Michael Downey 🇺🇳 @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 (€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. 🙂
Thanks!
"stop using the mbti. it's as accurate as astrology"
how about
we let people
use what they relate to and find accurate for something as ever-changing and non-scientific as personality
just let people describe themselves how they want
stop being so boring thanks
Looking for a break from the heatwave? come and join us on July 12th for our meet up, @eliheuer will give a talk covering history & future of free software font editors. RSVP: https://opencollective.com/opensourcedesign/events/nyc-osd-meetup-371ev … #opensourcedesign #opensource #nyc
I love summer in #Portland.
"Choosing proprietary tools and services for your free software project ultimately sends a message to downstream developers and users of your project that freedom of all users—developers included—is not a priority."
— Matt Lee on #GitHub vs. #GitLab in Linux Journal, July 2018
https://www.linuxjournal.com/content/git-your-july-2018-issue-linux-journal-now-available
@mastohost Curious, any chance of implementing standard strong Content Security Policy (CSP) headers in shared hosting? Thanks for all you do!
Example: https://observatory.mozilla.org/analyze/floss.social
So floss.social crossed 5,000 statuses this week, hooray! Please tell you friends and colleagues that care about #FreeSoftware & #OpenSource and encourage them to join us. Not in any hurry to scale, but it's fun to have a community of like-minded folks.
🎉
Resistance is futile
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
“Before Twitter, before algorithmic timelines filtered our reality for us, before surveillance capitalism, there was RSS: Really Simple Syndication … As we move away from the centralised web to the peer web, it’s time to rediscover, re-embrace, and reclaim RSS.”
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."
– 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
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