Michael Downey πΊπ³ @downey@floss.social
FLOSS.social admin. Director of Community, DIAL #OpenSource Center at United Nations Foundation. LibreHealth steering cmte, OSUOSL adv brd, OSI advocate circle.
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A few folks have asked how they can support the expenses of running the FLOSS.social #Mastodon instance. There are not a lot of expenses right now (β¬5/month) but if you're interested in chipping in, you can now head to https://liberapay.com/FLOSS.social to help support our online home. π
Thanks!
Open source's nature is to fade into the background and go unnoticed except by those whose work touches it directly. It is the plankton of computing. We all breathe, but few of us stop to think about where the oxygen is coming from.
-- "Producing Open Source Software" by Karl Fogel
Reclaiming RSS
βBefore Twitter, before algorithmic timelines filtered our reality for us, before surveillance capitalism, there was RSS: Really Simple Syndication β¦ As we move away from the centralised web to the peer web, itβs time to rediscover, re-embrace, and reclaim RSS.β
A short glimpse of the awesome interns we have working on projects through my day job as part of #GoogleSummerOfCode & #Outreachy ... "The Power of Community: 23 summer interns bring impact & support to DIAL Open Source Center projects"
#FreeSoftware #OpenSource #GSoC
Photo: Matthew Dillon CC-BY
"Open source has been such an incredible force for quality and community exactly because it's not been de ned in market terms. In market terms, most open source projects should never have had a chance."
β David Heinemeier Hansson, Ruby on Rails
Via Ford Foundation's "Roads & Bridges"
"The beauty of standing up for your rights is others see you standing and stand up as well."
- Cassandra Duffy
#quotes
"It is more noble to give yourself completely to one individual than to labor diligently for the salvation of the masses."
- Dag Hammarskjold
#quotes
On the heels of closing applications for our $150k USD grants for #OpenSource "dirty jobs" last Friday ... today we're announcing a new $900,000 grant purse for #ICT4D #FLOSS projects' strategic work. Official announcements coming later today, preview now at http://www.osc.dial.community/
"He who stops being better, stops being good."
- Oliver Cromwell
#quotes
On the heels of closing applications for our $150k USD grants for #OpenSource "dirty jobs" last Friday ... today we're announcing a new $900,000 grant purse for #ICT4D #FLOSS projects' strategic work. Official announcements coming later today, preview now at http://www.osc.dial.community/
Get a job! #OpenSource technical project manager needed by a great org: https://opentechstrategies.com/#jobs
#freesoftware
Another work week in the books. Ready to spend an entire weekend at home!
"There is only one admirable form of the imagination: the imagination that is so intense that it creates a new reality, that it makes things happen."
- Sean O'Faolain
#quotes
"I don't feel that an atmosphere of debate and total disagreement and argument is such a bad thing. It makes for a vital and alive field."
- Clifford Green
#quotes
"Rugged individualism, a cherished value in American society, can cloud our vision, causing us to forget that leaders ultimately serve others."
- Delorese Ambrose
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"Travel changes you. As you move through this life and this world you change things slightly, you leave marks behind, however small. And in return, life β and travel β leaves marks on you. Most of the time, those marks β on your body or on your heart β are beautiful. Often, though, they hurt."
- Anthony Bourdain
#quotes
"He who stops being better, stops being good."
- Oliver Cromwell
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Free t-shirts for those of us in the USA who were using #GitLab before everyone started #MovingToGitLab ... Act fast! #OpenSource #FreeSoftware
https://about.gitlab.com/2018/06/08/gitlab-original-t-shirt/
Today, we're opening up the great library of source code https://www.softwareheritage.org/2018/06/07/opening-the-door/
Live from @unesco headquarters in Paris.
@swheritage @rdicosmo @webmink
Do you use #GoogleForms, #SurveyMonkey or similar services?
Are you happy with your data, and your users' data, being exploited by third parties for commercial purposes such as shadow profiling?
There are #Free #OpenSource alternatives which let you control your data and offer your users privacy, which you can self-host or use online as a service:
