What are we talking about:
Social and technical infrastructures
- Hackerspaces
- Git repositories
- Chats Irc Forums etc…
- Non profits and Commons networks
- Life necessities thinking that maybe source of funding for a free conception of software can rarefy => Direct association with social centers might become necessary for survival.
What is this software we are talking about, what are the decision processes they refer to.
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Main projects: (Frameworks Languages OS …)
– Central decision processes
– Central repository that is the reference point -
Protocols
– Engaging larger community decision processes embedded in existing capitalist economy
– One source for the protocol, however implementations can superseed the protocol definition and transform its application -
Librairies
– Different scales engaging from the individual to the community and can be reused independently. -
Softwares
– Developped according to local and/or global needs
– Can be redundant
– Different decisional processes often relying on one main developer, bus factor.
Examples
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Wikipedia
– Creates a hierarchy that reproduces existing domination systems. -
Existing hierarchical systems:
– Debian Constitution system D example
– oppositions: Devuan minority difficulties maintenance depending on external sources
– Differences: Ach linux -
Groups of common Interest
– Different existing P2P projects
– Different commons pojects