To end the year in style !

Once again this year, we asked David Revoy to illustrate our year-end campaign. And on this last day of 2023, it’s time to give a little nod to this important work!

🩆 VS 😈: Let’s take back some ground from the tech giants!

Thanks to your donations to our not-for-profit, Framasoft is taking action to advance the ethical, user-friendly web. Find a summary of our progress in 2023 on our Support Framasoft page.

âžĄïž Read the series of articles from this campaign (Nov. – Dec. 2023)

Dessin de l'ensemble des mascottes de Framasoft dans leurs positions d'attaque.
Cliquez sur l’image pour soutenir l’ensemble des mascottes de Framasoft – Illustration CC-By David Revoy

An animated donation bar

Did you notice? The monsters started the campaign very serenely, enjoying grilled data skewers. But as you donated more and more, they became more than a little concerned…

Our cheerful mascots face off against some rather repulsive Datavöres

Each Framasoft mascot, representing one of our projects, stood up to a monstrous, unattractive GAFAM. But did you notice that our mascots were showing signs of life?

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A little souvenir to download

After 7 weeks of presenting our projects to you via our mascots, we’d like to present them as wallpaper, available in three formats: HD landscape, 4K landscape, and portrait (mobile).

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Once again, we’d like to extend our warmest thanks to David Revoy, who has been working with us since 2017 to illustrate our work and hopes with talent, heart and intelligence.

Find, under a CC-By free license, all the works Framasoft has commissioned from David on the site of his free webcomic Pepper & Carrot!

 

Thank you for contributing to our success!

Speaking of success, last night, we’ve reached our fundraising goal to meet our 2024 budget!

We’d like to take this last day of our review to thank all those who have worked, discussed, shared, supported, encouraged, criticized… and contributed to our actions. The Internet isn’t big enough to mention all of you at least as much as you deserve, but you know who you are and from the depths of our little hearts we modestly say: thank you.

Capture d'Ă©cran de la barre de dons Framasoft 2023 Ă  100% - 200 000 €
Thanks ! – Clock to visit the « Support Framasoft » website

 

Thanks to you, we’ll have the means to continue our work over the coming year (well, if some of you want to give us a bit more means, we won’t say no… but that’s not the point!). Above all, thanks to you, we feel supported.

 

We hope you have a wonderful end to the year, and we send you ou best wishes of emancipation, joy and freedom in 2024,

The members of the Framasoft association




Pour finir l’annĂ©e en toute beautĂ© !

Cette annĂ©e encore, nous avons fait appel Ă  David Revoy pour illustrer notre campagne de fin d’annĂ©e. Et en ce dernier jour de 2023, c’est le moment de faire un petit clin d’Ɠil Ă  cet important travail !

🩆 VS 😈 : Reprenons du terrain aux gĂ©ants du web !

GrĂące Ă  vos dons (dĂ©fiscalisables Ă  66 %), l’association Framasoft agit pour faire avancer le web Ă©thique et convivial. Retrouvez un rĂ©sumĂ© de nos avancĂ©es en 2023 sur le site Soutenir Framasoft.

âžĄïž Lire la sĂ©rie d’articles de cette campagne (nov. – dĂ©c. 2023)

 

Dessin de l'ensemble des mascottes de Framasoft dans leurs positions d'attaque.
Cliquez sur l’image pour soutenir l’ensemble des mascottes de Framasoft – Illustration CC-By David Revoy

Une barre de don animée

L’aviez-vous remarquĂ© ? Les monstres ont commencĂ© trĂšs sereinement la campagne en dĂ©gustant des brochettes de donnĂ©es grillĂ©es. Mais, au fur et Ă  mesure de vos dons, ils se sont plus qu’inquiĂ©tĂ©s de la situation…

Nos joyeuses mascottes face à des Datavöres plutÎt repoussants

Chaque mascotte de Framasoft, reprĂ©sentant un de nos projets, a pris tĂȘte face Ă  un monstrueux GAFAM peu attirant. Mais avez-vous remarquĂ© que nos mascottes montraient signes de vie ?

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Un petit souvenir à télécharger

AprĂšs 7 semaines Ă  vous prĂ©senter nos projets via nos mascottes, nous vous proposons de les retrouver sous forme de fonds d’Ă©cran, disponibles en trois formats : paysage HD, paysage 4K, et portrait (mobile).

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Une fois encore, nous tenons à remercier chaleureusement David Revoy, qui travaille avec nous depuis 2017 pour illustrer avec talent, cƓur et intelligence notre travail et nos espoirs.

Retrouvez, sous licence libre CC-By, l’ensemble des Ɠuvres que Framasoft a commandĂ©es Ă  David sur le site de son webcomic libre Pepper & Carrot !

Merci de contribuer Ă  ce succĂšs !

En parlant de succĂšs, hier soir, nous avons atteint l’objectif de rĂ©colte de cette campagne qui nous permettra de boucler le budget 2024 !

Nous profitons de ce dernier jour de bilan pour remercier toutes les personnes qui ont travaillĂ©, discutĂ©, partagĂ©, soutenu, encouragĂ©, critiquĂ©… et contribuĂ© Ă  nos actions. Internet n’est pas assez grand pour vous citer toustes au moins autant que vous le mĂ©ritez, mais vous savez qui vous ĂȘtes et du plus profond de nos petits cƓurs on vous dit pudiquement : merci.

Capture d'Ă©cran de la barre de dons Framasoft 2023 Ă  100% - 200 000 €
Merci ! – Cliquez aller voir le site « Soutenir Framasoft »

GrĂące Ă  vous, nous aurons les moyens de poursuivre notre travail l’annĂ©e Ă  venir (bon alors si certain·es d’entre vous veulent nous attribuer un peu plus de moyens, on ne dit pas non, hein… mais lĂ  n’est pas le propos !). Et surtout, grĂące Ă  vous, nous nous sentons soutenues.

 

Nous espĂ©rons que vous vivrez une trĂšs belle fin d’annĂ©e, et nous vous souhaitons tous nos vƓux d’Ă©mancipation, de joie et de libertĂ©s pour 2024,

Les membres de l’association Framasoft




Framasoft in cifre, edizione 2023

Qual Ăš l’impatto concreto delle azioni della nostra associazione? È questa la domanda a cui ci piace rispondere alla fine dell’anno (vedi dati 2022): prendersi il tempo per quantificare le nostre azioni Ăš essenziale per rendersi conto del servizio che possiamo fornire agli altri. Iniziamo con le Framastatistiche 2023!

🩆 VS 😈 : Riprendiamo terreno ai giganti del web!

Grazie alle vostre donazioni (66% deducibili dalle tasse), l’associazione Framasoft lavora per far progredire il web etico e conviviale. Una sintesi dei nostri progressi nel 2023 Ăš disponibile sul sito web Support Framasoft..

âžĄïž Leggete la serie di articoli di questa campagna (novembre-dicembre 2023).

 

Illustration de Hydroffice, un monstre serpentin Ă  cinq tĂȘtes avec des crocs, ornĂ©es des logos des outils de la Google Suite
Clicca per sostenerci e contribuire a respingere Hydrooffice – Illustrazione CC-By David Revoy

Grazie a Nilocram per la traduzione!

Per quanto riguarda i nostri servizi online…

PiĂč di 1,8 milioni di persone visitano i nostri siti web ogni mese: Ăš il doppio delle visite che Disneyland Paris riceve ogni mese! Questa cifra Ăš aumentata del 16% rispetto all’anno scorso, quindi Ăš pazzesco (e molto motivante) pensare che ciĂČ che facciamo sia utile a cosĂŹ tante persone. E cosa significa questo, per ogni singolo servizio?

Dessin d'un piaf sur la tĂȘte d'un Ă©lĂ©phant, tous deux en position de kung fu.
Clicca per sostenerci e aiutare EspĂ©hef e AhĂšmvĂ© – Illustrazione CC-By David Revoy

Framadate

Framadate consente di creare dei mini-sondaggi, in particolare per trovare la fascia oraria giusta per gli appuntamenti. E in cifre, Framadate significa:

  • 33.785.780 visite nel 2023
  • 1,2 milioni di sondaggi ospitati nel 2023
  • 80.000 sondaggi creati in piĂč rispetto al 2022

Grafico che mostra il numero di visite a Framadate

Framapad

Framapad consente a piĂč persone di scrivere sullo stesso documento. Framapad Ăš senza dubbio uno dei piĂč grandi servizi Etherpad al mondo, con:

  • 510.900 pad ospitati attualmente
  • Diversi milioni di pad ospitati dal lancio del servizio
  • 309.000 account su MyPads (+ 60.000 rispetto al 2022)
  • Oltre 5 milioni di visite nel 2023

Grafico che mostra la distribuzione dei pad in base alle nostre istanze Framapad (pad annuali, bimestrali, settimanali, semestrali, mensili e account Mypads)

 

Framalistes e Framagroupes

Framalistes e Framagroupes consentono di creare liste di discussione via e-mail. PoichĂ© il server di Framalistes ha raggiunto la sua capacitĂ  massima, nel giugno 2023 abbiamo aperto Framagroupes per continuare a offrire questo servizio, che riteniamo indispensabile. Framalistes e Framagroupes sono senza dubbio i piĂč grandi server di liste di discussione (esclusi i giganti del Web) esistenti, con:

  • PiĂč di 1,1 milioni di utenti
  • 63.900 liste aperte
  • Circa 280.000 e-mail inviate in media ogni giorno lavorativo

Framaforms

Framaforms semplifica la creazione di questionari online. Framaforms in cifre:

  • 867.000 visite al mese
  • 418.628 moduli attualmente ospitati
  • 172.289 moduli creati quest’anno

Grafico che mostra il numero di visite a Framaforms (in aumento!)

Framacalc

Framacalc consente di creare fogli di calcolo collaborativi. È forse il piĂč grande istanza Ethercalc del mondo, con:

  • 4.235.879 visite nel 2023
  • 218.000 calcoli ospitati

Grafico che mostra il numero di visite a Framacalc

Framateam

Framateam Ăš un servizio di chat che consente di organizzare dei team suddivisi per canale. È probabilmente una delle piĂč grandi istanze pubbliche di Mattermost al mondo, con:

  • 148.870 utenti del servizio (di cui 5.582 si collegano ogni giorno)
  • 29.665 team
  • 168.102 canali di discussione
  • PiĂč di 43 milioni di messaggi scambiati dal lancio del servizio

Grafico che mostra la distribuzione dei messaggi inviati a Framateam nell’arco di un mese (notare l’utilizzo molto elevato durante la settimana!)

Framagit

Framagit Ăš una fucina di software dove gli sviluppatori possono pubblicare il proprio codice e contribuire a quello degli altri. Framagit Ăš probabilmente uno dei piĂč grandi server Gitlab pubblici in Francia, con:

  • 70 679 progetti ospitati
  • 49 642 utenti
  • 8 966 fork
  • 149 789 issues
  • 91 623 Merge requests
  • 1 764 909 note

Screenshot della home page di Framagit

Framacarte

Framacarte consente di creare mappe online. E in cifre, Ăš:

  • 2 770 510 visite nel 2023
  • 6 690 utenti (+ 1 246 in un anno)
  • 170 845 mappe ospitate (+ 33.476 in un anno)

Grafico del numero di visite a Framacarte

Framatalk

Framatalk consente di creare o di unirsi a una sala di videoconferenza. E in cifre, questo Ăš:

  • 656 765 visite nel 2023 (+ 45 % rispetto all’anno scorso)
  • Una media di 75 conferenze attive per 200 partecipanti per giorno lavorativo

Grafico che mostra l’evoluzione delle visite a Framatalk (si noti l’enorme picco durante l’anno di confinamento!)

Framindmap

Framindmap consente di creare mappe mentali. In cifre, Framindmap Ăš:

  • 295 379 visite nel 2023
  • 1,13  milioni di mappe mentali ospitate
  • 489 690 utenti

Grafico che mostra il numero di visite a Framindmap

 

Framavox

Framavox consente a un gruppo di persone di incontrarsi, discutere e prendere decisioni in un unico luogo. Framavox Ăš probabilmente una delle piĂč grandi istanze esistenti dell’eccellente software Loomio, con:

  • 119 633 utenti
  • 124 566 visite nel 2023
  • 12 265 comunitĂ 

Framavox – Illustrazione di David Revoy

Framagenda

Framagenda consente di creare calendari online. In cifre, si tratta di:

  • 260 000 calendari
  • 122 919 utenti

Framaspace

Framaspace Ăš un ambiente di lavoro collaborativo per piccole associazioni e gruppi. In cifre, si tratta di:

  • 850 associazioni e piccoli gruppi non organizzati da Google
  • 750 nuovi spazi aperti entro il 2023
  • 16 server (dedicati e macchine virtuali) per 640 TB di spazio su disco
  • PiĂč di 800.000 file ospitati su Framaspace

Une licorne dĂ©guisĂ©e en cosmonaute (avec une passoire sur la tĂȘte) marche sur les nuages et souffle des bulles. Dans ces bulles, on retrouve des cubes symbolisant le travail en commun (dossiers, boite Ă  outils, livres, machine Ă  Ă©crire, boulier, etc.).
Framaspace – Illustrazione di David Revoy

PeerTube

PeerTube Ăš un’alternativa alle piattaforme video. E in cifre Ăš:

  • 300 000 utenti
  • 893 000 video
  • 1 151 istanze pubbliche
  • 287 000 commenti ai video
  • 231 milioni di visualizzazioni (una visualizzazione viene conteggiata a partire da 30 secondi)
  • 434 To di file
  • 413 issues risolti nel 2023 (su un totale di 4.360 issues trattate)
  • 363 591 visite a JoinPeerTube.org
  • 2 sviluppatori stipendiati (il secondo si Ăš unito al team a settembre!)

Statistiche di PeerTube per gli ultimi 3 mesi del 2023: istanze, utenti, commenti, video, visualizzazioni e peso dei video

Mobilizon

Mobilizon Ăš la nostra alternativa ai gruppi e agli eventi di Facebook. In cifre, Ăš:

  • 313 554 eventi
  • 29 789 utenti
  • 86 istanze
  • 3 438 gruppi
  • 1 sviluppatore (nemmeno a tempo pieno!)

Mobilizon – Illustrazione di David Revoy

Framadrive

Framadrive, il servizio di archiviazione di documenti, non Ăš piĂč aperto alle iscrizioni, ma funziona ancora! In cifre, si tratta di:

  • 10,8 milioni di file
  • 4 794 utenti
  • 2,6 TB di spazio su disco utilizzato

Framapiaf

Framapiaf, un’istanza del software di micro-blogging Mastodon, non Ăš piĂč aperta a nuove registrazioni ma rimane molto attiva. In cifre, si tratta di:

  • 1 500 utenti che si sono collegati negli ultimi 30 giorni
  • 850 utenti che hanno postato almeno un messaggio negli ultimi 30 giorni

Dorlotons DĂ©googlisons – Illustrazione di David Revoy

Infrastruttura tecnica

Per quanto ne sappiamo, Framasoft Ăš il piĂč grande fornitore associativo di servizi online al mondo. E a priori, questo modello di funzionamento associativo non esiste da nessun’altra parte! In cifre:

  • 58 server e 60 macchine virtuali che ospitano i nostri servizi online
  • 0,6 tonnellate di CO2 equivalenti per il consumo annuale di elettricitĂ  della nostra infrastruttura tecnica (il nostro host, Hetzner, utilizza energia idroelettrica ed eolica rinnovabile)
  • 1 amministratore di sistema a tempo pieno e 2 addetti al supporto tecnico
  • 1 persona di supporto a tempo pieno

Partecipo a finanziare i (Frama-)servizi

 

L’associazione e i comuni culturali

I servizi online che forniamo al pubblico non sono le uniche cose che ci tengono occupati. Ecco qualche dato su alcune delle altre attivitĂ  che abbiamo svolto quest’anno.

Dessin dans le style d'un jeu vidĂ©o de combat, oĂč s'affronte l'Ă©lĂ©phant et le piaf de DĂ©googlisonse et le monstre de Google Suite.
È grazie alle vostre donazioni che Espéhef e AhÚmvé sono in grado di tenere testa a Hydrooffice! Illustrazione di David Revoy

AttivitĂ  interna

  • Framasoft conta 28 membri volontari e 11 dipendenti.
  • 45 presentazioni nel 2023, in presenza e/o online, sulle tecnologie digitali, i beni culturali comuni e le questioni in gioco.
  • PiĂč di 130 articoli pubblicati sul Framablog nel 2023
  • 2 autori⋅ices accompagnati⋅ dalla nostra casa editrice Des Livres en Communs

I progetti in comune

  • 1 097 voci nell’annuario Framalibre
  • Un corso di formazione e un MOOC creato per chi ospita servizi etici
  • 21 operatori in grado di supportare le associazioni nella loro emancipazione digitale elencati sul sito emancipasso.org
  • 5 visite di studio in 5 Paesi europei per il progetto ECHO Network
  • 8 anni di coordinamento del collettivo CHATONS, che attualmente comprende 91 fornitori di hosting alternativi

Abbiamo bisogno del vostro aiuto!

È grazie alle vostre donazioni che possiamo garantire la totale indipendenza finanziaria dell’associazione: la libertĂ  di sperimentare, di continuare, di fallire, di fermarci, di portare avanti i nostri progetti, dai piĂč seri ai piĂč strampalati, sempre in linea con il nostro progetto associativo di educazione popolare ai temi del digitale e dei beni culturali comuni. E in cifre:

  • Il 93% del nostro bilancio Ăš finanziato dalle donazioni
  • 5 463 donatori finanziano iniziative di cui beneficiano piĂč di 1,8 milioni di persone ogni mese
  • Il70 % del bilancio Ăš destinato al pagamento degli stipendi.

Ripartizione del bilancio di Framasoft

 

Framasoft Ăš un’associazione di interesse generale: tutte le donazioni fatte a noi sono deducibili fino al 66% per i contribuenti francesi. Quindi una donazione di 100 euro vi costerĂ  in realtĂ  solo 34 euro dopo gli sgravi fiscali.

Barre de dons Framasoft le 28 dĂ©cembre 2023, Ă  76% - 151079 €

Se vogliamo raggiungere il nostro budget per il 2024, abbiamo solo 3 giorni per raccogliere 48 000 € : non possiamo farlo senza il vostro aiuto!

 

Fai una donazione

 




Framasoft in figures, 2023 edition

What is the concrete impact of our association’s actions? That’s the question we like to answer at the end of the year: taking the time to quantify our actions is essential if we are to realise the service we can provide to others. Let’s get ready for Framastats 2023!

🩆 VS 😈: Let’s take back some ground from the tech giants!

Thanks to your donations to our not-for-profit, Framasoft is taking action to advance the ethical, user-friendly web. Find a summary of our progress in 2023 on our Support Framasoft page.

âžĄïž Read the series of articles from this campaign (Nov. – Dec. 2023)

Illustration de Hydroffice, un monstre serpentin Ă  cinq tĂȘtes avec des crocs, ornĂ©es des logos des outils de la Google Suite
Click to support us and help push back Hydrooffice – Illustration CC-By David Revoy

 

As for our online services


More than 1.8 million people visit our websites every month: that’s twice as many people as visit Disneyland Paris every month! This figure is up 16% on last year, so it’s pretty crazy (and very motivating) to think that what we do is useful to so many people. And what about service by service?

Dessin d'un piaf sur la tĂȘte d'un Ă©lĂ©phant, tous deux en position de kung fu.
Click here to support us and help EspĂ©hef and AhĂšmvĂ© – Illustration CC-By David Revoy

Framadate

Framadate allows you to create mini-surveys, for example to find the right appointment time. And in figures, Framadate is:

  • 33,785,780 visits in 2023
  • 1.2 million hosted surveys in 2023
  • 80,000 more surveys created than in 2022

Graph showing the number of visits (blue) and page views (orange) to Framadate

Framapad

Framapad allows several people to write on the same document. Framapad is undoubtedly one of the largest Etherpad services in the world, with:

  • 510,900 pads currently hosted
  • Several million pads hosted since the launch of the service
  • 309,000 accounts on MyPads (+ 60,000 compared to 2022)
  • More than 5 million visits in 2023

Graph showing the distribution of pads according to our Framapad instances (annual, bimonthly, weekly, half-yearly, monthly pads and Mypads accounts).

Framalistes and Framagroupes

Framalistes and Framagroupes allow you to create email discussion lists. As the Framalistes server had reached its maximum capacity, we opened Framagroupes in June 2023 to continue offering this service, which we consider essential. Framalistes and Framagroupes are undoubtedly the largest discussion list servers in existence (excluding the web giants), with:

  • more than 1.1 million users
  • 63,900 open lists
  • An average of 280,000 messages sent per working day

Framaforms

Framaforms makes it easy to create online forms. Framaforms in figures:

  • 867,000 visits per month
  • 418,628 forms currently hosted
  • 172.289 forms created this year

Graph showing the evolution of visits (blue) and page views (orange) to Framforms (it’s going up!)

Framacalc

Framacalc allows you to create collaborative spreadsheets. It may also be the largest Ethercalc database in the world, with:

  • 4,235,879 visits in 2023
  • 218,000 hosted spreadsheets

Graph showing the number of visits (blue) and page views (orange) to Framacalc

Framateam

Framateam is a chat service that allows teams to be organised by channel. It is probably one of the largest public Mattermost instances in the world, with:

  • 148,870 users of the service (5,582 of which log on daily)
  • 29,665 teams
  • 168,102 discussion channels
  • More than 43 million messages exchanged since the launch of the service

Graph showing the distribution of messages sent to Framateam over a month (note the very high usage during the week!).

Framagit

Framagit is a software forge where developers can publish their code and contribute to the code of others. Framagit is probably one of the largest public Gitlab servers in France, with:

  • 70,679 hosted projects
  • 49,642 users
  • 8,966 forks
  • 149,789 issues
  • 91,623 merge requests
  • 1,764,909 commit notes

Screenshot of the Framagit homepage

Framacarte

Framacarte allows you to create maps online. And in figures, it’s:

  • 2,770,510 visits in 2023
  • 6,690 users (+ 1,246 in one year)
  • 170,845 hosted maps (+ 33,476 in one year)

Graph showing the number of visits (blue) and page views (orange) to Framacarte

Framatalk

Framatalk allows you to create or join a video conference room. And in numbers, that’s

  • 656,765 visits in 2023 (+45% compared to last year)
  • An average of 75 active conferences with 200 participants per working day

Graph showing the number of visits (blue) and page views (orange) to Framatalk (note the huge spike during the year of lockdowns!)

Framindmap

Framindmap allows you to create mind maps. In numbers, Framindmap is:

  • 295,379 visits in 2023
  • 1.13 million hosted mind maps
  • 489,690 users

Graph showing the number of visits (blue) and page views (orange) to Framindmap

Framavox

Framavox allows a group of people to meet, discuss and make decisions in one place. Framavox is probably one of the largest existing instances of the excellent Loomio software, with:

  • 119,633 users
  • 124.566 visits in 2023
  • 12.265 communities

Framavox – Illustration by David Revoy

Framagenda

Framagenda allows you to create online calendars. In numbers, that’s:

  • 260,000 calendars
  • 122.919 users

Framaspace

Framaspace is a collaborative working environment for small associations and groups. In numbers, that’s:

  • 850 associations and small groups not organised by Google
  • 750 new spaces to be opened by 2023
  • 16 servers (dedicated and virtual machines) providing 640 TB of storage
  • More than 800,000 hosted files

Une licorne dĂ©guisĂ©e en cosmonaute (avec une passoire sur la tĂȘte) marche sur les nuages et souffle des bulles. Dans ces bulles, on retrouve des cubes symbolisant le travail en commun (dossiers, boite Ă  outils, livres, machine Ă  Ă©crire, boulier, etc.).
Framaspace – Illustration by David Revoy

PeerTube

PeerTube is the alternative to video platforms. And in numbers, it’s:

  • 300,000 users
  • 893,000 videos
  • 1,151 public entities
  • 287,000 comments on videos
  • 231 million views (a view is counted from 30 seconds)
  • 434 TB of files
  • 413 issues resolved in 2023 (out of a total of 4,360 issues handled)
  • 363,591 visits to JoinPeerTube.org
  • 2 employees (the 2nd joined the team in September!)

PeerTube statistics for the last 3 months of 2023: instances, users, comments, videos, views and weight of videos

Mobilizon

Mobilizon is our alternative to Facebook Groups and Events. In numbers, it’s:

  • 313,554 events
  • 29,789 users
  • 86 instances
  • 3,438 groups
  • 1 developer (not even full-time!)

Mobilizon – Illustration by David Revoy

Framadrive

Framadrive, the document storage service, is no longer open for registration, but it’s still working! And in numbers, that’s:

  • 10.8 million files
  • 4,794 users
  • 2.6 TB of storage used

Framapiaf

Framapiaf, an installation of the microblogging software Mastodon, is no longer open to new registrations, but remains very active. In figures, there are:

  • 1,500 users who have registered in the last 30 days
  • 850 users who have posted at least one message in the last 30 days

The care given to our online services – Illustration by David Revoy

Technical infrastructure

To the best of our knowledge, Framasoft is the world’s largest web host for online services. And a priori, this associative operating model doesn’t exist anywhere else! In figures:

  • 58 servers and 60 virtual machines hosting our online services
  • 0.6 tonnes of CO2 equivalent for the annual electricity consumption of our technical infrastructure (our host, Hetzner, uses renewable hydro and wind energy)
  • 1 full-time sysadmin and 2 technical support staff
  • 1 full-time support person

Support Framasoft

The association and the cultural commons

The online services we provide to the public are not the only things that keep us busy. Here are some figures on some of the other things we’ve been up to this year.

Dessin dans le style d'un jeu vidĂ©o de combat, oĂč s'affronte l'Ă©lĂ©phant et le piaf de DĂ©googlisonse et le monstre de Google Suite.
It’s thanks to your donations that EspĂ©hef and AhĂšmvĂ© are facing Hydrooffice. Illustration de David Revoy

Internally

  • Framasoft has 28 volunteers and 11 paid employees
  • 45 presentations in 2023, face-to-face and/or online, on digital technology, the cultural commons and related issues
  • over 130 articles published on the Framablog in 2023
  • 2 books published by our publishing house Des Livres en Communs (in French)

Shared projects

  • 1,097 entries in the Framalibre directory
  • A training course and a MOOC created for ethical service providers
  • 21 service providers able to support associations in their digital emancipation, listed on the emancipasso.org website
  • 5 study visits in 5 European countries for the ECHO Network project
  • 8 years of coordinating the CHATONS collective, which currently includes 91 alternative hosting providers

Support Framasoft

We need your help!

It’s thanks to your donations that we can guarantee the total financial independence of the association: the freedom to experiment, to continue, to fail, to stop, to continue our projects, from the most serious to the most mad, always in line with our associative project of popular education on digital issues and the cultural commons. And in figures:

  • 93% of our budget comes from donations
  • 5,463 donors finance initiatives that benefit more than 1.8 million people every month
  • 70% of the budget is spent on salaries

Breakdown of Framasoft’s budget (in order: Human resources, Servers and domains, Operating costs, Interventions, Communication, Project services, Bank charges and tax)

 

Once again this year, we need you, your support, your sharing to help us regain ground on the toxic GAFAM web and multiply the number of ethical digital spaces.

Barre de dons Framasoft le 28 dĂ©cembre 2023, Ă  76% - 151079 €

If we want to balance our budget for 2024, we only have 3 days left to raise €48 000: we can’t do it without your help!

Support Framasoft

 




Framasoft en chiffres, Ă©dition 2023

Quel est l’impact concret des actions de notre association ? C’est la question Ă  laquelle nous aimons rĂ©pondre en fin d’annĂ©e (cf. chiffres 2022) : prendre le temps de chiffrer nos actions est essentiel pour rĂ©aliser le service que l’on peut rendre aux autres. En route pour les Framastats 2023 !

🩆 VS 😈 : Reprenons du terrain aux gĂ©ants du web !

GrĂące Ă  vos dons (dĂ©fiscalisables Ă  66 %), l’association Framasoft agit pour faire avancer le web Ă©thique et convivial. Retrouvez un rĂ©sumĂ© de nos avancĂ©es en 2023 sur le site Soutenir Framasoft.

âžĄïž Lire la sĂ©rie d’articles de cette campagne (nov. – dĂ©c. 2023)

 

Illustration de Hydroffice, un monstre serpentin Ă  cinq tĂȘtes avec des crocs, ornĂ©es des logos des outils de la Google Suite
Cliquez pour nous soutenir et aider Ă  repousser Hydrooffice – Illustration CC-By David Revoy

Du cĂŽtĂ© de nos services en ligne…

Plus de 1,8 million de personnes naviguent sur nos sites internet chaque mois : c’est deux fois plus de visites que n’en reçoit Disneyland Paris par mois ! Ce chiffre a augmentĂ© de 16 % par rapport Ă  l’annĂ©e derniĂšre, c’est assez fou (et trĂšs motivant) d’imaginer que ce que nous faisons est utile Ă  tant de monde. Et service par service, ça donne quoi ?

Dessin d'un piaf sur la tĂȘte d'un Ă©lĂ©phant, tous deux en position de kung fu.
Cliquez pour nous soutenir et aider EspĂ©hef et AhĂšmvĂ© – Illustration CC-By David Revoy

Framadate

Framadate permet de crĂ©er des mini-sondages, notamment pour trouver le bon crĂ©neau de rendez-vous. Et en chiffres, Framadate c’est :

  • 33 785 780 visites en 2023
  • 1,2 million de sondages hĂ©bergĂ©s en 2023
  • 80 000 sondages crĂ©Ă©s de plus par rapport Ă  l’annĂ©e 2022

Graphique prĂ©sentant l’Ă©volution des visites sur Framadate

Framapad

Framapad permet de rĂ©diger Ă  plusieurs sur un mĂȘme document. Framapad est sans doute l’un des plus gros services Etherpad au monde avec :

  • 510 900 pads hĂ©bergĂ©s actuellement
  • Plusieurs millions de pads hĂ©bergĂ©s depuis le lancement du service
  • 309 000 comptes sur MyPads (+ 60 000 par rapport Ă  2022)
  • Plus de 5 millions de visites en 2023

Graphique présentant la répartition des pads selon nos instances Framapad (pads annuels, bimestriels, hebdomadaires, semestriels, mensuels et comptes Mypads)

 

Framalistes et Framagroupes

Framalistes et Framagroupes permettent de créer des listes de discussion par email. Le serveur de Framalistes étant arrivé au maximum de ses capacités, nous avons ouvert Framagroupes en juin 2023, pour continuer à proposer ce service que nous trouvons indispensable. Framalistes et Framagroupes sont certainement les plus gros serveurs de listes de discussion (hors géants du Web) qui existent, avec :

  • Plus d’1,1 million d’utilisateurs et utilisatrices
  • 63 900 listes ouvertes
  • Environ 280 000 mails envoyĂ©s en moyenne par jour ouvrĂ©

Framaforms

Framaforms permet de crĂ©er simplement des questionnaires en ligne. Framaforms en chiffres c’est :

  • 867 000 visites par mois
  • 418 628 formulaires actuellement hĂ©bergĂ©s
  • 172 289 formulaires crĂ©Ă©s cette annĂ©e

Graphique prĂ©sentant l’Ă©volution des visites sur Framforms (ça grimpe !)

Framacalc

Framacalc permet de crĂ©er des tableurs collaboratifs. C’est peut-ĂȘtre lĂ  encore la plus grosse base Ethercalc au monde avec :

  • 4 235 879 visites en 2023
  • 218 000 calcs hĂ©bergĂ©s

Graphique prĂ©sentant l’Ă©volution des visites sur Framacalc

Framateam

Framateam est un service de tchat, et permet une organisation d’Ă©quipe par canaux. C’est probablement l’une des plus grosses instances Mattermost publique au monde avec :

  • 148 870 utilisateurs et utilisatrices sur le service (dont 5 582 se connectent tous les jours)
  • 29 665 équipes qui s’organisent
  • 168 102 canaux de discussions
  • Plus de 43 millions de messages Ă©changĂ©s depuis le lancement du service

Graphique présentant la répartition des messages envoyés sur Framateam sur un mois (on remarque une trÚs forte utilisation en semaine !)

Framagit

Framagit est une forge logicielle, oĂč dĂ©veloppeurs et dĂ©veloppeuses peuvent publier leur code et contribuer Ă  celui des autres. Framagit est probablement un des plus gros serveurs Gitlab publics de France avec :

  • 70 679 projets hĂ©bergĂ©s
  • 49 642 utilisateurs et utilisatrices
  • 8 966 forks
  • 149 789 issues
  • 91 623 Merge requests
  • 1 764 909 notes

Capture Ă©cran du tableau d’accueil de Framagit

Framacarte

Framacarte permet de crĂ©er des cartes gĂ©ographiques en ligne. Et en chiffres, c’est :

  • 2 770 510 visites en 2023
  • 6 690 utilisateurs et utilisatrices (+ 1 246 en un an)
  • 170 845 cartes hĂ©bergĂ©es (+ 33 476 en un an)

Graphique prĂ©sentant l’Ă©volution des visites sur Framacarte

Framatalk

Framatalk permet de crĂ©er ou rejoindre un salon de vidĂ©oconfĂ©rence. Et en chiffres, c’est :

  • 656 765 visites en 2023 (+ 45 % par rapport Ă  l’an passĂ©)
  • En moyenne 75 confĂ©rences actives pour 200 participant⋅es par jour ouvrĂ©

Graphique prĂ©sentant l’Ă©volution des visites sur Framatalk (remarquez cet Ă©norme pic pendant l’annĂ©e des confinements !)

Framindmap

Framindmap permet de crĂ©er des cartes mentales. En chiffres, Framindmap c’est :

  • 295 379 visites en 2023
  • 1,13 million de cartes mentales hĂ©bergĂ©es
  • 489 690 utilisateurs et utilisatrices

Graphique prĂ©sentant l’Ă©volution des visites sur Framindmap

 

Framavox

Framavox permet Ă  un collectif de se rĂ©unir, dĂ©battre et prendre des dĂ©cisions, dans un seul endroit. Framavox est probablement une des plus grosses instances existantes de l’excellent logiciel Loomio, avec :

  • 119 633 utilisateurs et utilisatrices
  • 124 566 visites en 2023
  • 12 265 communautĂ©s

Framavox – Illustration de David Revoy

Framagenda

Framagenda permet de crĂ©er des calendriers en ligne. Et en chiffres, c’est :

  • 260 000 calendriers
  • 122 919 utilisateurices

Framaspace

Framaspace est un environnement de travail collaboratif pour les petites associations et collectifs. En chiffres, c’est :

  • 850 associations et petits collectifs qui ne s’organisent pas chez Google
  • 750 nouveaux espaces ouverts en 2023
  • 16 serveurs (dĂ©diĂ©s et machines virtuelles) pour 640 To d’espace disque provisionnĂ©
  • Plus de 800 000 fichiers hĂ©bergĂ©s

Une licorne dĂ©guisĂ©e en cosmonaute (avec une passoire sur la tĂȘte) marche sur les nuages et souffle des bulles. Dans ces bulles, on retrouve des cubes symbolisant le travail en commun (dossiers, boite Ă  outils, livres, machine Ă  Ă©crire, boulier, etc.).
Framaspace – Illustration de David Revoy

PeerTube

PeerTube est une alternative aux plateformes vidĂ©o. Et en chiffres c’est :

  • 300 000 utilisateurs et utilisatrices
  • 893 000 vidĂ©os
  • 1 151 instances publiques
  • 287 000 commentaires sur les vidĂ©os
  • 231 millions de vues (on compte une vue Ă  partir de 30 secondes sur la vidĂ©o)
  • 434 To de fichiers
  • 413 issues rĂ©solues en 2023 (sur 4 360 issues traitĂ©es au total)
  • 363 591 visites sur JoinPeerTube.org
  • 2 dĂ©veloppeurs salariĂ©s (le 2e a rejoint l’Ă©quipe en septembre !)

Statistiques PeerTube des 3 derniers mois de 2023 : instances, utilisateurices, commentaires, vidéos, vues et poids des vidéos

Mobilizon

Mobilizon est l’alternative que nous proposons aux groupes et Ă©vĂ©nements Facebook. En chiffres, c’est :

  • 313 554 évĂ©nements
  • 29 789 utilisateurs et utilisatrices
  • 86 instances
  • 3 438 groupes
  • 1 seul dĂ©veloppeur (mĂȘme pas Ă  temps plein !)

Mobilizon – Illustration de David Revoy

Framadrive

Framadrive, service de stockage de documents, n’est plus ouvert aux inscriptions, mais fonctionne toujours ! Et en chiffres, c’est :

  • 10,8 millions de fichiers
  • 4 794 utilisateurs et utilisatrices
  • 2,6 To d’espace disque utilisĂ©

Framapiaf

Framapiaf, installation du logiciel de micro-bloging Mastodon, n’est plus ouvert aux nouvelles inscriptions mais reste bien actif. En chiffres, c’est :

  • 1 500 utilisateurs et utilisatrices s’Ă©tant connecté·es dans les 30 derniers jours
  • 850 utilisateurs et utilisatrices ayant postĂ© au moins un message dans les 30 derniers jours

Dorlotons DĂ©googlisons – Illustration de David Revoy

Infrastructure technique

Framasoft est, Ă  notre connaissance, le plus gros hĂ©bergeur associatif de services en ligne au monde. Et a priori, ce modĂšle de fonctionnement associatif n’existe nulle part ailleurs ! En chiffres :

  • 58 serveurs et 60 machines virtuelles qui hĂ©bergent nos services en ligne
  • 0,6 tonne Ă©quivalent CO2 pour la consommation Ă©lectrique annuelle de notre infrastructure technique (notre hĂ©bergeur Hetzner utilisant des Ă©nergies renouvelables hydroĂ©lectriques et Ă©oliennes)
  • 1 admin sys Ă  temps plein et 2 personnes tech en soutien
  • 1 personne au support Ă  temps plein

Je participe au financement des Framaservices

 

L’association et les communs culturels

Les services en ligne que nous mettons Ă  disposition du public ne sont pas les seuls Ă  occuper nos journĂ©es. VoilĂ  quelques chiffres concernant d’autres actions que nous avons menĂ©es Ă  bien cette annĂ©e.

Dessin dans le style d'un jeu vidĂ©o de combat, oĂč s'affronte l'Ă©lĂ©phant et le piaf de DĂ©googlisonse et le monstre de Google Suite.
C’est grĂące Ă  vos dons que EspĂ©hef et AhĂšmvĂ© font face Ă  Hydrooffice ! Illustration de David Revoy

En interne

  • Framasoft c’est 28 membres bĂ©nĂ©voles et 11 salariĂ©â‹…es
  • 45 interventions en 2023, en prĂ©sentiel et/ou en ligne sur le numĂ©rique, les communs culturels et leurs enjeux
  • Plus de 130 articles publiĂ©s sur le Framablog en 2023
  • 2 auteur⋅ices accompagnĂ©â‹…es par notre maison d’Ă©dition Des Livres en Communs

Les projets partagés

  • 1 097 notices sur l’annuaire Framalibre
  • Une formation et un MOOC crĂ©Ă©s Ă  destination d’hĂ©bergeurs de services Ă©thiques
  • 21 prestataires en capacitĂ© d’accompagner des associations dans leur Ă©mancipation numĂ©rique recensĂ©s sur le site emancipasso.org
  • 5 visites d’Ă©tude dans 5 pays d’Europe pour le projet ECHO Network
  • 8 annĂ©es de coordination du collectif CHATONS regroupant actuellement 91 hĂ©bergeurs alternatifs

Je soutiens les actions de Framasoft

Nous avons besoin de vous !

C’est grĂące Ă  vos dons que nous pouvons garantir une totale indĂ©pendance financiĂšre de l’association : libertĂ© d’expĂ©rimenter, de poursuivre, de rater, d’arrĂȘter, de continuer nos projets, des plus sĂ©rieux aux plus loufoques, toujours en gardant le cap de notre projet associatif d’éducation populaire aux enjeux du numĂ©rique et des communs culturels. Et en chiffres :

  • 93 % de notre budget est financĂ© par des dons
  • 5 463 donateur⋅ices financent des actions utiles Ă  plus de 1,8 million de personnes chaque mois
  • 70 % du budget est consacrĂ© Ă  la masse salariale

RĂ©partition du budget de Framasoft

 

Framasoft est une association d’intĂ©rĂȘt gĂ©nĂ©ral : tous les dons qui nous sont faits sont dĂ©fiscalisables Ă  hauteur de 66 % pour les contribuables français⋅es. Ainsi un don de 100 € ne vous coĂ»tera en rĂ©alitĂ© que 34 € aprĂšs dĂ©fiscalisation.

Barre de dons Framasoft le 28 dĂ©cembre 2023, Ă  76% - 151079 €

Si nous voulons boucler notre budget pour 2024, il ne nous reste que 3 jours pour rĂ©colter 48 000 € : nous n’y arriverons pas sans votre aide !

 

Je fais un don Ă  Framasoft

 




Give the gift of free software with Framalibre !

There was one more present left at the foot of the Christmas tree… The French free software directory and founding project of Framasoft is evolving once again, into a site that’s nicer, simpler, more ergonomic… and a lot more practical for recommending your favourite free software!

 

 

🩆 VS 😈: Let’s take back some ground from the tech giants!

Thanks to your donations to our not-for-profit, Framasoft is taking action to advance the ethical, user-friendly web. Find a summary of our progress in 2023 on our Support Framasoft page.

âžĄïž Read the series of articles from this campaign (Nov. – Dec. 2023)

There was one more present left at the foot of the Christmas tree
 The free software directory and founding project of Framasoft is evolving once again, into a site that’s nicer, simpler, more ergonomic
 and a lot more practical for recommending your favourite free software!

[ENCART DE DONS]

Just over six years ago, we introduced you to a new “2017” version of our collaborative FOSS directory, Framalibre. Since then, we’ve been testing, learning and observing changes in usage.

We have used all these lessons to create this new “2024” version of Framalibre, which we are proud to present to you today on Framalibre.org.

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🎀 An obvious simplicity 🎀

So, for people who were used to the previous version of Framalibre, we warn you: it’s going to leave a gap
 You have every right to exclaim “but where’s all my junk?” 
 But for many newcomers to the world of free software, that was the problem!

Maiwann has done a lot of usability testing for us, especially at conferences and at the stands where we meet. These tests helped her to realise, for example, that putting a simple ‘mail’ label on the home page wasn’t helping people who were ‘looking for an alternative to Gmail’.

So for this new version, we’ve made a radical choice: simplicity. So we’ve gone to great lengths to simplify menus, sub-menus, drop-down menus, labels, boxes, notes, buttons, and so on.

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This radical choice for simplicity came at a price: we had to refocus the Framalibre directory on digital tools. The previous version wanted to open up to free culture, objects and structures. But the problem with doing a bit of everything is that it’s hard to do everything well: presenting all open source resources meant multiplying menus and categories, while increasing the complexity of creating a listing.

The new Framalibre site is deliberately bare bones. It welcomes you with a page displaying tags (the most frequently used search terms) and a search bar. Goodbye the meta-categories, categories, sub-categories and sub-category filters
 In short, the tree structure inherited from the 2001 directory!

Our aim is to respond as quickly as possible to your need to find free software to do what you need to do, or to find an alternative to the service provided by the web giants that you want to free yourself from: you search, you find.

Results for Photoshop search on Framalibre 2024

📃 Under the hood, the pages 📃

Dessin de Tux (manchot mascotte de Lunix) porté par GNU (gnou mascotte de GNU)
Click on GNU and Tux to support Framalibre! – illustration David Revoy – License : CC-By 4.0

For the more technical among you (the rest of you can skip straight to the next part ^^), this simplicity can also be found under the hood.

Framalibre 2017’s Drupal 7 needed a good upgrade, which takes time and energy. The entries database was difficult to access: while we’d done a good job of tinkering with something so that it could be used by others, we would have had to spend more time and energy developing a practical, documented API


Instead, we decided to devote this energy to applying this choice of simplicity to the software itself, by making the new Framalibre a static site, which we hope will be lighter and faster. The code for this tool, based on Jekyll software, was developed by the talents of l’ÉchappĂ©e Belle (thanks to Fanny and David <3), and of course it’s free and available online.

This choice of static allowed us to modify the structure of the entries and the database. Now written in markdown, these records can be read by both humans and scripts (as long as your robots remain well-behaved, of course :p). As the Framalibre records are CC-By SA, we hope that making them more accessible and readable will lead to some interesting re-uses!

We’ve also taken the opportunity to simplify the manuals as much as possible: you won’t find any screenshots of the software, for example. After a few years, these images are often outdated and misleading. From now on, the information presented in a manual will be simple and concise, and if you like this first look at a particular free software product, we invite you to find out more on the official website.

Entry for Krita on Framalibre 2024

🎁 “Here, this is what I use to free myself
” 🎁.

Illustraiton de MS Blue Scream, monstre de type blob, bleu, orné du logo de Windows
Click to support us and help to push back MS Blue Scream – Illustration CC-By David Revoy

Because our goal is not for you to stay on Framalibre as long as possible (yes, in the game of attention economy, Framasoft is frankly – and deliberately – bad 😉 ). On the contrary, Framalibre aims to be a mediator, a ramp to take you to the official site of the free tool that meets your needs.

In addition to being a search tool, we have designed this new Framalibre as a tool for recommending free and ethical alternatives. Whether it’s during the preliminary surveys and tests for this redesign of Framalibre, during the regular meetings we attend, or even when we look at how we operate ourselves
 we observe the same constant:

It’s much easier to adopt a free tool when it comes highly recommended by people we trust.

This is how we came up with the idea of adding a “used by Framasoft members” box at the top of certain search pages. This doesn’t mean that other software isn’t as good, or that it won’t meet your specific needs: it just shows the free software and services that we use regularly.

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💝 Framalibre mini-sites: offer your choices! 💝

With this new version of Framalibre, we wanted to go even further to encourage peer-to-peer recommendations. We know from experience that a person who uses free software today is a person who will help those around him or her to liberate their digital use tomorrow.

On the new Framalibre, you can make your own selection of free tools and get a link to a page that you can share with your friends and family!

Just for fun, here are a few examples we’ve put together for you:

We look forward to hearing your choice of free tools!

Dessin dans le style d'un jeu vidĂ©o de combat, oĂč s'affronte le Tux et le Gnu du logiciel libre et le monstre de microsoft Windows.
GNU and Tux against MB Blue Scream – Illustration David Revoy – License : CC-By 4.0

đŸ€ Collaboration is about sharing! đŸ€

Of course, Framalibre is and will remain a collaborative directory. Whether you want to add a record to the directory or correct an existing record, contributions are just a click away!

What’s more, we’ve made the whole process a lot easier (you can see there’s a theme here!). The downside is that your submissions will be reviewed by our team of moderators before they are published (rather than being moderated after submission, as was previously the case).

The upside is that there are already almost 1,019 entries to discover, like so many of the solutions that open source communities offer each of us to make our digital practices better.

And if you can’t find the entry for that great free software or application that freed you from the web giants
 feel free to add it: you’ll see, it’s (unsurprisingly) easy!

So now it’s up to you!

It’s up to you to use Framalibre to find, share and, above all, recommend the free tools that make your digital life easier
 and life in general!

Useful links

Because, yes, at the end of the year, we need you, your support and your sharing to help us regain ground on the toxic GAFAM web and create more ethical digital spaces.

So we’ve asked David Revoy to help us present this on our ‘Support Framasoft’ page, which we invite you to visit (because it’s beautiful) and above all to share as widely as possible:

Barre de dons Framasoft le 26 dĂ©cembre 2023, Ă  64 % - 128 602 €

If we are to balance our budget for 2024, we have just 5 days left to raise € 71 398 : we can’t do it without your help !

Support Framasoft




Offrez le cadeau du logiciel libre, avec Framalibre !

Il restait un cadeau au pied du sapin… L’annuaire du logiciel libre et projet fondateur de Framasoft Ă©volue Ă  nouveau, en un site plus beau, plus simple, plus ergonomique
 et beaucoup plus pratique pour recommander ses logiciels libres prĂ©fĂ©rĂ©s !

🩆 VS 😈 : Reprenons du terrain aux gĂ©ants du web !

GrĂące Ă  vos dons (dĂ©fiscalisables Ă  66 %), l’association Framasoft agit pour faire avancer le web Ă©thique et convivial. Retrouvez un rĂ©sumĂ© de nos avancĂ©es en 2023 sur le site Soutenir Framasoft.

âžĄïž Lire la sĂ©rie d’articles de cette campagne (nov. – dĂ©c. 2023)

Il y a un peu plus de six ans, nous vous prĂ©sentions une nouvelle version « 2017 » de notre annuaire collaboratif du Libre, Framalibre. Depuis, nous avons testĂ©, appris et observĂ© l’évolution des usages.

C’est donc riches de tous ces enseignements que nous avons concoctĂ© cette nouvelle version « 2024 » de Framalibre que nous vous prĂ©sentons aujourd’hui, avec fiertĂ©, sur Framalibre.org

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🎀 Une simplicitĂ© qui saute aux yeux 🎀

Alors pour les personnes qui Ă©taient habituĂ©es Ă  la version prĂ©cĂ©dente de Framalibre, on vous prĂ©vient : ça va faire un vide… Vous ĂȘtes tout Ă  fait en droit de vous Ă©crier « mais il est oĂč, tout mon bazar ? » 
 Or, pour beaucoup de nouvelles et de nouveaux dans le monde du libre, c’Ă©tait bien ça le problĂšme !

Maiwann a rĂ©alisĂ© pour nous des tests d’utilisation, notamment lors de confĂ©rences, ou sur des stands oĂč l’on se rencontre. Ces tests lui ont, par exemple, permis de rĂ©aliser qu’afficher une simple Ă©tiquette « mail » sur la page d’accueil n’aidait pas pour autant les personnes dont le besoin serait « trouver une alternative Ă  Gmail ».

Pour cette nouvelle mouture, nous avons donc fait un choix radical : celui de la simplicitĂ©. Nous avons donc rĂ©alisĂ© un grand travail pour simplifier les menus, sous-menus, menus secondaires, Ă©tiquettes, encadrĂ©s, affichages de notices, boutons…

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Ce choix radical de la simplicitĂ© a un coĂ»t : nous avons dĂ» recentrer l’annuaire Framalibre sur les outils numĂ©riques. La version prĂ©cĂ©dente avait voulu s’ouvrir Ă  la culture, aux objets et aux structures du libre. Mais le problĂšme quand on fait un peu de tout, c’est que c’est dur de faire tout bien : prĂ©senter tout le Libre induisait de multiplier les menus et les catĂ©gories tout en augmentant la complexitĂ© pour crĂ©er une notice.

Le nouveau site Framalibre est volontairement dĂ©pouillĂ©. Il vous accueille par une page affichant des Ă©tiquettes (les recherches les plus utilisĂ©es) et une barre de recherche. Finies les mĂ©ta-catĂ©gories, catĂ©gories, sous catĂ©gories, et filtres de sous-catĂ©gories
 Bref, l’arborescence hĂ©ritĂ©e de l’annuaire de 2001 !

Notre d’objectif est de rĂ©pondre au plus vite Ă  votre besoin de trouver un logiciel libre pour faire ce que vous avez Ă  faire, ou de trouver une alternative pour remplacer ce service des gĂ©ants du web dont vous voulez vous libĂ©rer : vous cherchez, vous trouvez.

rĂ©sultats d’une recherche photoshop sur Framalibre 2024

 

📃 Sous le capot, les pages 📃

Dessin de Tux (manchot mascotte de Lunix) porté par GNU (gnou mascotte de GNU)
Cliquez sur GNU et Tux pour soutenir Framalibre ! – illustration David Revoy – Licence : CC-By 4.0

Pour les plus techniques d’entre vous (les autres, vous pouvez passer directement Ă  la partie suivante ^^), cette simplicitĂ© se retrouve aussi sous le capot.

Le Drupal 7 de Framalibre 2017 avait besoin d’une bonne mise Ă  niveau, ce qui demande du temps et de l’Ă©nergie. La base de donnĂ©es des notices Ă©tait difficile d’accĂšs : si nous avions bien bricolĂ© quelque chose pour que cela puisse ĂȘtre utilisĂ© par d’autres, il nous aurait fallu mettre plus de temps et d’Ă©nergie Ă  dĂ©velopper une API pratique et documentĂ©e…

Nous avons prĂ©fĂ©rĂ© consacrer cette Ă©nergie Ă  appliquer ce choix de la simplicitĂ© dans le logiciel mĂȘme, en faisant du nouveau Framalibre un site statique, que l’on espĂšre plus lĂ©ger et rapide. Le code de cet outil, basĂ© sur le logiciel Jekyll, a Ă©tĂ© dĂ©veloppĂ© par les talents de l’ÉchappĂ©e Belle (merci Ă  Fanny et David <3), et bien entendu il est libre et disponible en ligne.

Ce choix du statique nous a permis de modifier la structure des notices et de la base de données. Désormais écrites en markdown, ces notices sont lisibles aussi bien par des humaines que par des scripts (tant que vos robots restent bien élevés, ça va de soi :p). Les notices de Framalibre étant sous CC-By SA, nous espérons que faciliter leur accÚs et leur lisibilité permettra des réutilisations intéressantes !

Nous en avons d’ailleurs profitĂ© pour simplifier au maximum les notices : vous n’y trouverez plus, par exemple, de capture d’Ă©cran du logiciel. En effet, au bout de quelques annĂ©es, ces images sont souvent pĂ©rimĂ©es et trompeuses. DĂ©sormais, les informations prĂ©sentĂ©es dans une notice sont simples, succinctes, et si ce premier regard sur tel ou tel logiciel libre vous plaĂźt, on vous invite Ă  trouver plus d’informations sur le site officiel.

Notice de Krita sur Framalibre 2024

🎁 « Tiens, voici ce que j’utilise pour me libĂ©rer… » 🎁

Illustraiton de MS Blue Scream, monstre de type blob, bleu, orné du logo de Windows
Cliquez pour nous soutenir et aider Ă  repousser MS Blue Scream – Illustration CC-By David Revoy

Car notre objectif n’est pas que vous restiez sur Framalibre le plus longtemps possible (oui, au jeu de l’Ă©conomie de l’attention, Framasoft est franchement -et volontairement- mauvaise 😉 ). Au contraire, Framalibre se veut un intermĂ©diaire, une rampe pour vous Ă©lancer vers le site officiel de l’outil libre qui rĂ©pond Ă  votre besoin.

Au-delĂ  d’ĂȘtre un outil de recherche, nous avons pensĂ© ce nouveau Framalibre comme un outil de recommandation d’alternatives libres et Ă©thiques. Que ce soit lors des enquĂȘtes et tests prĂ©liminaires Ă  cette refonte de Framalibre, durant les rencontres rĂ©guliĂšres auxquelles nous participons ou mĂȘme lorsque l’on regarde nos fonctionnements Ă  nous.
 nous observons la mĂȘme constante :

Il est beaucoup plus facile d’adopter un outil libre lorsqu’il nous est chaudement recommandĂ© par des personnes en qui nous avons confiance.

C’est comme cela que nous avons eu l’idĂ©e d’ajouter un encadrĂ© « utilisĂ© par les membres de Framasoft » en haut de certaines pages de recherche. Cela ne veut pas dire que les autres logiciels soient moins bien, ni qu’ils ne rĂ©pondent pas Ă  votre attente spĂ©cifique : cela permet juste de montrer les logiciels et services libres que nous utilisons rĂ©guliĂšrement.

capture d'Ă©cran d'un mini-site pour recommander des logiciels libres pour les associations, on voit les logiciels Etherpad, Nextcloud et SparkleShare
Un mini-site de recommandations Framalibre

💝 Les mini-sites Framalibre : offrez vos sĂ©lections ! 💝

Avec cette nouvelle version de Framalibre, nous avions envie d’aller encore plus loin pour favoriser la recommandation de pair Ă  pair. Nous savons, d’expĂ©rience, qu’une personne qui utilise du libre aujourd’hui est une personne qui, demain, aidera ses proches Ă  libĂ©rer leurs usages numĂ©riques.

Sur le nouveau Framalibre, vous pouvez faire votre sĂ©lection d’outils libres, et obtenir le lien d’une page Ă  partager avec vos proches !

Rien que pour le plaisir, voici quelques exemples que nous vous avons concoctés :

Nous avons hĂąte de vous voir partager vos sĂ©lections d’outils libres !

Dessin dans le style d'un jeu vidĂ©o de combat, oĂč s'affronte le Tux et le Gnu du logiciel libre et le monstre de microsoft Windows.
GNU & Tux contre MB Blue Scream – Illustration David Revoy – Licence : CC-By 4.0

đŸ€ Le collaboratif, ça se partage ! đŸ€

Bien entendu, Framalibre est et reste un annuaire collaboratif. Que vous vouliez ajouter une notice Ă  l’annuaire ou corriger une notice existante, la contribution est Ă  portĂ©e de clic !

Nous avons d’ailleurs rendu tout le processus plus
 simple (vous sentiez qu’il y a comme un thĂšme, lĂ  !). La contrepartie, c’est que vos contributions seront vĂ©rifiĂ©es avant publication par notre Ă©quipe de modĂ©ratrices et modĂ©rateurs (et non plus modĂ©rĂ©es a posteriori comme avant).

L’avantage, c’est qu’il y a dĂ©jĂ  prĂšs de 1 019 notices Ă  aller dĂ©couvrir, comme autant de solutions que les communautĂ©s du Libre offrent Ă  chacune et chacun d’entre nous pour mieux Ă©manciper ses pratiques numĂ©riques.

Et si vous n’y trouvez pas la fiche de ce super logiciel libre ou de cette app formidable qui vous a Ă©mancipĂ© des gĂ©ants du web… Libre Ă  vous de l’ajouter : vous allez voir, c’est (sans trop de surprise) simple !

Alors dĂ©sormais, c’est Ă  vous de jouer !

À vous de vous emparer de Framalibre pour trouver, partager mais surtout pour recommander les outils libres qui vous facilitent la vie numĂ©rique
 et la vie tout court !

Les liens utiles

Car oui : cette fin d’annĂ©e encore, nous avons besoin de vous, de votre soutien, de vos partages, pour nous aider Ă  reprendre du terrain sur le web toxique des GAFAM, et multiplier les espaces de numĂ©rique Ă©thique.

Nous avons donc demandĂ© Ă  David Revoy de nous aider Ă  montrer cela sur notre site Soutenir Framasoft, que nous vous invitons Ă  visiter (parce que c’est beau) et surtout Ă  partager le plus largement possible :

Barre de dons Framasoft le 26 dĂ©cembre 2023, Ă  64 % - 128 602 €

Si nous voulons boucler notre budget pour 2024, il ne nous reste plus que 5 jours pour rĂ©colter 71 398 € : nous n’y arriverons pas sans votre aide !

 

Soutenir Framasoft

 




Emancip’Asso : Ethical right down to your digits

Until 2022, the time spent on Emancip’Asso was mainly used to find funding for the project, set up and run a steering committee and organise training for ethical service providers, but it was in 2023 that the project really took off. We’re well on the way to enabling associations that want to free themselves from the digital tools of the web giants to find structures that can support them in this transition.

🩆 VS 😈: Let’s take back some ground from the tech giants!

Thanks to your donations to our not-for-profit, Framasoft is taking action to advance the ethical, user-friendly web. Find a summary of our progress in 2023 on our Support Framasoft page.

âžĄïž Read the series of articles from this campaign (Nov. – Dec. 2023)

 

Illustration de Toxicloud, un monstre vaporeux et toxique avec le logo de Amazon Web Services
Click to support us and push back Toxicloud – Illustration CC-By David Revoy

Emancip’Asso, a 4-part project

Conceived in 2021 in partnership with Animafac, co-piloted by a large number of organisations from the popular education, voluntary and digital sectors, and integrated into our roadmap “Collectivese Internet / Convivialise Internet”, the main objective of the Emancip’Asso project is to bring together ethical digital service providers and voluntary organisations in need of support in their emancipatory digital transition.

In order to achieve its objective, the project will include 4 actions:

  • Training for providers of ethical online services;
  • An online course, a digital version of the training;
  • A website listing service providers who specialise in helping associations make the digital transition and providing a place for associations to help each other and share their needs;
  • A major communications campaign to encourage associations to recognise the contradiction of trying to change the world using the tools of capitalism.

It’s been a busy year: the first 3 actions detailed above have now been completed! We’ll tell you all about them in the rest of this article.

Training suppliers of ethical digital services to support associations

We’ve come to the conclusion that there are very few ethical digital service providers offering solutions that really take into account the needs of voluntary organisations, and in particular the support required to make a successful transition to open source digital tools. The first stage of the Emancip’Asso project therefore aims to support the development of the skills of these actors through two mechanisms: training and an online course (MOOC).

A much-appreciated training course in January 2023

20 people met in Paris from 16 to 20 January at the premises of the FPH (Charles LĂ©opold Mayer Foundation for the Progress of Humanity) to take part in the training course “Developing a range of services to support associations in their ethical digital transition” (in French). Although the original training programme (in French) had to be slightly modified as Thursday 19 January was a day of action against the pension reform, all presentations were able to take place during the week.

un chaton patissier qui présente un nuage-gateau fait sur commande, tansdi qu'en arriÚre plan d'autres chatons cuisinent un autre nuage gùteau au millieu de leur village arbre-à-chats
Emancip’Asso – Illustration CC-By David Revoy

Once again, we would like to thank the 9 people who agreed to take part in this training session to share their expertise and exchange views with the participants. Their contributions were much appreciated (see below) and proved invaluable in providing a solid base of knowledge and resources for the production of the MOOC.

We would also like to thank the 20 people who attended the 7 training sessions and took part in the many informal discussions that took place. Our objective of giving priority to alternative hosts who are members of the Collectif des HĂ©bergeurs Alternatifs Transparents Ouverts Neutres et Solidaires (CHATONS) was achieved, as 70% of the participants are active within an organisation that is a member of the CHATONS collective (14 people), representing a total of 11 structures that are members of the CHATONS collective (Alolise, Assodev-Marsnet, le Cloud Girofle, la Contre-Voie, Deuxfleurs, Immae. eu, Libretic, Nebulae, PĂąquerette, Picasoft and Sleto). Of the 6 other participants, one has seen his organisation (FuturEtic) join the CHATONS collective in June 2023 and another (Krashboyz Bordel Klub) is currently applying to join.

Illustration CC-By David Revoy

The satisfaction questionnaire we sent out to participants highlights the fact that, overall, the week was beneficial for everyone. For example, 35% of participants found the training very satisfactory, 60% fairly satisfactory and only one participant found the training fairly unsatisfactory.

The most popular teaching sequences were:

  • Carry out a digital diagnosis of an association
  • Developing your network and thinking about complementary work
  • Communicating and designing a service offer
  • User training and support/assistance
  • An overview of the digital uses of associations
  • Understand the non-profit sector
  • Establish a strategic dialogue with the association

(Satisfaction rate calculated on the basis of 5 criteria: quality of theoretical content, quality of practical content, quality of teaching approach, quality of facilitation tools and listening ability/availability).

We also asked participants how satisfied they were with other aspects of the training. And as the graph below shows, overall satisfaction was high, with a few rare exceptions.

However, we recognise that certain aspects could be improved:

  • encourage less top-down methods of knowledge transfer,
  • providing more practical work and exchange of practice
  • improving the coherence between the different interventions
  • using more appropriate premises.

And we’ll do our best if we decide to run the course again in the future. But at the moment we don’t have the funding to do so.

A full MOOC in December 2023

It took us almost a year to turn the training into a MOOC, but that’s it: the online course “Developing a range of services to support voluntary organisations in their ethical digital transition” is now available on the CHATONS MOOC platform (only in French, sorry!). Mind you, the paint is still fresh and there are bound to be a few typos, but this online course, which is primarily aimed at organisations and individuals who already provide online services or who want to offer them to associations, will enable you to acquire a methodology and support techniques that go far beyond simply providing services.

The CHATONS #2 MOOC is broadly based on the educational sequence of the training course and allows you to navigate as you wish within 8 major themes, each of which offers several lessons and an MCQ (for self-assessment of acquired knowledge). Each lesson is structured around illustrated textual content and sometimes includes activities for you to complete. While we do not aim to be exhaustive, we have tried to summarise the state of knowledge on each topic and systematically include a ‘further reading’ section so that anyone wishing to delve deeper into the subject can consult additional resources.

Illustration CC-By David Revoy

The course is now open and anyone can join whenever they like: there’s no registration period to keep to. In fact, you don’t even need to register to view the lessons. However, we recommend that you create an account to take advantage of advanced features:

  • Access to self-assessment exercises in the form of multiple choice questions;
  • Access to the self-help forum
  • Track your progress through the course (so you can pick up a lesson where you left off, or keep track of your assessment results).

The key word here is autonomy. We want to give learners as much freedom as possible in their learning path: everyone can follow the lessons at their own pace and manage the time they devote to this MOOC.

As usual with Framasoft, all content created for this MOOC is released under a free CC-By-SA licence (some images and videos from third party sites are marked as such). We hope that it will evolve, especially thanks to the contributions and feedback on the support forum. This MOOC should therefore be seen as an organic, living community: it will grow if we take care of it. If there are missing resources, if an activity is off the mark, if a lesson is too long, we invite you to share your opinion and suggest improvements on the support forum.

A website to help associations get in touch with service providers, but that’s not all


The first objective of the Emancip’Asso project was to enable ethical online service providers to develop their skills in supporting associations, but the second was to create an online space where associations could identify them. That’s why, right from the start of the project, we planned to create a website to bring people together. But before we could start creating the site, we had to create a graphic identity for Emancip’Asso.

A graphic identity and design 👌

In September 2022, we asked a group of students to work on the creation of the graphic charter and visual identity for the Emancip’Asso project, as part of the supervised projects within the Colibre pro degree. After an initial phase in which the project was presented and our brief explained, 4 students⋅es carried out a comparison of the graphic charters/visual identities of ‘neighbouring’ projects before drawing up a set of specifications presenting their analysis of the needs, from which they each developed a proposal for the graphic charter. One of these proposals met our expectations and served as the inspiration for our service provider, Thomas Nicolas (thanks to him), to create the logo.

logo Emancip'Asso

At the same time, we responded to a call for projects from the Latitudes association, which each year offers to help organisations with a committed digital project to bring it to fruition through a tutoring programme with students from their partner schools. Between October 2022 and January 2023, three second-year students from the CentraleSupélec engineering school worked on a prototype of the future website. After learning about the project, they thought about the tree structure of the future website and the functionalities to be offered on each page, before creating mock-ups using the Penpot tool. These mock-ups were then used by our service provider, the Coopérative des Internets, to build the site.

The graphic identity and design of emancipasso.org is the result of the work of many people, and we’re pretty damn proud of it.

Capture Ă©cran de la page d'accueil du site emancipasso.org
Screenshot of the emancipasso.org website

A directory of service providers, a community and resources

The emancipasso.org website, created by La Coopérative des Internets (thanks to them!), is divided into 3 sections.

The first is a directory of service providers able to support associations wishing to make the transition to open source digital tools.

By “support”, we mean accompanying the association through all the stages necessary for its transition (co-development of a digital strategy, diagnosis and recommendations, implementation of these recommendations and assistance in getting to grips with the solutions deployed). We found that associations often had difficulty finding professionals who could provide this type of tailored support. Like many organisations, not-for-profits think in terms of ‘tools’ first, before thinking about a digital strategy to ensure a smooth transition (without having to return to the services of the web giants after a few months because they haven’t thought through all the aspects of this transition). For this reason, associations will not find in this directory providers who only offer technical solutions. In fact, we have systematically asked service providers who have volunteered to be included in this directory to prove that they have already carried out several projects to support associations.

Dessin de Shane, la Lynx mascotte de Emancip'Asso. Elle est en tenus street wear, les bras croisés, confiante.
Click to support us and help Shane, Émancip’Asso mascot – Illustration CC-By David Revoy

So far, 20 service providers are listed in this directory. That’s a start. Over the past month, we have been actively communicating with support professionals about the existence of this site. What’s more, we’re expecting service providers who have taken the training or the MOOC to register in the next few months. So it’s still a work in progress and you can access it. If you know of people or organisations that could be listed, please let us know.

The emancipasso.org website is also intended to be a gateway to a community where associations and other players in the emancipatory digital ecosystem can help and advise each other, share best practices and communicate their needs in terms of tools and/or functionalities so that development costs can be shared between several organisations. Based on the observation that associations, and in particular the people in charge of the digital aspects within them, currently have very few forums in which to discuss their practices in relation to the digital transition (thanks, incidentally, to the Mouvement Associatif and its regional delegations, which regularly address this issue), we felt it was essential to offer a space where they could feel less isolated on these issues.

Finally, the Resources section offers a selection of content aimed at voluntary organisations, so that they can familiarise themselves with ethical digital technology, but also at service providers, so that they can improve their knowledge of the voluntary sector and their methods of support. Our aim here is to list as much educational content as possible to promote the emancipation of the voluntary sector. If you have resources that we have not identified, please let us know (by sending a message to contact(at)emancipasso(dot)org) so that we can add them.

What about 2024?

In the coming weeks and months we will continue to work on the MOOC “Developing a range of services to support associations in their ethical digital transition” to correct what still needs to be corrected, improve certain content and add video sequences from the recording of the training session.

We will also continue to invite service providers to join the Emancip’Asso directory and to process applications. It’s a long-term task to identify all the existing structures and ensure that they really offer services to associations that include a support dimension. Throughout the year, we will try to be present at the main gatherings of ethical and responsible digital professionals to inform them about the scheme and encourage them to join.

Dessin dans le style d'un jeu vidĂ©o de combat, oĂč s'affronte la lynx de Emancipasso et le monstre de Amazon Web Services.
Thanks to your donations, Shane is not afraid to fight Toxicloud. – Illustration CC-By David Revoy

But the biggest task will be to carry out the fourth stage of the project: to make associations aware of the incoherence of trying to change the world using the tools of capitalism and to encourage them to go to emancipasso.org to find resources, peer support and service providers to help them in their transition. To do this, we plan to launch a targeted communications campaign throughout March 2024. We are currently working on this and hope you will help us by sharing our communication materials with your favourite associations! And throughout the year, we will be presenting the project at the main events that bring together the voluntary sector (Forum national de l’ESS, UniversitĂ©s d’étĂ© du Mouvement Associatif, Forum national des associations, etc.) to raise awareness.

Finally, once the associations are aware of the project and have joined the Emancip’Asso community, we will put more energy into animating this community in order to facilitate exchanges between participants. Our goal is for the Emancip’Asso community to become an essential space for all associations in transition or that have completed their digital transition, and for frequent visits to this community to become an integral part of associative practices.

Thank you for supporting Emancip’Asso and Framasoft

Although the costs of the Emancip’Asso project have so far been covered by the Fondation Charles LĂ©opold Mayer pour le ProgrĂšs de l’Homme (FPH), the Fondation CrĂ©dit CoopĂ©ratif and the Fondation Un monde par tous, we no longer have any external sources of funding for the rest of the project.

So if you like this project and if it’s possible for you, we encourage you to support Framasoft. A part of your donations will help us to finance the costs (communication campaign and project coordination) of the Emancip’Asso project in 2024.

Once again this year, we need you, your support, your sharing to help us regain ground on the toxic GAFAM web and multiply the number of ethical digital spaces.

So we’ve asked David Revoy to help us present this on our « Support Framasoft » page, which we invite you to visit (because it’s beautiful) and above all to share as widely as possible :

Barre de dons Framasoft le 19dĂ©cembre 2023, Ă  45% - 90140 €

If we are to balance our budget for 2024, we have just 12 days left to raise € 109000: we can’t do it without your help !

 

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