 Hey, hello everyone. So my name's Puyu. And I'm not your typical lecturer here in FOSDEM because I don't code. I'm not a developer. I was told that using bootstrap doesn't count. So no, I don't code. I do not bash either when someone asks me to sudo IPT get install something. I want to crawl into a little hole and cry myself to sleep. Actually, I'm a writer. I've come to the FOSD community writing novels and putting them under CC0 public domain license. And that is why in France, for example, I belong in Framersoft. So let me introduce you to Framersoft. It's mostly a bunch of friends, but it's not just that. Framersoft is a non-profit, a French non-profit, whose people are not mainly developers. Lots of them are non-developers. I can call them digital muggles. We're not from the developing world. And our goal is to promote open source, freely open source software and culture through practical projects so that we can be the missing link between the developers community and Mr. and Mrs. Everyone, the muggles, as we are. So Framersoft has been existing for 15 years now. We have more than 1.5 million visits per month in all of our sites. More than 2,000 supporters. We live from donations, actually. So 2,000 people will give us money to do our projects. And we propose nowadays more than 50 practical projects. It's really a huge thing. We are small non-profit, 30 members, six employees. It's really small. But it's really huge in what we do. We started with a Floss directory. We have USB keys, but also a blog, a publishing house. My novels are published by Framersoft. That's how I came in. And we also present web services. And I really like this sentence because we don't code, we facilitate. Of course, we cut some little things, you know it. But we facilitate for people to use really, really easily free, open-source software services and culture. And for 2 and 1 half years now, our last project has been to de-Googleify internet because we're very modest. So let's de-Googleify it. Not just Google, actually. All big data, Google, Apple, Facebook, Amazon, Microsoft, Gaffam, we call them. And how to do it? I want to share that with you now because our goal is that, well, you try and you copy us and you adapt it and let's network together to de-Googleize the internet together. We have tried in the French-speaking community. It works. Spoiler alert. So we do it with fact, with Floss, and with fairy friends. First, when you have Mr. or Mrs. Everyone in front of you, you have to give them facts. You know those facts. So Tristan talked about them this morning. So I'm going to skin through them. Financial facts. In 2016, Apple, Alphabet, Google, Microsoft, Amazon, and Facebook has been the five most important economic powers in the world. It's no longer big oil. It's no longer big data, big pharma, I'm sorry. It's not Monsanto or General Motors. It's big data. It's the people we give our data to who are the richest and the most powerful financially in the world. And that must ring a bell to Mr. and Mrs. Everyone. Of course, there are political facts. Well, Edward Snowden's revelations has been a huge shock not to us. It was like our most paranoid nightmare coming through. True, I'm sorry. But well, this political mass surveillance that is enabled by the centralization of our data, by those silos of data. Well, Edward Snowden underlined them, and Chelsea Manning, and all those people, those whistleblower. It's a really important work. And when you say to people, well, what do you think about your state surveying you? Among others, well, what do you think about that? Sometimes it rings a bell. So it's really a good fact to state. There are also personal facts to use. It is that when you know that you can be washed upon, and when you don't know when you are washed upon, well, your behavior will change. In philosophy, this is called the Panopticon theory. The Panopticon can be a prison like here in Uruguay, I guess. It's Cuba. Cuba, thank you. Thank you, Tristan. So it's in Cuba. The Panopticon, all the inmates can be washed, but they never know when the warden will wash them. So they will have a warden inside their head. Their behavior will change automatically. It's not about your will and the strength of your will. It's about your subconscious. So it doesn't care about your will. And this is something that really hits people's mind when you tell them about it. And finally, there is also a cultural fact. I really love this image. It says that when you have a notification on Facebook, Twitter, I don't care, well, it's like a slot machine. How many likes did I get this time? Yes, yes. Oh, no, just three. And it's really like that. It's designed by purpose like that. There is a wonderful blog post that I urge you to read by Tristan Harris called How Technology Hijacks People's Mind. He's a former design ethicist at Google's, and he went away rightfully. And he tells us how technology is made to change our behavior and to decide of the time that we have in our lives. OK, so when you state all those facts to Mr. and Mrs. Everyone, to the white-red audience, usually they're lost. They're lost and telling you, OK, OK, right, right. I agree with you. But what the fuck do I do? Where do I go? There is only Google. Just Facebook. I cannot change. And it is our duty to present alternative, easy, and ready to use alternative. That is what we've done for two and a half years with the D-Googleify Internet Project at Framersoft. We have proposed more than 30 services, all of them based, of course, on Freddie Mandum, open source software. We have edited really easy to read user-friendly terms and services. Our TLGR version of our terms and services is legally binding. And it's really easy to read with sentences that everyone will tell you, well, don't take us for kittens, don't cheat with us. And things like that, or nothing is eternal, we can stop at any time as any company or nonprofit. Sometimes it can stop. It can die. Of course, we provide self-hosting documentation because the point is to have a proof of concept. You come, you try at our services, and then please install them on your servers. And of course, we provide user documentation, how to do this or that. And of course, support when user documentation is not enough, and support is really an important thing to do. And sometimes, we also work on the user experience or ergonomy, of course, on translations because not every freely software is available in French. Well, so, well, let's do it. We can. And so I'm going to skim through a few alternatives. We have more than 30 services. So just a few so that you can understand. We propose Google Doc alternatives based on Isopad. Well, we have lots of Isopads, actually. But Isopad didn't meet our expectation on one point. You couldn't have an account to have a folder so you can have your pads and choose which part is public or confidential or private. So, well, we needed a plug-in. Well, we had a crowdfunding. We hired a developer. And we paid him to do that. And it's called Mypad. It's, of course, available for all the Isopad community. We have more than 42,000 pads. I love 42, in Mypad's instance. And we are actually, we think, the largest Isopad provider in France, for sure, maybe in whole Europe. We have to check, but maybe. We have also a doodle alternative based upon the software that is called Framadate because it's one of the few software. We are the lead developers on it. And it's really, really huge in France. More than 2,000 dates, you know, it doodles are created daily in France. So it's really, really huge. It's our most used service. And it's quite about, I'm not an admin, but you can ask our citizen in here, hello, look. It's quite easy to host, actually. It's not really demanding. Oh, perfect. And it's our most used service. We also have both Dropbox and Google Apple Calendar alternative based on Next Cloud, on Cloud Next Cloud. So it's called Framadrive for the Dropbox alternative and Framadgender for the calendar alternative. It's two Next Cloud instances. One is limited for, well, Dropbox type of use with 5,000 accounts, limited to 5,000 accounts and two geeks. And the other is not limited. And it's for the agenda, but you don't have file sharing space. And it's more than 6,700 accounts now. Actually, also the Calendar app on Next Cloud didn't meet all of our expectations so that people can use it and do whatever they want for sharing purposes or publishing purposes. So we had a developer hired once again so that we can bring this calendar app to meet our expectations and the widespread audience expectations. We also have a Skype alternative, I'm sorry, based on GitSimmit, of course. I want to talk about this one because most of our users say it's great, it's easier than Skype. I don't have to download the software. I don't have to create an account. I just go to Framadrive. I choose the name of my room, share the URL. It's done and it works. You just need a good web browser. So please use Firefox. But it's really easy to use and it talks to people and the free leap can be a really serious alternative to private software and services. So yeah, it works, bitches. More than 30 services. It's a quotation, a graphic quotation from a well-known comic in France. So we have more than 30 services. And actually, every month in France, it's hundreds of thousands of people who don't use Google, Apple, Facebook, Amazon, Microsoft services nowadays. So it makes a difference. That's why it's really amazing that just 30 people, six employees, a budget on 2 and 1 half years, Pierre-Yves, the budget was about what? 4,000? 400,000 euros on 2 and 1 half years and hundreds of thousands of people are changing their digital customs and uses. Well, the problem is, can we become the next French free leap Google? Or do we want to? Fuck no. We don't want a centralized forced internet. So we give a proof of concept. The experiment works. Please, please, please, let's spread it. Let's decentralize it. That's why we started, we need fairy friends. I told you about that. We started a collective that is called Chaton. So it doesn't work really great. A collective of hosting services providers who are transparent, open, neutral, and solidarily oriented. It works really better in French, actually. But Chaton is kitten in French. So we think it's really great. We have maybe another try. So kitten actually is networking because when we started doing that, other people already did that. We have ethical and free web services hosters in France who host mails or websites or things like that. People already did it. So well, let's join together. Let's regroup forces. And let's show to people a common face, the collective. So actually, kittens work both as a lab, label, and a network. A label for the widespread audience. When you go and use a kitten service, you know that there will be no advertisement, no advertisement profiling. Of course, always free labor and open source software, both for the service and for the system administration. And of course, data friendly tens and services. We won't use our data. It's not our economic model. There are lots of other values that are stated in our manifesto and commitments upon those values that are stated in our charter about net neutrality, of course, about transparency. You have to be transparent about economy, your economic model, and things like that. But it's a label so that people know, OK, this thing, I know what the core values are. I know what the rules are, and I go with it, or I live. And for the people in the collective and for the companies in the collective, the non-profits in the collective, well, it's also, well, a collective. We are 24 strong now. 20 kittens, wannabe kittens, are waiting for the collective to decide on their welcoming or not. And so by networking, we can share experience together, of course, technical experience, but also legal advice and legal experience, and also lots and lots of things. If you want to ask me how to communicate or how to do support, I can help you. I can't help with system administration, but we have look here. But I can help you with all the things. And of course, we can communicate together, do public relation together. Our goal is that the kitten community is like a free-lib software. We work on a git, our charter manifesto has been written on a git. Welcoming or not the new kitten, it works on a git with issues and things like that. So everything, of course, is free-lib. The charter of the manifesto are under a CC by a sale license so that if you don't like the kitten, well, do the tigers. Please, fork it. It will be perfect. We will love it. But let's talk and communicate together because we have great things to do together. So, well, we need you. We need kittens. We need kittens everywhere. We are starting, well, to try and speak English. That's why I'm here, for example. So, well, if you're interested or doing something not exactly like this, maybe just something like this, a little bit. If you want to just join, well, you're welcome. Kittens are not for French-speaking people only. But let's communicate together because we know that it works. We have good experiences. Of course, everyone's case can be different. But together, I think we can be more strong and propose an alternative to change the internet as we know it, the internet that is Google-tarnet, that is Facebook-tarnet, and that we don't want all of us. So, well, just contact us. You can contact us with our email. Of course, we have several websites. The Chaton website is not translated yet, but franassoff.org and anguglice.org works perfectly. Anguglice, maybe, oh, OK. Anyway, yeah, yeah. Oh, you did the ASA sale. You're perfect. So if you have any questions, I can answer them for a few minutes. But then I will have to leave because my plan is really, really soon. But you have, please, the franassoff team. Can you raise your hands? If you want to talk more, please, you know, look at their faces, and they will be happy to talk with you. And they will be more better at technology things than I. You have six minutes for questions. Perfect. How do we replicate this in developing countries like India, for example? How to replicate things in developing countries? Well, I don't know developing countries. So I will have to talk with you. In a country which has low bandwidth and people really don't have low-speed internet access. Yeah. Well, as I'm telling you, I don't know exactly all those things. But I think there are experiments that we can take lessons upon. For example, for the next year, we will try to help people on the Rhynion Iceland. Can I say Rhynion in English? It works. OK. On the Rhynion Iceland. And they have also a specific geographical and structural things that they have to deal with. So we will accompany them. And then we will, of course, tell the story so that the experiment can be shared. So of course, I can now imagine how to do it. But I'm sure there are solutions that we can find them together. I think there was a project in India resembling this one. No? No. It's not working. It's not working yet. Yet. OK. It's not working yet. There was a plan to take the freedom box and go and install it in a small village and have a mesh network. Well, there was a plan by using, I'm sorry, I have to repeat, using freedom box in small villages in India. It can be, of course, it can be one way. I won't have a crystal ball and try to see it. But I'm sure there are ways. One of them can be that. Yes, of course. Yeah? Are you doing any efforts to help your, I call the customers now, but do you have any? Users. Users that you, do you help them to migrate away from their services to your services by getting the data easy out of the software? Do we help our users to migrate from their services to our services? The underwear. OK. Yeah, because I was telling you, no. Except if it's Google services to our services, yes, we help them. But when people want to leave our services, we party. Especially if it's to leave our services, because they use, I don't know, why you know host, Microsoft Cloud, self-hosting, people or when they want to go, not to from Microsoft, but to another kitten. You know, they are 24 right now. Of course, we help them as best as we can. It depends on every free, liberal software and service. So I can tell you specifically right now or asking about the service. But of course, we help them the best we can because our goal is that you leave us. We do want that. Any other questions? There was one here? I'm sorry, I didn't see you. Do people pay for your services? No, people don't pay for services. Are they not the product then? If it's free, you're the product. Why should I try? Well, if it's free, you're kind of the product. Because here, in Microsoft, you're the product. As you're the product in Wikipedia, for example, or other things like that, it's that, well, you come and some people must make donations so that we can go on and give it free for everyone. So as you can see, 2,000 people give us money a year and hundreds of thousands of people can use it. So we think it's a fair model. But of course, we have donations buttons that are really apparent. And we tell people, and how can you trust us? It's always about trust. And it's exactly the question. I mean, really, it's really important. We have a similar service, but we make people meet us before they host with us so they know we're hosting. That's perfect. That's what we want. We can't do that. But we have a reputation in France. We've been existing for 15 years. So we are strong from this reputation in the free-lib community world, the French speaking world. And we also have edited really clear and easy to route terms and services and a charter so people can really know what our core value are. And every time people are telling us, oh, this, are you sure, or things like that, we respond. We are here, and we discuss with them. But our goal is that people leave us, for example, go to a kitten because the kitten, there is a map. And you can see where is the ethical poster close by to your house. And it's really important that you go to the closest because you can talk with them as exactly as you do. This is the second question. There's amazing things coming from France. And also, from us of Southwood is awesome. Yeah, thank you. But when it's done French first, it never kind of escapes. And maybe it's worth examining this problem from an English perspective because there's amazing things happening in France. People try to translate and try to keep up to date with the French that weren't working a wider circle of languages. So the problem is when the initiative comes from France, it's really hard to keep up and to keep it dated into other languages. To give ownership of people and other languages of the project. Like FFT, and couldn't really accept more people because it was so fixed. And we might have the same problems there. Well, we are trying to do our best to meet this challenge right now. That's our goal right now. Actually, in PharmaSoft, I can talk for the whole French free community. But we are trying to do that right now. And we will love if anyone else from the English speaking community would take the lead about that. And we will just participate and share on whatever we can all our experience and things like that. But we would love that, yeah. Are you doing also work? It's the time's up. Thank you. OK. Well, we will contact. Thank you.