Re: [libreplanet-discuss] Building a free/libre platform for reviews

[John Sullivan]

Erik Moeller <eloquence@gmail.com> writes:

> - Are there existing efforts you’re aware of that I should seek out?

I'm sure you're already aware, but the first thing I thought of was
wikitravel.org.

> - Are there things you’d like to review/find reviews for that you’re
> currently not able to? (For example, I haven’t seen a popular platform
> for reviewing free/libre software, yet.)

We'd love to figure out how to build that example into
directory.fsf.org, or possibly pull in reviews from another site. We've
experimented in the past with star-based ratings.

Pulling in free data from another other sources could be interesting.
Debian's popcon data, for example, could be a useful field to include in
a template for software review entries.

As another example of why this project is important -- Amazon disabled
their tagging system, so users can't tag products anymore. We used to
use that tagging functionality to make important critical/protest points
about products (like, "defectivebydesign" because of DRM). I know from
Amazon sources that our protest tags were used at least once as examples
in an internal Amazon presentation.

-john

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