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RE: https://henshaw.social/@jon/116523273574110736
Terry is on point, again. I recently put together some slides for a 30-year career and open-source webtech retrospective for students and had all these same thoughts. Any tour of the protocol layer will uncover the high point of nerd civilization. Open, uncaptured, not-owned, and load-bearing. The challenge is to get more people into this, especially the young people who resonate with open and maybe awkward but not enshittifiable tech.
đź’ˇ What is free and open source software? Why does it matter and what is at stake if the foundations crumble? Is Open Access the way forward?
"I do believe that the balance is tipped in favour of the #OpenAccess movement... That is not to say we can be complacent, only that the Principles of #OpenScience are better aligned with the nature of #DigitalCommunication than the incumbent publishers protecting closed access..."
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We’re sitting down with Alec Smecher, PKP’s Associate Director for Development, who will help demystify some of the key tenets of the free and open source software landscape.
hey! do you know things? do you wanna learn things? (i hope the answer to both those things is yes)
the other day, I offered on here that i would be happy to teach folks some basic web and terminal stuff. other people picked up the idea, also saying they'd be happy to teach!
so, because i have too much free time and not enough enrichment in my enclosure, it's a simple website now.
introducing fediLearns: https://fedilearns.fyi (edited name and domain)
want to be involved? send me some real basic info (fedi handle, what you want to share, title for your listing, category) and i'll put it on the site! and of course, share the site, either via this post or your own. I'm using the #fediSkillshares hashtag :)
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edit: use #fediLearns ! turns out skillshare is an actual real company that I totally forgot about so I've adjusted a smidge. plus we have an actual domain now so I'm matching the domain :)
RE: https://mstdn.social/@aworkinglibrary/116449244060099903
Professionalism is not automatonism; it has room for your freak flags and vulnerabilities to fly — at least in a healthy society.
"AI" has now joined the big mess of polarized topics that are too disconnected from reality for most people to be worth discussing. It's too bad.
As usual, I feel all camps are wrong, but each has its own special insights, and I think most people agree with that — not in some wishy-washy way — they just perceive it's not safe, or even forbidden to say so, and not worth the effort to try to work out the kinks.
Evan Prodromou
Public Knowledge Project
Edmonton Bike Coalition
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