as an establishment clause-loving USian, I was thinking about #religion and public life this Easter Monday

I'm always kinda scandalized by countries that have an official religion, where the liturgical year affects public accommodations, etc.

I found this Pew report on countries that have official or preferred religions, but it seems a little modest in its conclusions

anyone have good readings on religion and public life, esp in liberal democracies?

http://www.pewforum.org/2017/10/03/many-countries-favor-specific-religions-officially-or-unofficially/

wait: CC licenses expire after you die, right, so your work is just in the public domain? or do the stipulations of CC licenses persist after death? (if so, when do those expire? ever?)

this seems like it should be both obvious and an easy thing to nail down, but I'm having trouble finding any good discussion of the question... is there a #librarian here who could enlighten me?

#openacces

Could someone recommend something on open acces vs traditional editorial practices in academia?

Books, papers, news articles, anything. If it is from the last two years, better.

(though I tremble to ask, a bit)

what's going on with #markdown these days? have any dialects become dominant, or consolidated?

I'm pretty happy doing most things in #org, but I've been curious

Hey Mastodons, I hear you like open source and federation, so I'd like to tell you about https://gettogether.community/ an open source, federated(*) event planning service similar to Meetup

It's free to use, and while it's still very early development it is live! Try it yourself, share it with your friends, start a team ahd have a Get Together! #gettogether

* Federation is simple and minimal, any help would be most welcomed. Source code is at https://github.com/GetTogetherComm/GetTogether https://mastodon.cloud/media/cPwAJ8QWw5m9yjpJqQk

anyone know of good mapping tools?

in particular, if you wanted to produce a map you could use in a book rather than online. any suggestions?

(for a colleague)

Some people may have heard me talk about Uncanny Echo earlier. Well, the first Issue is out now--and it's free! Please share liberally and enjoy :)

Every month--via a Patreon that I will launch in January--there will be a new Issue. All of these Issues are tied to either an Uncanny event or the echo of one. Creating a larger meta-narrative as the players work together to create an emergent story that slowly unfurls.

http://www.drivethrurpg.com/product/228854/Uncanny-Echo-Issue-0