Debian donation for Peertube development

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Post by edward » Thu, Oct 22, 2020, 5:32 AM UTC

Debian donation for Peertube development
bits.debian.org

Re: Debian donation for Peertube development

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Post by type0 » Thu, Oct 22, 2020, 8:28 AM UTC

Are there other associations similar to Framasoft? In Europe or across the globe.

Re: Debian donation for Peertube development

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Post by yvan » Thu, Oct 22, 2020, 8:55 AM UTC

type0 wrote: post #2

Are there other associations similar to Framasoft? In Europe or across the globe.

Framasoft is a French association.

Re: Debian donation for Peertube development

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Post by kome » Thu, Oct 22, 2020, 9:05 AM UTC

That's SO cool! While everybody is busy wasting their life on a super centralized internet, it's heartwarming to know that there are still ideas, people and money that goes towards interesting, free and perhaps even a bit idealistic projects.

And we are talking about tiny numbers: 10,000 €. But they can go a long way.

Support free software, people!

Re: Debian donation for Peertube development

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Post by mtgx » Thu, Oct 22, 2020, 9:13 AM UTC

Anyone want to take bets that Google would eventually try to deprecate whatever API peertube needs because of some plausibly true "security reason" in the next few years?

Re: Debian donation for Peertube development

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Post by feralimal » Thu, Oct 22, 2020, 9:14 AM UTC

This is so heart warming.

Thanks to Debian and wow - Framasoft (who I'd never heard of) has a page that is so on point!! Amazing.

Someone doing something to stop the book burning (comment deletion in the billions) and censorship at youtube.

I wish there was more of this.

Re: Debian donation for Peertube development

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Post by [deleted] » Thu, Oct 22, 2020, 9:14 AM UTC

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Re: Debian donation for Peertube development

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Post by roenxi » Thu, Oct 22, 2020, 9:20 AM UTC

10,000 euros isn't a lot of money. I'm going to interpret the enthusiastic upvoting of this post as being more about what it implies when steady and serious collectives like the Debian project start signalling that something is important. There needs to be better software infrastructure and it needs to be open source (and, indeed, free).

It is hard not to like Debian. It is wonderful to see that focused, principled, good-for-everyone organisations can still carry on even in 2020. Maybe not everyone believes in freedom but Debian has standards.

Re: Debian donation for Peertube development

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Post by capableweb » Thu, Oct 22, 2020, 9:23 AM UTC

kome wrote: post #4

That's SO cool! While everybody is busy wasting their life on a super centralized internet, it's heartwarming to know that there are still ideas, people and money that goes towards interesting, free and perhaps even a bit idealistic projects. And we are talking about tiny numbers: 10,000 €. But they can go a long way. Support free software, people!

10000€ is not that tiny though. Not only is it about 15% of what PeerTube was trying to raise, it's also about 10 months of full-time salary for a lot of developers around the world, especially where free software is the most important.

Re: Debian donation for Peertube development

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Post by jelv » Thu, Oct 22, 2020, 9:23 AM UTC

type0 wrote: post #2

Are there other associations similar to Framasoft? In Europe or across the globe.

Like Framasoft? Not that I know of. There are local versions in Europe. A lot smaller is https://disroot.org from the Netherlands.

There are floss projects that are growing: - Nextcloud (German) - Mastodon (German) - Element/Matrix (UK and French) - Pixelfed (Canada) - Small Tech (Ireland)