#softwareburger — Public Fediverse posts

@Cochise this is one of the problems I came up with the concept of #SoftwareBurger to solve.

@lightweight @daviding this is something I imagine the #SoftwareBurger concept helping with, in that it could help hackers working on related projects (like media hosting packages) combine their efforts on back-end components, while making sure each front end serves a specific subset of users (eg photographers wanting a public web gallery and simple editing, or groups wanting to host a range of media on a shared interest)

@adfeno @adfeno @wilbr @bob Snowdrift is a great project, but it's a fairly traditional crowdfunding site, with a libre focus. My friends project aims to solve the problem of funding critical common components that get no public attention, and often little developer awareness, because they always bundled inside other projects. #SoftwareBurger could contribute somewhat to raising awareness (in theory).

@wilbr @bob as an aside, I have been throwing around a concept I'm calling #SoftwareBurger that aims to create a libre database of software/ service dependencies, and a way of visualizing them to help people understand how dependencies and #FreeCode re-use work, see:
https://mastodon.nzoss.nz/@strypey/100776768169524398

So what if we had a website that visualized any given software package as a #SoftwareBurger, showing the stack of files and dependencies that package is made of as the layers of ingredients? Different kinds of ingredients could different colours, so that files created for that burger were one colour, and external dependencies were a different colour. Clicking on any dependency layer takes you to the burger for that package, and so on. Burgers all the way down to the nuts and bolts.

Announcing a new #disintermedia project idea; #SoftwareBurger. There's an old saying that you don't want to see how the burger (or the sausage) is made. But that's what #PeerProduction is all about! Yet, because #FreeCode burgers are often made out of other free code burgers, or used in other free code burgers, and sometimes even used in proprietary burgers, it can be very confusing for people new to the field to understand how all the different burgers fit together.