FOSSDA is a not-for-profit foundation that aims to engage with the pioneers of open-source software and share their legacies with the world. The FOSSDA Project will create digital recordings and archives of the history of the open-source software movement, documenting the stories of the developers, visionaries, and strategists who challenged the establishment and changed how we interact with the world.
In particular, the FOSSDA Project hopes to uncover and record the stories of the first generation of free and open-source software developers. In the beginning, the movement was started by a group of technical visionaries, such as Richard M. Stallman, who believed that access to information is fundamental to human rights in our digital age. These ideas have since transformed software development, business, and modern society.
To ensure these records don’t fall prey to bitrot, FOSSDA has partnered with Permanent(dot)org to make certain the raw oral histories remain in the public domain and are permanently available.
See https://opensourcewatch.beehiiv.com/p/fossda-preserving-history-opensource-free-software
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