On Thursday 22. June 2017 21.31.07 Roland Häder wrote: > > There is an idea circulating in the fediverse about writing a free-libre > open source "youtube" ([s]of course, with an other name which I don't > want to name here to not fuel domain sharks[/s] na, they already took > the .org domain ... :-( ). But it remains only like that, no actual > development took place after that. Mostly because of low human-resources > (hackers willing to write it).
I guess that since I promised to discuss the matter of funding Free Software development, I'll take yet another opportunity to bring it up again. Generally, "hackers" are only willing to write things if sufficiently motivated and, crucially, sustained. Although one can do such things "for the glory", portrayed as a noble thing by various neoliberal "open source" advocates who naturally want people to do stuff for them and their businesses for nothing, people get a bit tired of doing unrewarded "day job"-style work "for the glory" after a while. > If the FSFE could put their resources more into such projets, it would > be more helpful than setting linkings to Youtube, Facebook, Linked-In, > Instagram (FB again) and all of these high-walled coorporate "networks" > (not really a network, compared to GNUSocial/Friendica). Just supporting existing Free Software initiatives would be helpful. I think Paul Sutton had some good ideas about that. > But what now? There is no FLOSS-Youtube (you should not name it that > way) and nobody seem to have enough time to do it? I honestly thought that GNU MediaGoblin (https://mediagoblin.org/) was a sort- of YouTube-like thing for media sharing. But the fact that there is a lack of clarity even amongst people like ourselves indicates that perhaps not enough advocacy is being done for those projects and services, which would certainly be a useful and less expensive first step towards a better world. Paul _______________________________________________ Discussion mailing list Discussion@lists.fsfe.org https://lists.fsfe.org/mailman/listinfo/discussion