll forgive you since you’re speaking out of ignorance.”
    In one voice the tadpoles demanded, “Are you saying we’re stupid?”
    "If you weren’t ignorant," replied the fish, “you’d know that there are many others in the world who are pleased with their appearances. You don’t even have names of your own.”

    The tadpoles became very angry. But since they knew the little fish spoke truthfully, they changed their tone and said, “really, you’re wasting words! We swim around the world every day from morning till evening, but except for ourselves and our father and mother, we see no one. Of course, there are tiny worms, but they don’t count.”
    "You can’t even leave the pond," said the fish. “How can you talk about traveling around the world?”
    "What! Do you think there’s a world other than the pond?" exclaimed the tadpoles.
    “At least,” responded the fish, “you must wonder where this water comes from and what things are outside of it.”
    "Outside the water!" exclaimed the tadpoles, “Where is that? We’re never seen outside of the water! Haha ...haha ...You’re crazy!”

    Little Black Fish also started to laugh. The fish thought it would be better to leave the tadpoles to themselves and go away, but then changed its mind and decided to speak to their mother.

    “Where is your mother?” asked the fish. Suddenly, the deep voice of a frog made the fish jump. The frog was sitting on a rock at the edge of the pond. She jumped into the water, came up to the fish and said:
    “I’m right here. What do you want?”
    "Hello, Great Lady," said the fish.
    The frog responded “Worthless creature, now is not the time to show off. You’ve found some children to listen to you and are talking pretentiously. I’ve lived long enough to know that the world is this pond. Mind your own business and don’t lead my children astray.”
    "If you lived a hundred years," said the little fish, “you’d still be nothing more than an ignorant and helpless frog.”

    The frog got angry and jumped at Little Black Fish. The fish flipped quickly and fled like lightening, stirring up sediment and worms at the bottom of the pond.

    The valley twisted and curved. The stream became deeper and wider. But if you looked down at the valley from the top of the mountains, the stream would seem like a white thread. In one place, a piece of large rock had broken off from the mountain, fallen to the bottom of the valley, and split the water into two branches. A large lizard the size of a hand, lay on her stomach on the rock. She was enjoying the sun’s warmth and watching a large, round crab resting on the sand at the bottom or the water in a shallow place and eating a frog he had snared.

    The little fish suddenly saw the crab, became frightened, and greeted him from afar. The crab glanced sideways at the fish and said,
    “What a polite fish! Come closer, little one. Come on!”
    "I’m off to see the world," said the little fish, “and I never want to be caught by you, sir!”
    "Little fish, why are you so pessimistic and scared?" asked the crab.
    “I’m neither pessimistic nor afraid,” answered the fish. “I speak about everything I see and understand.”
    "Well, then," said the crab, “please tell me what you’ve seen and understood that makes you think I want to capture you?”
    "Don’t try to trick me!" responded the fish.
    “Are you referring to the frog?” queried the crab. “How childish you are! I have a grudge against frogs; that’s the reason I hunt them. Do you know, they think they’re the only creatures in the world and that they’re very lucky. I want to make them understand who is really master in the world! So you don’t have to be afraid, my dear. Come here. Come on.”

    As the crab talked, he was walking backwards towards the little fish. His gait was so funny that the fish couldn’t help laughing and said,
    “Poor thing! You don’t even know how to walk. How did you ever learn who runs the world?”
    The black fish drew back from the crab. A shadow fell upon the water and suddenly a heavy blow pushed the crab into the sand. The lizard laughed so hard at the crab’s expression that she slipped and almost fell into the water. The crab couldn’t get up.

    The little fish saw that a young shepherd was standing at the edge of the water watching the fish and the crab. A flock of sheep and goats came up to the water and thrust their mouths in. The valley filled with the sounds of “meh meh” and “bah bah.”

    The little black fish waited until the sheep and goats had drunk their water and left, then called the lizard,
    “Dear lizard, I’m a little black fish who’s going to search for the end of the stream. I think you’re wise, so, I’d like to ask you something.”
    "Ask anything you want."
    “All along the way, they’ve been frightening me a great deal about the pelican, the swordfish and the heron. Do you know anything about them?”
    "The swordfish and the heron," said the lizard, “aren’t found in this area, especially the swordfish who lives in the sea. But it’s possible that the pelican is farther down. Be careful he doesn’t trick you and catch you in his pouch.”
    "What pouch?"
    “Under his throat,” explained the lizard, “the pelican has a pouch which holds a lot of water. When the pelican’s swimming, fish, without realizing it, sometimes enter his pouch and then go straight into his stomach. But if the pelican isn’t hungry, he stores the fish in his pouch to eat later.”
    "If a fish enters the pouch, is there any way of getting out?" asked the fish.
    “There’s no way unless the fish rips open the pouch,” answered the lizard.
    “I’m going to give you a dagger so that if you get caught by the pelican, you can do just that.”

    Then the lizard crawled into a crack in the rock and returned wit a very sharp dagger. The little fish took the dagger and said:
    “Dear lizard, you are so kind! I don’t know how to thank you.”
    "It’s not necessary to thank me, my dear. I have many of these daggers. When I have nothing to do, I sit down and make daggers from blades of grass and give them to smart fish like you."
    “What?” asked the fish, “Have other fish passed here before me?”
    "Many have passed by," the lizard replied. “They’ve formed themselves into a school and they give the fisherman a hard time.”
    "Excuse me for talking so much," said the black fish, "but if you don’t think me meddlesome, tell me how they give the fisherman a hard time.
    “Well,” answered the lizard, “they stick together. Whenever the fisherman throws his net, they get inside, pull the net with them, and drag it to the bottom of the sea.”

    The lizard placed her ear on the crack, listened and said, “I must excuse myself now. My children have awakened.” The lizard went into the crack in the rock. The black fish had no choice but to set out again. But all the while there were many questions on the fish’s mind. “Is it true that the stream flows to the sea? If only the pelican doesn’t catch me! Is it true the swordfish enjoys killing and eating its own kind? Why is the heron our enemy?”

    The little fish continued swimming and thinking, In every stretch of the way the fish saw and learned new things. How the fish liked turning somersaults, tumbling down waterfalls, and swimming again. The fish felt the warmth of the sun and grew strong. At one place a deer was hastily drinking some water. The little fish greeted her.
    “Pretty deer, why are you in such a hurry?”
    "A hunter is following me," replied the deer. “I’ve been hit by a bullet ... right here!”
    The little fish didn’t see the bullet hole, but from the deer’s limping gait knew she was telling the truth.

    At one place turtles were napping in the sun’s warmth. At another place the boisterous noise of partridges twisted through the valley. The fragrance of mountain grass floated through the air and mixed with the water. In the afternoon the fish reached a spot where the valley widened and the water passed through the center of a grove of trees. There was so much water that the little black fish had a really good time.

    Later on the fish came upon a school of fish. The little fish had not seen any other fish since leaving home. Several tiny fish surrounded Little Black Fish and said:
    “You must be a stranger here!”
    "Yes," responded the black fish, “I’m a stranger. I’ve come from far away.”
    "Where do you want to go?" asked the tiny fish.
    “I’m going to find the end of the stream,” replied the black fish.
    “Which stream?”
    "This very stream we’re swimming in," answered the black fish.
    “We call this a river,” stated the tiny fish.
    The black fish didn’t say anything.

    “Don’t you know that the pelican lives along the way?” inquired one of the tiny fish.
    “Yes, I know,” answered the black fish.
    “Do you know what a big wide pouch the pelican has?” asked another.
    “I know that too,” replied the black fish.
    “In spite of all this, you still want to go?” exclaimed the tiny fish.
    “Yes,” said the black fish, “whatever happens, I must go.”

    Soon a rumor spread among all the fish that a little black fish had come from far away and wanted to find the end or the river. And the fish wasn’t even afraid of the pelican! Several tiny fish were tempted to go with the black fish but didn’t because they were afraid of the grown-ups. Others said, “If there weren’t a pelican, we would come with you. We’re afraid of the pelican’s pouch.”

    A village was on the edge of the river. Village women and girls were washing dishes and clothes in the river. The little fish listened to their chatter for a while and watched the children bathing, then set off. The fish went on and on and on, still farther on, until night fell, then lay down under a rock to sleep. The fish woke in the middle of the night and saw the moon shining into the water and lighting up everything. The little black fish liked the moon very much. On nights when the moon shone into the water, the fish longed to creep out from under the moss and speak with her. But Mother would always wake up, pull the fish under the moss, and make it go to sleep again.

    The little fish looked up at the moon and said
    “Hello, my lovely moon!”
    "Hello, Little Black Fish. What brings you here?"
    “I’m traveling around the world.”
    "The world is very big," said the moon. “You can’t travel everywhere.”
    "That’s okay," said the fish. “I’ll go everywhere I can.”
    "I’d like to stay with you till morning," said the moon, “but a big black cloud is coming toward me to block out my light.”
    "Beautiful moon! I like your light so much. I wish you’d always shine on me."
    “My dear fish, the truth is, I don’t have any light of my own. The sun gives me light and I reflect it to the earth. Tell me, have you heard that humans want to fly up and land on me in a few years?”
    "That’s impossible," exclaimed the fish.
    “It’s a difficult task,” said the moon, “but whatever they want, humans can ...”
    The moon couldn’t finish her sentence. The dark cloud approached and covered her face.

    The night became dark again, and the black fish was alone. The fish looked at the darkness in surprise and amazement for several seconds, then crept under a rock and fell asleep.

    The fish woke up early in the morning and saw overhead several tiny fish chattering. When they saw that the black fish was awake, they said in one voice:
    “Good morning!”
    The black fish recognized them right away and said, “Good morning! You followed me after all!”
    "Yes," answered one of the tiny fish, “but we’re still afraid.”
    "The thought of the pelican just won’t go away," said another.
    “You worry too much,” said the black fish. “One shouldn’t worry all the time. Let’s start out and our fears will vanish completely.”

    But as they were about to set out, they felt the water all around them rise up and a lid was placed over them. It was dark everywhere and there was no way to escape. The black fish immediately realized that they had been caught in the pelican’s pouch.
    “My friends,” said the little black fish, “we’ve been caught in the pelican’s pouch, but there’s a chance to escape.”

    All the tiny fish began to cry. On of them said, “There’s no way to escape! It’s your fault since you influenced us and led us astray.”
    "Now he’s going to swallow us all, and then we’ll die," said another.
    Suddenly the sound of frightening laughter twisted through the water. It was the pelican. He kept on laughing and said, “What tiny fish I’ve caught! Ha. Ha. Truly, my heart bleeds for you. I don’t want to swallow you! Ha, Ha ...”
    The tiny fish began pleading, “Your Excellency, Mr. Pelican! We’ve been hearing about you for a long time. If you’d be so kind as to open your distinguished beak a little so that we might go out, we’ll always be grateful to you.”
    "I don’t want to swallow you right now," said the pelican. “I’ve some fish stored. Look below.”
    Several large and tiny fish were scattered on the bottom of the pouch.
    “Your Excellency, Mr. Pelican!” cried the tiny fish, “we haven’t done anything. We’re innocent. This little black fish led us astray ...”

    “Cowards!” exclaimed the little black fish, “are you crying like this because you think this dishonest bird is merciful?”
    "You don’t know what you’re saying," said the tiny fish. “Just wait and see ... His Excellency, Mr. Pelican, will pardon us and swallow you!”
    "Of course I’ll pardon you," said the pelican. “But on one condition.”
    "Your condition, please, sir!" begged the tiny fish.
    “Strangle that meddlesome fish, and then you’ll get your freedom.”

    The little black fish moved aside and said to the tiny fish,
    “Don’t agree! This deceitful bird wants to turn us against each other. I have a plan ...”
    But the tiny fish were so intent on saving themselves that they couldn’t think of anything else. They advanced towards the little black fish who was sitting near the back of the pouch and talking slowly.
    “Cowards! Whatever happens, you’ve been caught and don’t have a way to escape. And you’re not strong enough to hurt me.”
    "We must strangle you," said the tiny fish.
    “We want freedom!”
    "You’ve lost your senses," said the black fish. “Even if you strangle me, you won’t escape. Don’t fall for his tricks...”
    "You’re talking like this just to save yourself," said the tiny fish. “Otherwise you wouldn’t think of us at all.”
    "Just listen," said the black fish, “and I’ll explain. I’ll pretend I’m dead. Then, we’ll see whether or not the pelican will free you. If you don’t agree to this, I’ll kill all of you with this dagger or rip open the pouch and escape while you ...” "Enough!" interrupted one of the fish. “I can’t stand this talk. Oh, wee ...oh, wee ...oh wee ...”>
    “Why did you ever bring along this crybaby?” demanded the black fish upon seeing him cry. Then the fish took out the dagger and held it in front of the tiny fish. Helpless, they agreed to the little fish’s suggestion. They pretended to be fighting together. The black fish pretended to be dead. The others went forward and said, “Your Excellency, Mr. Pelican, we strangled the meddlesome black fish ...” "Good work!" laughed the pelican. “Now, as a reward, I’m going to swallow all of you alive so that you can have a nice stroll in my stomach!”

    The tiny fish never had a chance. Quick as lightening they passed through the pelican’s throat and were gone. But, at that very instant, the black fish drew the dagger, split open the wall of the pouch with one blow and fled. The pelican cried out in pain and smashed his head on the water but he couldn’t follow after the little fish.

    The black fish went on and on and still farther on until it was noon. The river had passed through the mountains and valleys and now was flowing across a level plain. Several other smaller rivers had joined it from the right and the left, increasing its water greatly. The black fish was enjoying the immensity of the water.

    Soon the fish realized the water had no bottom. The fish swam this way and that way and didn’t touch anywhere. There was so much water that the little fish got lost in it! No matter how far the fish swam, still the water was endless. Suddenly, the fish noticed a large, long creature charging forward like lightening. There was a two-edged sword in front of its mouth. The little fish thought, “The swordfish! He’s going to cut me to pieces this very instant!”

    Quickly the fish jumped out of the way and swam to the surface. After a while the fish went under the water again to look for the bottom. On the way the fish met a school of fish-thousands and thousands of fish.

    “Friend,” said the fish to one of them, “I’m a stranger. I’ve come from far away. Where is this place?”

    The fish called his friends and said, “Look! Another ...” Then replied to the black fish, “Friend, welcome to the sea.”

    Another said, “All rivers and streams flow here, except some which flow into swamps.”
    "You can join our group anytime you wish," said one of the fish.

    The little black fish was happy to have reached the sea and said, “I’d like to travel around first, then I’ll come join your group. I’d like to be with you the next time you pull down the fisherman’s net.”

    “You’ll get your wish soon,” answered one of the fish. “Now go explore. But if you swim to the surface, watch our for the heron who isn’t afraid of anyone these days. She doesn’t stop bothering us till she’s caught four or five fish a day.”

    The black fish then left the group of sea fish and began swimming. A little later the fish came to the surface of the sea. A warm sun was shining. The little black fish enjoyed feeling the sun’s bright rays on its back. Calm and happy, the fish was swimming on the surface of the sea and thinking, “Death could come upon me very easily now. But as long as I’m able to live, I shouldn’t go out to meet death. Of course, if someday I should be forced to face death-as I shall-it doesn’t matter. What does matter is the influence that my life or death will have on the lives of others . . .”

    The little black fish wasn’t able to pursue these thoughts. A heron dived down, swooped up the fish, and carried it off. Caught in the heron’s long beak, the little fish kicked and waved but couldn’t get free. The heron had grabbed the fish’s waist so tightly that its life was ebbing away. After all, how long can a little fish stay alive out of water?

    “If only the heron would swallow me this very instant,” thought the fish, “then the water and moisture inside her stomach would prevent my death at least for a few minutes.”

    The fish addressed the heron with this thought in mind. “Why don’t you swallow me alive? I’m one of those fish whose body becomes full of poison after death.”
    The heron didn’t reply. She thought, “Oh, a tricky one! What are you up to? You want to get me talking so you can escape!”

    Dry land was visible in the distance. It got closer and closer.
    “If we reach dry land,” thought the fish, “all is finished.”
    "I know you want to take me to your children," said the fish, “but by the time we reach land, I’ll be dead, and my body will become a sack full of poison. Why don’t you have pity for your children?”
    "Precaution is also a virtue!" thought the heron. “I can eat you myself and catch another fish for my children. . . but let’s see . . . could this be a trick? No, you can’t do anything.”

    As the heron thought she noticed that the black fish’s body was limp and motionless. “Does this mean you’re dead,” thought the heron. “Now I can’t even eat you! I’ve ruined such a soft and delicate fish for no reason at all!”
    "Hey little one!" she called to the black fish. “Are you still half alive so that I can eat you?”
    But she didn’t finish speaking because the moment she opened her beak, the black fish jumped and fell down.

    The heron realized how badly she’d been tricked and dived after the little black fish. The fish streaked through the air like lightening. The fish had lost its senses from thirst for sea water and thrust its dry mouth into the moist wind of the sea. But as soon as the fish splashed into the water and took a new breath, the heron caught up and this time swallowed the fish so fast that the fish didn’t understand what had happened.

    The fish only sensed that everywhere was wet and dark. There was no way out. The sound of crying could be heard. When the fish’s eyes had become accustomed to the dark, it saw a tiny fish crouched in a corner, crying. He wanted his mother. The black fish approached and said:
    “Little one! . . .Get up! Think about what we should do. What are you crying for? Why do you want your mother?”
    "You there . . .Who are you?" responded the tiny fish. “Can’t you see? ...I’m ...dy...ing. O, me ...oh, my ...oh, oh ...mama ...I ...I can’t come with you to pull the fisherman’s net to the bottom of the sea any more ...oh, oh ...oh, oh!”
    "Enough, there!" said the little fish. “You’ll disgrace all fish.”

    After the tiny fish had controlled his crying, the little fish continued, “I want to kill the heron and find peace of mind to all fish. But first, I must send you outside so that you don’t ruin everything.”

    “You’re dying yourself,” replied the tiny fish. “How can you kill the heron?”
    The little fish showed the dagger. “From right inside here, I’m going to rip open her stomach. Now listen to what I say. I’m going to start tossing back and forth in order to tickle the heron. As soon as she opens her mouth and begins to laugh, you jump out.”
    "Then what about you?" asked the tiny fish.
    “Don’t worry about me. I’m not coming out until I’ve killed this good-for-nothing.”

    The black fish stopped talking and began tossing back and forth and tickling the heron’s stomach. The tiny fish was standing ready at the entrance of the heron’s stomach. As soon as the heron opened her mouth and began to laugh, the tiny fish jumped out and fell into the water. But no matter how long he waited, there wasn’t any sign of the black fish. Suddenly, he saw the heron twist and turn and cry out. Then she began to beat her wings and fell down. She splashed into the water. She beat her wings again, then all movement stopped. But there was no sign of Little Black Fish, and since that time, nothing has been heard.

    The old fish finished her tale and said to her 12,000 children and grandchildren, “Now it’s time to sleep, children. Go to bed.”
    "Grandmother!" exclaimed the children and grand-children, “You didn’t say what happened to that tiny fish.”
    "We’ll leave that for tomorrow night," said the old fish. “Now, it’s time for bed. Goodnight.”
    Eleven thousand, nine hundred and ninety-nine little fish said goodnight and went to sleep. The grandmother fell asleep too. But try as she might, a little red fish couldn’t get to sleep. All night long she thought about the sea .....

    #Iran #littérature #révolution #martyre #héros #contes #enfants

  • Et si les lasers réduisaient la radioactivité à seulement quelques minutes…
    https://www.latribune.fr/entreprises-finance/industrie/energie-environnement/et-si-les-lasers-reduisaient-la-radioactivite-a-seulement-quelques-minutes

    C’est un projet hors-norme, voire un rêve qui apparaît inaccessible. Il demandera beaucoup de temps, de financements et de volonté. Mais il vaut le coup. Le prix Nobel de physique, Gérard Mourou, travaille sur un projet permettant de réduire la radioactivité des déchets nucléaires.

    C’est un projet secret aussi dingue que magnifique, qui pourrait révolutionner la filière nucléaire mondiale. De quoi parle-t-on ? De réduire la radioactivité des déchets nucléaires d’un million d’années à seulement quelques minutes une fois qu’ils aient été bombardés de neutrons par un laser d’une puissance d’au moins 100 térawatts pour fissionner les éléments lourds comme le plutonium. « Le rêve serait de transmuter tous les déchets nucléaires. Il y a une volonté de travailler sur ce sujet, c’est bien l’idée », a confirmé à La Tribune en marge du forum innovation défense Gérard Mourou, qui s’est vu attribuer le 9 décembre prix Nobel de Physique pour ses travaux sur les lasers avec la Canadienne Donna Strickland.
    […]
    « On travaille sur un projet de réduction des déchets qui ont 200.000 ans de durée de vie, alors si on met 30 ans pour y parvenir, ce n’est pas très grave et ce sera toujours utile », fait valoir Benoît Deveaud.
    […]
    Le développement de ce laser, auquel a participé le prix Nobel de physique, a pour ambition de fournir un faisceau laser multi-pétawatt (jusqu’à 10 PW) pour réaliser des expériences en condition extrêmes. Si Apollon est l’un des lasers les plus puissants au monde, sinon le plus puissant actuellement, Gérard Mourou a besoin pour réussir d’un laser ayant une fréquence de répétition beaucoup plus élevé que ce laser (une impulsion toutes les minutes).

    C’est pour cela que le prix Nobel de physique suit les travaux XCAN de Polytechnique, qui sont financés par la direction générale de l’armement (DGA) et menés en coopération avec Thales. Objectif, développer des amplificateurs à fibres, puis de coupler ensemble 100, 200, 300, 1.000 amplificateurs de façon à avoir la puissance qui est beaucoup mieux répartie que dans un seul amplificateur comme celui d’Apollon.

    • C’est formidable ces promesses d’un futur qui abolit les responsabilités d’aujourd’hui. Et il faudra quoi comme énergie pour faire fonctionner le laser, du plutonium ?

      Térawatt = 10 exposant 12 watts
      1,7 TW - Géo : la puissance moyenne électrique consommée au monde en 2001.

    • Le principe est séduisant, le bilan énergétique beaucoup, mais alors beaucoup moins…

      Je prends les chiffres dans un rapport sur le sujet
      La transmutation laser des déchets nucléaires
      https://www.researchgate.net/publication/257116317_La_transmutation_laser_des_dechets_nucleaires_Laser_induced_
      assez ancien (apparemment 2004) et avec une technologie où les lasers produisent des électrons (et non des neutrons) pour bombarder la matière à transmuter.

      (calculs de coin de table…)

      Production française de plutonium déchet de centrales : 11 t/an, je ne m’en occupe pas, il n’y a pas la répartition par isotopes, sachant que certains sont « utiles » : réutilisation comme combustible pour centrale nucléaire ou fabrication de bombes.

      Production de Neptunium 237 : 800 kg/an, demi-vie 2 millions d’années, soit 2.10^27 atomes par an.

      la technologie décrite (la plus performante des deux, d’un ordre de grandeur) consomme 0,5 J par tir de laser, répétable 10 fois par seconde ce qui produit 10 000 transmutations par seconde avec 5 J

      d’où un nombre de secondes nécessaires à traiter la quantité annuelle de Ne237 de 2.10^23 secondes, soit 6.10^15 années de fonctionnement d’un laser (il en faudra beaucoup) et une consommation énergétique de 10^24 joules, soit 282 millions de TWh.

      Le parc nucléaire français a produit 379 TWh en 2017. On a donc besoin de 750 000 ans de fonctionnement du parc nucléaire pour transmuter le Ne237…

      Bon, on en est dans les tout débuts, mais même si on gagne 3 ordres de grandeur en efficacité énergétique (gain énorme), on descend à « seulement » 750 ans. Ça reste très beaucoup. Et ce, sans compter l’énergie nécessaire à la séparation des isotopes à longue période du reste des déchets.

      (sauf grossière erreur de calcul (ou de conversion d’unités) de ma part)

      EDIT : @touti, le temps que je fasse les calculs et, surtout, que je les vérifie ;-)

    • @simplicissimus la #télépathie marche assez bien sur seenthis :) je n’ai même pas eu à te poser la question mais je pensais que tu le ferais si l’idée te prenait !

      et c’est certainement un moyen plus réaliste pour faire baisser notre consommation électrique !

      Les scientifiques continuent de faire mumuse quand la solution est à la portée d’un enfant de cinq ans, à la question que faut-il faire pour arrêter de polluer, il répondra #arrêter.

  • Plasma secrets: save session in Kate

    Here’s a scenario for you. As a Linux person, you happen to be using the Plasma desktop environment, and your text editor of choice is Kate. You have multiple files open, i.e. multiple document tabs, and you want to preserve them for your next session. In the Kate settings, you did find the option that allows you to save the session, which you’ve promptly marked. However, on next app start, you only get a single, blank document.

    https://www.dedoimedo.com/computers/plasma-kate-save-session.html

    #plasma #kate-editor #linux

  • OpenMandriva Has Been Working On Their RISC-V & AArch64 Ports - Phoronix
    https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=OpenMandriva-AArch64-RISC-V

    In addition to working on OpenMandriva Lx 4.0 as this distribution’s next major release with its roots tracing back to the legendary Mandrake, its developers have also been working on clean ports of this Linux distribution to other CPU architectures.

    OpenMandriva has been working on expanding its focus from just Intel x86_64 to a good experience for AMD Ryzen AMD64 and ports to AArch64 and RISC-V too. They are doing since as “other CPU architectures are starting to be fast enough” for desktop/laptop use-cases and “monopolies are harmful.”

    #OpenMandriva #Linux

  • OpenMandriva Council: new Chairman elected and welcome to new entries
    https://www.openmandriva.org/en/news/article/openmandriva-council-new-chairman-elected-and-welcome-to-new-entries

    First of all congratulations to Bernhard Rosenkränzer, aka bero, elected as new OpenMandriva Association Chairman. Bero is one of the most active developers inside OpenMandriva, and also one of the founders of the association. We also welcome two new Council members: Ben Bullard aka ben79 and Denis Silakov. Ben is one of the pillars of OpenMandriva, QA-Team member, he is the strongest link between the community and the development team (aka Cooker) and the most active forum user. (...)

    #News

  • FSF statement on Microsoft joining the Open Invention Network — Free Software Foundation — working together for free software
    https://www.fsf.org/news/fsf-statement-on-microsoft-joining-the-open-invention-network

    Microsoft’s announcements on October 4th and 10th, that it has joined both LOT and the Open Invention Network (OIN), are significant steps in the right direction, potentially providing respite from Microsoft’s well-known extortion of billions of dollars from free software redistributors.

    These steps, though, do not by themselves fully address the problem of computational idea patents, or even Microsoft’s specific infringement claims.

    #patents #Microsoft #OIN #Linux

  • Le dépôt de logiciel maintenant disponible sur Hal et tous les portails - Inria
    https://www.inria.fr/actualite/actualites-inria/hal-s-ouvre-au-logiciel
    /var/inria/storage/images/medias/actualites/generales/images-chapo/sh-hal-chapo/1873553-1-fre-FR/sh-hal-chapo_medium.jpg

    Le projet bénéficie du soutien de l’UNESCO et de nombreux partenaires internationaux comme Microsoft , DANS (institution de l’Académie Royale des Arts et des Sciences néerlandaise), l’université de Bologne, Société Générale , Huawei , Nokia Bell Labs , Intel , rejoints récemment par Google , l’UQAM, GitHub , Qwant , FOSSID .

    Grâce au dépôt du logiciel sur HAL et à son archivage sur SWH, le logiciel devient un produit de recherche légitime et citable, ce qui est indispensable dans la quête pour la reproductibilité des résultats scientifiques.

    • Et à 30 ans... À 30 ans ? Ben, c’est terminé.

      À 30 ans, on disparaît de la littérature, du cinéma, des affiches de publicité, de la peinture, de la sculpture, des profils mis en avant sur les sites de rencontres. [...]

      C’est vrai, mais existe-t-il des moyens concret de combattre cet #âgisme (au niveau de la société, pas juste individuel) ?

      #ségrégation

  • Le Français qui a reçu le prix Nobel de physique 2018 raconte que la découverte pour laquelle il a été récompensé est partie d’un accident - Business Insider France
    http://www.businessinsider.fr/gerard-mourou-nobel-physique-2018-decouverte-par-accident

    Le Français Gérard Mourou a reçu « pour moitié » le prix Nobel de physique 2018, avec la Canadienne Donna Strickland pour ses travaux sur les lasers et l’optique.

    La technique d’amplification des lasers, appelée « Chirped Pulse Amplification », (CPA) que les deux scientifiques ont mis au point il y a un peu plus de 30 ans, a permis de faire de nombreuses avancées dans le domaine de la chirurgie réfractive de l’œil et de la cataracte.

    [...]

    L’un des autres domaines d’application du laser concerne les déchets nucléaires, selon le physicien français âgé de 74 ans. Ce dernier travaille actuellement avec le CEA pour pouvoir réduire la durée de vie des déchets nucléaires « d’un million d’années à 30 minutes », à l’aide d’un laser à grand flux.

    Gérard Mourou estime qu’on parviendra à quelque chose « d’ici 10 ou 15 ans ».

    #prix_nobel #physique #chirurgie_laser #nucléaire #déchets_nucléaires

  • The Atmosphere: Wallpaper Contest
    https://www.openmandriva.org/en/news/article/the-atmosphere-wallpaper-contest

    While OpenMandriva Lx 4.0 is in the Cooker, we need the help of our fellow community for the wallpapers-extra contest. Wallpapers-extra is a collection of 10 non-default wallpapers contributed by the users. The theme for this competition is “The Atmosphere”, so try to stick to the theme. “Nitrogen” (the actual chemical element from the periodic table), is an available subject as well, since it is the OpenMandriva Lx 4.0 codename. Of course there are some rules: All submissions should be (...)

    #News

    «https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Periodic_table»
    «https://gallery.openmandriva.org/index.php?/category/24»

  • La typographie du livre français | Polylogue
    http://polylogue.org/la-typographie-du-livre-francais

    par Nicolas Taffin.

    Vive le temps long que permet le livre...

    Avec quelques années de retard, puisque cet ouvrage a 10 ans… (mais c’est une qualité du livre de permettre ce temps long, et j’ai l’excuse de l’avoir découvert tardivement, l’an passé) je voulais laisser ici un compte rendu de lecture de l’ouvrage La typographie du Livre Français réalisé par un groupe d’enseignants et étudiants de la filière « Métiers du livre » de l’IUT Michel de Montaigne à Bordeaux, sous la direction d’Olivier Bessard-Banquy et Christophe Kechroud-Gibassier, et publié aux Presses universitaires de Bordeaux en… 2008. Mieux vaut tard que jamais ?

    Ce petit livre assez élégant et très dense constitue une excellente introduction à la typographie, son histoire et sa pratique contemporaine et présente une très bonne base de réflexion, le tout dans un esprit que les Rencontres de Lure ne démentiraient pas, teinté d’exigence, d’un brin de nostalgie, mais de beaucoup d’énergie créative aussi. Il permet notamment de recueillir la parole de Jean François Porchez, Massin, Gérard Berréby, Franck Jalleau et Philippe Millot — quasiment tous venus à Lure d’ailleurs. Il est divisé en deux parties, précédées par une introduction sur l’évolution graphique du livre et une histoire-musée-imaginaire de la typo.

    #Edition #Typographie

    • Hello,

      Je ne suis pas @spip ni @seenthis mais on peut parler ?

      Concernant #seenthis, c’est probablement une bonne piste.

      Concernant #spip, l’idée de gérer de l’argent dans le cadre du projet n’est pas à l’ordre du jour. Ce projet est une sorte d’OVNI hébergé par les personnes qui y mettent les moyens. Pas toujours simple mais ça marche depuis 17 ou 18 ans... Pour comprendre ça, le texte introductif le plus clair est celui de la charte de la zone SPIP... https://zone.spip.net/trac/spip-zone/wiki/CharteDeFonctionnement

      Respect des buts et valeurs du projet SPIP

      Rappelons que SPIP est un logiciel libre, et chaque personne qui l’utilise peut en faire ce qu’elle veut ; toutefois la participation à la SPIP Zone doit être faite dans le cadre des buts et valeurs promus par le projet initial du ​minirézo, et notamment :

      promouvoir et défendre la liberté d’expression de tous sur Internet
      une défiance vis-à-vis de l’argent
      le respect de l’identité de chacun

      Cela implique, entre autres, un effort pour internationaliser ses contributions, veiller à ce que le langage et le fonctionnement choisis soient non-sexistes, une priorité accordée aux besoins associatifs sur les besoins marchands, etc.

      Ce site n’est pas une plateforme de développement pour des versions militaires ou business-oriented de SPIP qui viendraient en changer la nature. Il n’a pas non plus vocation à servir de support de communication ou de publicité pour consultants. Si vous pensez que votre activité professionnelle peut entrer en conflit avec ces exigences, on peut en parler et trouver des solutions (l’usage d’un pseudo par exemple).

      Sinon il y a eu de nombreuses discussions sur les listes aussi. Cela changera-t-il un jour ? Pourquoi et pourquoi pas sont 2 bonnes questions. Pour quoi et pour quoi je pas, de même. Ça peut faire de chouettes trolls aussi, de qualité :-)

    • Comme je le disais à James hier :

      En fait association, fondation, liberapay ou autre, ce n’est pas tant le comment, le statut, la manière dont on récupérerait de l’argent, qui est le problème… mais les questions que ça entraine : qui gère cet argent, à qui on le donne, etc.

      Et donc pour le moment ça s’est toujours fait au fil de l’eau suivant tel ou tel besoin précis (tel serveur, telle rencontre), pas toujours par les mêmes, sans centralisation d’une somme officielle à gérer. Mais je suis conscient que ça pose aussi des problèmes. Bref, ya pas de réponse simple. :)

      Et ce n’est pas forcément une mauvaise idée d’en reparler régulièrement, de le remettre sur la table, même si c’est pour ré-affirmer qu’on ne veut pas de ça.