User:Qgil-WMF/Sandbox

Topic: Technology, Tools and Business

Format: Talk

Title: Open Knowledge requires Open Source Software

Public summary:

Software freedom is essential to the success of open knowledge projects such as Wikipedia or OpenStreetMap, and you should care about it too. The openness of your tools conditions the openness, reliability and sustainability of your efforts. Depending on software you can't maintain or modify is expensive for you and for the whole community. Sharing source code is just as important as sharing data sources. Why? Let's look at the principles and some real stories.