The Problem with Free & Open Source Software – James Thompson – Medium
▻https://medium.com/@plainprogrammer/the-problem-with-free-open-source-software-ea5c4f053ac1
Back in the early 2000’s I got into a discussion about the relative merits and problems with Free and Open Source software. One of the points of discussion was the first freedom identified by Free Software:
The freedom to run the program as you wish, for any purpose
2018 Pass the SALT - Secure And Libre Talks
▻https://2018.pass-the-salt.org
Pass the SALT 2018.
July 2-4, 2018 - Lille, France.
A free Security & Free Software conference.
For setting up bridges between Security communities and Free Software hackers!
PIXLS.US - Faces of Open Source
▻https://pixls.us/articles/faces-of-open-source
Peter really (ahem) throws a light on many amazing luminaries from not only the Free/Open Source Software community, but in some cases the history and roots of all modern computing. He has managed to coordinate portrait sessions with many people that may be unassuming to a layperson, but take a moment to read any of the short bios on the site and the gravity of the contributions from the subjects to modern computing becomes apparent.
Intéressant cette notion de « communauté » des développeurs au travers d’une manière similaire de se comporter.
Everyone that I’ve photographed has been absolutely wonderful. I mean, that’s the first thing about this community: it’s a very gracious community. Everybody was very gracious with their time, and eager to participate. I think people recognize that this is a community they belong to and they really want me to be a part of it, which is really great.
So, I enjoyed my time with everybody. Everybody brought a different, interesting story about things. The UNIX crew from Bell Labs had particularly colorful stories, very interesting sort of historical tidbits about UNIX and Free Software.
Did your working in open source teach you anything beyond computer code in some way? Was there an influence from the people you may have worked around, or the ethos of Free Software in general that stuck with you? Working with this crowd, was there a takeaway for you beyond just the photographic aspects of it?
Absolutely! First of all it’s an incredibly inspiring group of people. This is a group of people that have dedicated, in some cases most of, their lives to the development of software that they give away to the world, and don’t monetize themselves. The work they’re doing is effectively a donation to humanity. That’s incredibly inspiring when you look at how much time goes into these projects and how much time this group of people spends on that. It’s a very humbling thing.
I don’t think it’s an obvious answer that Apple or Google or somebody else would have just come up with this without the open source [contributions]. This stuff is so fundamental, it’s such a basic building block for everything that’s happening now. It may be responsible for the golden age that we’re seeing now. I think it is.
The average teenager they pick up and post a photo to Instagram - they don’t realize that there’s a hundred open source projects at work to make that possible.
Peut-être, mais ce que j’ai trouvé de plus intéressant, c’est qu’il s’est efforcé de mettre des femmes dans sa galerie de portraits. Compte-tenu des spécificités du milieu, chapeau.
à comparer avec ça :
▻https://seenthis.net/messages/637369
Debian - Statement concerning the arrest of Dmitry Bogatov
▻https://www.debian.org/News/2017/20170417
The Debian Project is concerned to hear that one of our members, Dmitry Bogatov, has been arrested by Russian authorities.
Dmitry is a mathematics teacher, and an active Debian contributor. As a Debian Maintainer, he worked in the Debian Haskell group and currently maintains several packages for command line and system tools.
We await further details of the case against him, but hope that he receives fair treatment and due process.
In the meantime, the Debian Project has taken measures to secure its systems by removing Dmitry’s keys in the case that they are compromised.
The Debian Project honours his good work and strong dedication to Debian and Free Software, and we hope he is back as soon as possible to his endeavours.
We send our full support to him and his family.
Arrestation en Russie d’un membre du projet Debian, professeur de math. La communauté a révoqué ses clefs afin d’éviter d’éventuelles compromissions de paquets.
►http://www.seeks-project.info/site
An Open Decentralized Platform for Collaborative Search, Filtering and content Curation
Seeks is Free Software, and distributed under the AGPLv3 license. Through open code and data formats, Seeks allows you to regain control over your selection of results and to build a personnal profile you can share with others. This is your control over curation of any feed of textual and image data. Seeks is decentralized and lets users share through passive collaborative filtering.
►http://www.seeks-project.info/site/wp-content/uploads/2011/06/034_over_small_crop.png
à lire et tester.
#search #search_engine #recherche #p2p #web
Merci de parler de Seeks. J’héberge moi-même une instance de ce moteur de recherche d’un genre nouveau. La base de données de mon serveur contient près de 10000 recherches anonymes qui influencent le classement des résultats et s’affichent sous forme de recherches connexes lorsqu’un utilisateur entre des mots clés approchant des termes contenus dans la base de données.
Tout ceci peut paraître un peu compliqué, mais le mieux est de l’essayer sur ►http://oldkid.selfip.org
La recherche P2P peut constituer un contrepoids aux moteurs qui monopolisent le savoir et prennent de l’influence sur nos analyses.
Pourtant : La guerre est le père de toute chose, et de toute chose cf. ►http://pdos.csail.mit.edu/chord/#funding (Chord constitue la base de Seeks ; ce projet est financé en partie par la DARPA)
Merci pour vos éclaircissements, en fait c’est un collègue qui m’en a parlé, et qui l’a installé sur son home server. J’ai un peu joué avec, c’est amusant, mais je suis loin de comprendre tout le fonctionnement et les potentialités d’un tel « moteur de recherche mandataire, distribué et décentralisé ». La documentation reste encore très technique.
