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arXiv is an e-print service in the fields of physics, mathematics, computer science, quantitative biology, quantitative finance and statistics. 

La licence MIT ou licence X11 est une licence de logiciel utilisée notamment pour la diffusion du gestionnaire de fenêtre X11 (ou X Window System). Elle est aussi appelée Licence MIT car elle provient du Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), mais l'appellation est impropre car le MIT utilise aussi d'autres licences logicielles.

Here is the official video for the MIT OpenCourseWare 1800 event: Unlocking Knowledge, Empowering Minds: A Milestone Celebration. The event celebrates the publishing of the 1800th course on MIT OpenCourseWare. 

Brewster Kahle est un informaticien américain, diplômé du Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). il développa et promut le système WAIS. Créateur du moteur de recherche Alexa, décide de prendre une initiative majeure en matière d'archivage des contenus diffusés sur internet.

The dark side impacts of IT on society

Economic Contribution of Industries Relying on Fair Use in the US

"Promise Tracker is a citizen-monitoring platform designed to help communities track issues they care about and use that information to advocate for change with local government, institutions, or the press. More than a data collection platform, Promise Tracker is a civic process designed to gather groups of citizens to discuss critical issues in their communities, collect actionable information to better understand those issues, and engage in dialogue with local actors in order to develop solutions."

Bruce Sterling is back this year. He has a remarkable ability to both celebrate dreams of the future - but also to challenge us with the problems he sees. That makes us more deeply consider what we are doing, why we are doing it - and the potential consequences of those decisions.

Bruce Sterling closes the SXSW Interactive Festival with a wide-ranging, hour-long speech about the state of the nation (technological obsolescence of humanity, the robots-will-take-our-jobs,...)

"The Open Bank Project is an open source API and App store for banks that empowers financial institutions to securely and rapidly enhance their digital offerings using an ecosystem of 3rd party applications and services"

Wikimedia UK has been working with the Medical Research Council, Cancer Research UK and individual medical academics to get experts checking and improving Wikipedia's medical articles. Last year, The Times observed that patients use a combination of Wikipedia and official sources to inform their choices about treatment (article behind a paywall). The newspaper praised experts who improve Wikipedia, saying their work helps to empower patient choices and give them confidence in their treatment.

Immediate action is required to halt the COVID-19 Pandemic and treat those it has affected. It is a practical and moral imperative that every tool we have at our disposal be applied to develop and deploy technologies on a massive scale without impediment. We therefore pledge to make our intellectual property available free of charge for use in ending the COVID-19 pandemic and minimizing the impact of the disease. We will implement this pledge through a license that details the terms and conditions under which our intellectual property is made available.

Richard Stallman shares how he has created the first free operating system, and explains how nonfree programs give companies control of their users and what users can do in order to recover control over their computing Quotes: Nowadays, computing is so important in society that the freedoms of free software are among the human rights that society must establish and protect.

The city of Barcelona's manifesto for data and technological sovereignty. Actively promote free software, open data, open city data, citizen's digital rights, interoperability, etc.

System76 funds development of FLOSS by providing custom hardware supporting GNU/Linux out of the box. They developed from scratch a Free BIOS alternative (coreboot). By selling laptops easy to repair they raise money to develop their ubuntu-derivative (Pop!_OS) optimized for their machines

Support the preservation of mother tongues , allow users of office productivity software to retain the intellectual propertyin the documents they create. The home for our activities should be an independent self-governing democratic foundation. They reject A closed software development process where errors can lie hidden and poor quality is accepted

Deputy Chairman of The Document Foundation (Libreoffice). involved in the Taiwanese open source community since 1993, and since 2015 he is the President of the Software Liberty Association Taiwan (SLAT)

Proponent of reduced legal restrictions on copyright, trademark, and radio frequency spectrum, particularly in technology applications. In 2001, he founded Creative Commons. He is a former board member of the Free Software Foundation and Software Freedom Law Center; the Washington, D.C. lobbying groups Public Knowledge and Free Press; and the Electronic Frontier Foundation.

Frances Haugen: the EU has a 'once-in-a-generation opportunity' to regulate Facebook

The new rules are proportionate, foster innovation, growth and competitiveness, and facilitate the scaling up of smaller platforms, SMEs and start-ups. The responsibilities of users, platforms, and public authorities are rebalanced according to European values, placing citizens at the centre. The rules Better protect consumers and their fundamental rights online Establish a powerful transparency and a clear accountability framework for online platforms Foster innovation, growth and competitiveness within the single market