Skip to content

Default to Open: Migration plan for the OpenScienceMOOC

Danny Colin edited this page Dec 20, 2018 · 14 revisions

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

See issue related to that topic

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 https://gitlab.com/
Collabora Online Google Docs
OnlyOffice Google Docs
NextCloud Google Drive
Gitter Slack https://gitter.im
Mattermost Slack
Riot.im Slack https://riot.im
Mailman Tiny Letter
Sympa Tiny Letter GPL-2.0-or-later https://www.sympa.org/
Mastodon Twitter https://mastodon.social [2]

Open Source vs. Alternative

Notes

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

2: This is the official instance but you could 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.

Clone this wiki locally