Org for Ethical SourceThanks to a volunteer translator, Contributor Covenant 3.0 is now available in Hungarian (Magyar), the 7th language for the latest version of the code of conduct. So many thanks to Mukli Krisztián for the amazing work!
Coraline Ada EhmkeRE: https://fosstodon.org/@ethicalsource/116281522659176092
This is a great example of why we don't accept machine translations of Contributor Covenant, by the way. Words matter.
A great annotated diff of Contributor Covenant 3, and a detailed narrative about what went into Yunseo Kim's volunteer Korean translation of the code of conduct:
My first peer-reviewed paper! "Queer(ing) Epistemology through Intersectional Data Science: Relational Knowledge and Affective Queries with TMI-WEB", co-authored with Dr Jess Parris Westbrook, was accepted by the Design Research Society!
The paper will be published in open access format later this year, and is being presented at the DRS conference in Edinburgh in June. You can register at https://drs2026.thedrs.org/home.
"A win for ethical source in open science: TMI-WEB awarded grant by the Open Research Community Accelerator (ORCA)"
https://ethicalsource.dev/blog/tmi-web-grant/
#EthicalSource #opensource #OpenScience #Design #socialccience
Is anyone working on an open data standard/protocol for moving context and history between AI platforms? Is this a path to more data autonomy?
This could be something for FOSS institutions to get behind as a practical contribution to the field. We don't need better definitions, we need that freedom you've been talking about all these years.
django announces their plan for the thoughtful rollout of Contributor Covenant:
https://www.djangoproject.com/weblog/2026/feb/19/2026-coc-update-phase-2/
Kudos to the team for making the governance connection, and we're excited to see how the django community adapts Contributor Covenant to meet their needs.
pmonks (330ppm)For folx interested in #EthicalSource, this little piece of work I commissioned recently might be of interest: https://gist.github.com/pmonks/fdce58caa882c883e14da685a4dab633 #OpenSource #FOSS #AI #DunningKrugerAsAService
Lars Marowsky-Brée 😷It amuses me no end that musicians and artists can come out shouting against their work being used by fascists and murderers and are applauded.
And when one suggests that that might be a good position to take publicly for "us", inevitably someone comes out of the woodwork with "well actually then it would no longer be Free or Open Source because of the four freedoms"
The Hanami project announces that it has upgraded to Contributor Covenant 3!
https://hanamirb.org/blog/2025/09/02/hanami-adopts-contributor-covenant-3-0/
