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  Debian for wide-world, yes we can! MENGUAL Jean-Philippe <mengualjeanphi@free.fr> - 2018-04-20 15:00 +0200
    Re: Debian for wide-world, yes we can! Ben Finney <bignose@debian.org> - 2018-04-22 06:30 +0200

#194905 — Debian for wide-world, yes we can!

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Hi,

I have been a Debian contributor for 10 years, even if it is in back
office and in particular in the accessibility team. Then I am more and
more sure that this distro can be adopted by everybody. Yes additional
service is needed, of course some stuff need to be fixed more quickly
than upstream do in user experience, sure upstream needs help, but I do
all this now through hypra https://hypra.fr.

Hypra developed:
- a service to provide a free software based computer, as nice as
typical PCs, with a better uman support (better privacy, including
search engine, etc)
- a Debian system accessible through the newest solutions dedicated to
the universal design
- contributions to projects such as GTK, Firefox, Libreoffice, and
assistive technologies.
- 200 blind and old people now use Debian GNU/Linux, Libreoffice and
Firefox thanks to our system and human support.

Three years later, I am afraid with two things. 1. Most free software
companies drop the desktop. It has consequences on privacy, and usae of
computers with a low Internet connection. Cloud is cool, but excludes
basic users, and while they use tablets or mobiles, they drop their data
and limit their usage. Free software has not yet had success due to lack
of human support with the free software based products. 2. Free software
has less and less forces for accessibility and universal design. Only 5
persons work on the accessibility stac.

The struggle must go on! We shall never surrender! Because Hypra uses
software and service, libre except for components unacceptable by basic
users in their current status, because we believe in capability of
everybody to use a computer if assisted and supported, many people now
have invested in Hypra to support us. Public funds are there, but
require to be completed by crowd equity.

The campaign is finished in less than 1 month. We search for 30000
euros, we raised 140000. If everybody helps, free software will be
enforced to be developped for basic users instead of professional only,
Hypra will be democratical as funds depend on contributors.

Yes, supporting Hypra is contributing to an ethical computing project to
avoid computing to take control of our societes. Of course we do that
hoping an economical feedback so that investment is not lost.

Any further information is available if you want, don't hesitate to
forward to intereted persons.


Thanks in advance to anyone supporting tis initiative.

Cheers,

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MENGUAL Jean-Philippe <mengualjeanphi@free.fr> writes:

> Hypra developed […] a service to provide a free software based
> computer, as nice as typical PCs, with a better uman support (better
> privacy, including search engine, etc)
> - 200 blind and old people now use Debian GNU/Linux, Libreoffice and
> Firefox thanks to our system and human support.

That is a great service, thank you for maintaining it!

> Three years later, I am afraid with two things. 1. Most free software
> companies drop the desktop. It has consequences on privacy, and usae of
> computers with a low Internet connection.

This is not special to free-software companies. The desktop platforms
are in sharp decline generally, as most software is provided either as
Service as a Software Substitute, which strips autonomy from users
<URL:https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/who-does-that-server-really-serve.html>,
or mobile apps, where the computing platform is tightly controlled by
the monopolists (Apple, Google, Amazon) instead of the user community.

> Free software has not yet had success due to lack of human support
> with the free software based products.

Yes, free software certainly has gone backward in mind share, because
the desktop platform shrank in importance and we do not yet have a
decent foothold on the mobile and SaaSS platforms. The gains from the
1980s and 1990s need to be won all over again, and this time the
monopolists are more prepared :-/

<URL:https://archive.org/details/EbenMoglen-TheHardwareWarsAndTheFutureOfFreeSoftware>

> 2. Free software has less and less forces for accessibility and
> universal design. Only 5 persons work on the accessibility stac.

Kudos to those who do, and I agree with your implication that more
people need to work on accessibility in free software.

> Thanks in advance to anyone supporting tis initiative.

Thank you for raising attention to this, and viva Hypra!

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  `\                 other field.” —Erik Naggum, in _gnu.misc.discuss_ |
_o__)                                                                  |
Ben Finney

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