Mental privacy matters.🌎 Mental privacy is one important cog in a much larger interconnected tech surveillance issue.
#mentalprivacy #ai #digitalcommons #surveillance #climatecrisis #LLM #chatbot
Diego GĂłmez-VenegasInstalling compost.cc at Das Lot in Vienna! The entire installation requires about 130 W (six laptops, two tablets, and a router). The opening is tomorrow at 7:00 pm.
If you are around, check out the exhibition. Even better, join us for the Bring-Your-Device workshop on Saturday, May 9, at 3:00 pm.
https://www.lot.wien/futureterritories
#permaComputing #digitalCommons #mediaArchaeology #mediaTheory
Andrea CallegaroLet's imagine you have an old educational #podcast you’d like to revive.
Does the #Fediverse offer alternative models for #podcasting? Alternative platforms, infrastructures, funding models, or community-driven approaches?
I'm curious about ways of doing podcasting outside the usual ad/platform economy.
#IndieWeb #FOSS #CommunityMedia #Education #LanguageLearning #DigitalCommons #educationalresources
Next Generation Internet📢 The newly established Digital Commons consortium is ramping up its operations with 4 openings. Check out: https://digital-commons-edic.eu/careers/ #opensource #digitalcommons
Leo GagglSome musings around how to deal with the hype. Best to see for yourself and do it with others.
https://gaggl.com/blogs/2026-04-29-ai-open-source-digital-commons/
#digitalcommons #opensource #selfhosting #ai #sovereignByDesign
Don't Let the Asphalt Bury the Garden
I’ve spent 30 years watching tech cycles come and go, from the first dial-up modems in rural Austria to the mesh networks I’m currently stringing across the Australian bush. Each time a “next big thing” arrives, we see the same pattern: a frantic rush to centralise, followed by a slow, painful enclosure of what should have been a common resource. The current noise around AI in open source feels different. It feels heavier. There’s a justified fear that AI-generated code is hollowing out our commons. Maintainers are being buried under a drift of unvetted, mediocre pull requests, while a handful of platform monopolies strip-mine decades of community work to feed their proprietary black boxes.
Sovereign Tech AgencyThe #DigitalCommons #EDIC is building its team. Four roles are now open in Paris:
- Operations Manager
- Programme & Technical Manager
- Ecosystem and Partnerships Manager
- Office, Events & Communications Coordinator
→ https://digital-commons-edic.eu/careers/
Applications are open until 22 May 2026.
As part of the consortium, the Sovereign Tech Agency has been involved from the outset in shaping this European effort to strengthen open digital infrastructure.
simonThe ongoing transformation of universities and higher education through open models. Article by SPARC Europe : « Connecting the Opens (IV): Institutional strategies to embed openness in Higher Education ».
Link to publication: https://zenodo.org/records/19737561
Some excerpts:
Certain universities are now embedding these priorities within comprehensive institutional strategies. A common direction among institutions is consolidating previously fragmented initiatives into more unified frameworks.
As stated by one leader:“University strategy and new digital learning strategy have brought open research, scholarship and education together. University strategy emphasises community, collaboration and impact.”
Strategic planning in this area often revolves around a set of core dimensions that institutionsare beginning to address in a coordinated way.
These include:
- The development of [open] infrastructures
- The strengthening of skills
- The alignment of reward and recognition systems
- The clarification of roles and responsibilities
- The establishment of governance frameworks and standards, alongside the identification of sustainable funding opportunities.
Collaborative development of open-source software across institutions is also emerging as a more efficient and sustainable model.
5 key actions:
1. Advocate for a holistic and integrated "open by design" approach
2. Champion strategic investment in foundational open infrastructure and support
3. Drive cultural change through incentivization and recognition of open practices
4. Prioritise active engagement and co-creation with students
5. Position the institution as a leader in the global open ecosystem
Others are embedding openness within broader institutional transformations, such as digitalisation or data literacy initiatives, recognising itas a core component of the contemporary university.
#openmodels #openscience #openeducation #digitalcommons #opensource #opensoftware #digitalliteracy
Connecting the Opens (IV): Institutional strategies to embed openness in Higher Education
This item is the fourth in a series exploring how university leaders across Europe are connecting open science and open education. Based on interviews conducted by SPARC Europe, the series aims to inspire more leaders to connect the opens and support institutions in addressing complex challenges through an integrated open knowledge framework. This item explores how institutions are turning their vision of openness into concrete strategies to embed it across research and education. It highlights how universities are bringing together open science and open education, aligning governance, incentives and infrastructure, and strengthening collaboration both within institutions and with wider society. It also shows a broader shift from fragmented initiatives to more coordinated, system-wide approaches, where leadership, community engagement and flexible implementation pathways are key to building more connected, participatory and sustainable open knowledge systems.
Digital NomadAI and the Digital Commons: Don't Let the Asphalt Bury the Garden
I’ve spent 30 years watching tech cycles come and go, from the first dial-up modems in rural Austria to the mesh networks I’m currently stringing across the Australian bush. Each time a “next big thing” arrives, we see the same pattern: a frantic rush to centralise, followed by a slow, painful enclosure of what should have been a common resource. The current noise around AI in open source feels different. It feels heavier. There’s a justified fear that AI-generated code is hollowing out our commons. Maintainers are being buried under a drift of unvetted, mediocre pull requests, while a handful of platform monopolies strip-mine decades of community work to feed their proprietary black boxes.https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://gaggl.com/blogs/2026-04-29-ai-open-source-digital-commons/
Don't Let the Asphalt Bury the Garden
I’ve spent 30 years watching tech cycles come and go, from the first dial-up modems in rural Austria to the mesh networks I’m currently stringing across the Australian bush. Each time a “next big thing” arrives, we see the same pattern: a frantic rush to centralise, followed by a slow, painful enclosure of what should have been a common resource. The current noise around AI in open source feels different. It feels heavier. There’s a justified fear that AI-generated code is hollowing out our commons. Maintainers are being buried under a drift of unvetted, mediocre pull requests, while a handful of platform monopolies strip-mine decades of community work to feed their proprietary black boxes.
🇸🇽 Going back to (Filipino) school. This week I did an introduction to open models for IT students (and staff) at the College of Arts and Sciences in Inabanga, Bohol.
My intervention took place as part of the Bridging Youth Through Technology Empowerment (BYTE) Training Program initiated recently by the CVISNet foundation that aims to bring some fundamental concepts of digital technologies: https://www.projectbyte.org/
A sharing of knowledge over 2 days with 2h30 of truly formal education:
- 1h of theory during the first day where I try to bring an overview of these different openness movements, explaining that these sharing and collaboration practices around digital resources are emerging and growing in importance in a variety of fields. As they are IT students and the BYTE program trains them with Linux, I went through the history of open source software with this philosophical conflict between copyright and copyleft, key moments like Richard Stallman's launch of the free software movement leading to the Cathedral and the Bazaar and emergence of "open source" terminology, introducing them briefly the controversial @osi and their "Open Source Definition". To let them understand that the software running the majority of computers in the world was initially an IT student project! (cf https://open-models.org/content/history.html)
- Followed the next day by a workshop of 1h30 to start an open software library around the @OpenAlex API. A moment to let them experiment the setting of open software production around a shared repository for the class while using an open science tool to explore these ways to access research. A way to truly live this complementarity between open models. (Workshop guidelines: https://open-models.org/workshops/openalex-library.html)
As foundational but underexplained topics of digital technologies, we open discussion around how we could introduce more knowledge related to open models within curriculums, whether it's the BYTE curriculum or the ones of the school.
Part of the challenge is about training pedagogical teams to let them truly understand these dynamics to enable them to slowly integrate and adapt these concepts more autonomously into their educational work. Will probably go back to this Bohol island to try to empower them while continuing to build this knowledge on open models and digital commons to be able to rely on it! (https://open-models.org)
Trying currently to connect with universities and schools in the Philippines.
In tech, there is this common idea of trying to build the next Google. I invited them instead to dream bigger and try to build the next Wikipedia, the next Linux or the next OpenAlex!
#openmodels #openeducation #openscience #opensource #opensoftware #digitalcommons #philippines
Happy to share that our project compost.cc will have its first presentation in the Future Territories exhibition at Das Lot in Vienna on May 7–10
https://en.lot.wien/futureterritories
We'll run a Bring-Your-Own-Device workshop on Saturday 9 at 3pm. If you are in Vienna and have a spare device (an old computer, laptop, Android tablet or cell phone), join us and walk out running your own compost.cc node.
#Permacomputing #DigitalCommons #Infrastructure #MediaArts #DigitalHumanities #MediaTheory
