Is this open source just in the context of Europe? Title and sidebar leave this up in the air.

  • tfm@europe.pubMEnglish
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    8 days ago

    Not restricted to European open source. Open source software is not dependent on country lines.

    • evenwichtOPEnglish
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      5 days ago

      Open source software is not dependent on country lines.

      The discussion certainly can be if you define it that way.

      Did you not notice you are on the europe.pub domain? Have a look at the landing page sidebar:

      European hosted decentralized Network Welcome to Europe Pub! 🇪🇺

      A social network dedicated to everything European. From culture and traditions to current events and daily life across our diverse continent. Share your experiences, discuss news, and connect with fellow Europeans and friends of Europe. …

      Otherwise what’s the point in fracturing the topic? There are already 14 general FOSS communities in the decentralised free world (i.e. outside of Cloudflare):

      OpenSource@europe.pub is rediculously redundant if not to bring a European focus.

      • tfm@europe.pubMEnglish
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        5 days ago

        Redundancy isn’t necessarily a bad thing. But you might be right. Would you like to build that community here with an European focus?

        • evenwichtOPEnglish
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          4 days ago

          Some redundancy is useful because some moderators suck. So it’s good to have some moderation diversity. But 15 forums in the decentralised non-Cloudflare part of the fedi is a bit too much redundancy.

          I was thinking about how there is not a single community specifically for the “public money → public code” movement that Italy initiated. The FSFE has a PMPC campaign. Not even the centralised big tech portion of the fedi (LW, sh.itjust.works, programming.dev, etc) has a community for that. And I think the PMPC principle has not spread outside of Europe.

          OTOH, PMPC may be slightly too narrow to get much posting action. It’s disturbing that European govs push closed-source proprietary phone apps with trackers, but because they merely promote an existing program, it escapes PMPC applicability. PMPC only applies when the gov directly writes code. They can buy MS Windows licenses all they want.

          So it might be useful to have a community that’s broadly focused on public (gov) divestment from non-free software. Though that would not be so specific to Europe.

          *@europe.pub communities should be Europe focused. There are way too many general all-purpose instances in the fedi and precious few that have a constitution (in effect), whereby the instance is subject matter focused in some way.