Be generous

True generosity
When you do something for someone without waiting for anything back.
OpenSource Communities of developpers, for example, are giving a lot of their time and knowledge to improve capacities of packages and computers. They try to help poor countries giving us computers with GNU/Linux. Wikipedia is an other good example of true generosity.

Exchange generosity
When you do something for someone and receive something back.
For example, when you put a link for someone on your webpage, you aren't sure there will be a link about you on his too but it's possible.

Generosity as a business model
When it's not someone but a company who give something without waiting for anything back.
I think it's the business model of a lot of web companies. They give us services (Twitter, Facebook and so more), ideas, knowledge (podcasts...) but their business model only depend on publicity. Deezer, for example, stands on this idea of generosity as a business model : everyone can heard music but can't theft it. They have conclude agreements with majors of industry music.

How I use Facebook

My first feeling about Facebook when I discovered it 6 months ago was "cool, I could find old friends and exchange my pictures with new" but also "oh, and what about my privacy?"

I've hesitated giving my real name on the website, but I would be very stupid giving a pseudonym if I wanted to be find by friends... I've just decided no to giving a lot of personal informations (as for example my phone number, adress and mail) and refused to let my entire profile be seen by everybody.

What I really appreciate with Facebook are funny groups (as a way of showing his personal interests and sense of humour) and multiple degrees of keeping in touch with his friends : from the most public (wall, social feeds and gifts) to the classical but how useful inbox.

Most of Facebook applications are gagdets and not very adapted to the design of the profile page. To chaotic and heavy. But interesting for developers students and starts-up, I guess.

The Facebook song :)

cineseventies

You want to know everything about seventies movies? It will be soon possible with the new website I try to make.

I've noticed that nothing exists on french web about this period. French movies websites as allocine, objectif-cinema, critikat, or le ciné-club de Caen, don't speak about this particular period in movies history. So I thought it'll be a good idea to create a site specifically about seventies movies and a good way for me to learn website creation.

I used Drupal, a very flexible and user-friendly CMS. Then, I tried to play with css but I was a bit disappointed to confirm how I was new with web design. So I've decided to avoid huge theme modifications and stay with simple design.

The next step, and not the smallest, is now the content :)

You will see my incredible masterpiece in a few weeks on =^-^=. (I'll tell you later)

As an apetizer, an extract of the psychedelic movie of french seducer Christian Marquand, Candy (1968).

Mozilla24

Last saturday I've been to the mozilla24 event in Paris, at the Ecole des Télécommunications. I've seen the info three days earlier reading my Netvibes feeds.

The journey was just amazing. We were connected with members of the opensource family in Japan and Thailand. In Paris there were Tristan Nitot, Mozilla Europe CEO, François Bancilhon, the Chief Executive Officer of Mandriva, Charles Schulz, who work for OpenOffice.org as a lead of Native-Language Confederation and Pierre Baudoin, president of Wikimedia France. You can see the list of all the participants here.

Andrei took some pictures :



They've talked about progresses and hopes of the opensource movement. GNU/Linux could be a great chance for poor countries to receive access to the Internet and improve their capacities being connected to the world.

I've particularly appreciate Tristan Nitot and François Bancilhon speak for the optimism and lucidity of their ideas. A lot of things have been said during this event and I was very enthusiastic of all the generosity who was there.

Thanks Mozilla for all the stuff we bring back at home :)