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Default to Open: Migration plan for the OpenScienceMOOC

Danny Colin edited this page Mar 25, 2019 · 14 revisions

This document will serve to help us planning the migration to a more open workflow.

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Please insert your alternative by respecting the alphabetical order in the "Alternative To" column

Some applications like Twitter and Facebook could also be use in parallel of an open source alternative. That way, We give an option to people who wants to only use FOSS but we still have a way to communicate with the rest of the world. We could also consider to promote alternative on our proprietary platform account ;).

List of Alternatives

Application name Alternative To License [1] Website
Diaspora Facebook AGPL-3.0-or-later https://diasporafoundation.org/
GitLab GitHub MIT https://gitlab.com/
Collabora CODE Google Docs MPL-2.0 and GPL-3.0-or-later https://www.collaboraoffice.com
OnlyOffice Google Docs AGPL-3.0-only https://onlyoffice.org
NextCloud Google Drive AGPL-3.0-only https://nextcloud.com
Gitter Slack MIT https://gitter.im
Mattermost Slack MIT, Apache-2.0 or AGPL-3.0-only https://mattermost.com/
Matrix (Synapse) Slack Apache-2.0 https://matrix.org [2]
Zulip Slack Apache-2.0 https://zulipchat.com
Mailman Tiny Letter GPL-2.0-or-later https://list.org/
Mailtrain Tiny Letter GPL-3.0-or-later https://mailtrain.org/
Sympa Tiny Letter GPL-2.0-or-later https://www.sympa.org/
Mastodon Twitter AGPL-3.0-or-later https://mastodon.social [3]

Notes

1: https://spdx.org/licenses/ - Use SPDX license codes instead of license names

2: https://matrix.org/docs/projects/try-matrix-now.html - Here's a list of clients suggested by the Matrix team.

3: This is the official instance but you can use an other one if you like. Mastodon is a decentralized platform. That mean every instance can communicate with each other but aren't necessarily managed by the same person.

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