@cevado open licensing the binaries was a delivery model I wasn't really aware of until #datomic's announcement. I guess it is slightly better than proprietary closed source licenses and SaaS. An additional guarantee on open-sourcing in case of a bankruptcy would further mitigate risks of using the software. They have an good product, yet I would opt for #FOSS personally, when using in FOSS projects.
Dass jetzt übrigens jeder Verkehrsverbund ein eigenes System für den Verkauf des Deutschlandtickets implementiert zeigt doch auch wie schief das System ist und dass da zwanghaft an einem System gestgehalten wird das Teil des Problems ist. Es sind vermutlich keine gigantischen Kosten, aber jeder € den ein Verkehrsverbund für Werbung für das Ticket oder die Implementierung der Bezahl- und Verkaufsvorgänge investiert wäre besser aufgehoben als Investition in zuverlässigere Busse und Bahnen.
@hanno dezentralität und föderalismus sind gut, sie vermeiden monopole, machtmissbrauch usw. wir sind ja im fediverse, wir wissen das.
aber klar, alles 300x zu entwickeln, ist verschwenderisch auf so vielen ebenen.
ein guter weg wäre m.e., dass die ÖPVs 2-3 #foss plattformen gemeinsam finanzieren und nutzen.
hatte das bei der #CovidWarnApp nicht wenigstens halbwegs gut geklappt?
@hanno das beispiel war bezogen auf gemeinsame #foss entwicklung. dass 300 covid apps dumm wären, sehe ich auch so.
aber warum findest du die idee bezogen auf #öpnv dumm?
I'm pondering setting up community-run instances of Karrot (https://karrot.world) to support Aotearoa political activism and political parties & local gov't campaigns, and a CoinDrop (https://coindrop.to/ - not to be confused with the NZ-based but not-#FOSShttps://coindrop.co.nz) instance to allow people (e.g. buskers) to accept donations easily in the post-coins-in-pockets era... good ideas?
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@team i could not agree more. we have been doing this for years, not (yet) with three mirrors to the obviously more #libre#foss platforms https://codeberg.org and https://sr.ht , but at least by mirroring to https://gitlab.com.
our home base is self hosted, see here for an example how we announce the two repos: https://code.uplex.de/uplex-varnish/slash
FWIW, we decided to not cope with spam ourselves, so we use gitlab for interactions with the community.
Fedora 38 is pretty impressive. Great UI, all the features of this pretty new Thinkpad worked right out of the box. Bluetooth audio was the big surprise for me - it just worked! Screen sharing seems fine… how far we’ve come in general with Linux on the desktop is amazing.
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A common point of friction in opensource is that we promise people greater influence over the software they choose to use, but then maintainers already overworking themselves often fail to take all the input onboard. This often leaves both camps feeling disillusioned.
But moving past this dynamic is challenging.
And onboarding new help takes special skill that rarely pans out.
I don't what to advise (contributing money or skill helps), so something to be aware of?
@lucasgonze@alcinnz Which is another side of the same argument that @alcinnz and I are making. There is an ARMY of UX people dying to help in #FOSS#OSS systems but feel their is just some odd mismatch that no one can figure out. This is why I've given 3 talks on this at FOSSBack, trying to get maintainers to understand how to reach out to UX folk (and for UX folk work better in these environments) Many positive examples, but it feels like there is a lot left to do.
@lucasgonze@alcinnz This is an important insight. I have to assume engineering projects like "reduce tech debt" have a similar challenge. How do OSS projects address this? Are there any good examples of them successfully tackling big picture work? #FOSS#OSS
Have used Pocket for years to save articles and stuff to read later. They want a subscription to access the full history of what I've saved - which isn't a big deal but kind of a bummer. A few days ago I discovered @omnivore! It's free, open source and honestly how much does that rock? Check it out if you like to read stuff later.
Again, @Omnivore is Free Open Source and I just discovered their donate page! Definitely worth a few dollars if you appreciate what they are doing! #Omnivore#Pocket#ReadItLater#FOSS
What's so great about having a job writing open-source software is that your work isn't just for the profit of a single corporation. Instead, many corporations get to profit off your work.
@oblomov@seth heh. I didn't laugh, because you're sort of right. #FOSS sits uncomfortably in a capitalism system. The implication of your post is that it's bad to work for the benefit of other corporations. In the sense that corporations are an inherently negative artefact of capitalism (explanation: https://davelane.nz/megacorps) anything that benefits corporations is undesirable, yes, but otherwise the whole point of #FOSS is that it's about sharing digital abundance not artificial scarcity.