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.

#EthicalSource #OpenSource #OpenScience #Queering

"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.

#ai #opensource #ethicalsource

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.

#EthicalSource #ContributorCovenant

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"

#OpenSource #EthicalSource #OpenSourceCommunity

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/

#EthicalSource #ContributorCovenant

Is there a resource for locating ethical companies/products which accounts for as many ethical concerns as possible, all in one place? Eg, palm oil, apartheid, fascism, surveillance capitalism, animal welfare, AI, big tech, and so on, and so on, and so on. It's exhausting trying to keep up, and it's starting to feel like there are no good options.

Or is this something worth building?

#EthicalSource #EthicalConsumer

The team behind the new Contributor Covenant website faced a challenge: how to make adoption easy, without making it thoughtless.

Our new builder tool slows adoption to the speed of trust with specific prompts for communities to customize their reporting and enforcement guidelines, and directs adopters to resources and guides from industry experts on codes of conduct.

Learn more at https://www.contributor-covenant.org/

#EthicalSource #opensource #OpenSourceCommunity #CodesOfConduct #ContributorCovenant