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2026-07-17 09:42 UTC
Thomas Depierre presenting the keynote “From Swords to Plowshares” at GUADEC, exploring the model of FOSS maintainership in society.
“All maps are wrong, some are useful. It depends on what you are doing in the moment.” Similarly, all models are inherently wrong—they’re models, after all. But what is interesting is what they reveal and how they are used.
Watch live: https://www.youtube.com/live/EGazCEww9II
#GUADEC #GUADEC2026 #GNOME
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@gnome@floss.social 2026-07-17 09:51
Society depends on software. Software encodes a model of the world—but the world changes. Thus, society needs software to change. This requires maintenance. The reality is that 70% of all software running in production is FOSS (Synopsis, 2020). FOSS has won, and is bigger than you think. Yet, FOSS in the vast majority of cases is “one person” and 60–85% of FOSS is a hobby (Tidelift, 2024)—and there is no link to the criticality of a package. #GUADEC2026 #GUADEC #GNOME