Wayne Mackintosh 🇳🇿🐧 @mackiwg@mastodon.oeru.org
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TIL about https://lichess.org/ , one of the world's most popular chess servers, run entirely on free software by a nonprofit, ad-free, supported by donations with a budget of ~$420K/year according to https://lichess.org/costs
They've been around since 2010.
As awesome as this is to see, imagine how many free/open nonprofit alternatives to Big Tech platforms would exist if, down to the municipal level, we decided to support them with funding & infrastructure.
WOW! 👏 As of today, 998 educators from across the Pacific have registered for #CS4ODFL - If three participants invite a colleague or friend to join - we will be over 1K learners for the course. That's amazing. Late arrivals most welcome - still lots of time to catch up. Here's the rego link: https://mautic.oeru.org/cs4odfl202201
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Wowsers!! 13 people have already submitted Learning Challenge 1! #CS4ODFL 👏 👏
Sending warm greetings from 🇳🇿 to all participants starting the #CS4ODFL course today. Hope you enjoy the learning journey with @deepakprasad who is facilitating the course.
New course: Communication Skills for Open Distance and Flexible Learning #CS4ODFL will launch on 3 Jan 2022. Testing.
Starting work on the "Empowered Digital Teacher for Online Learning" course #EDT4OL This is a capstone course for the Pacific Partnership for Open Distance and Flexible Learning project where we aim to help building skills for school teachers to publish open content using our wiki --> WordPress tool set.
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Michigan Tech University have a dedicated "Open Source" website, that's pretty cool. I hope Universities promoting and showcasing #openSource software and #openHardware becomes more commonplace.
https://opensource.mtu.edu/
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@mackiwg I wish that #OERcampglobal had chosen BBB or Jitsi. Instead they chose Zoom and the link they sent just hangs when I click it.
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I'm struggling to get my head around the concept that the so-called #Decentralized Web Summit is holding an online event on a centralized proprietary platform, with ticketing being done through a different centralized proprietary SaaS platform. (When decentralized, #OpenSource platforms exist for both.)
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/dweb-holiday-fair-dec-2021-meetup-tickets-218423960947
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Congratulations to the new German government coalition for their open source strategy!
https://nextcloud.com/blog/congratulations-to-the-new-german-government-coalition-for-their-open-source-strategy/
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Great stuff. I can say from experience that there's a lot of things going on behind the scenes that aren't mentioned in this paper but which represent a lot of the real value of this work.
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Just found out that my first peer reviewed paper in the educational realm (in the area of Open Educational Resources) has been published: http://www.irrodl.org/index.php/irrodl/article/view/5763/5600 Many thanks to the OER Foundation, my hard-working co-author Claire Goode, and to the good folks at the IRRODL journal for their help in making this happen!
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OK everyone, please please please donate to @conservancy
! I'm so proud of our work and all of the tangible evidence of it (filed a lawsuit! won DMCA exemptions! expanded Outreachy by 27%! Spent $1.7m on paying people to contribute to FOSS!). Help us keep going...
La version française du cours #LiDA103Fr débute le 17 novembre - Inscrivez-vous aujourd'hui : https://oer.nz/lida103fr-21
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I know that all platforms have issues but is it wrong that I feel *so* smug when zoom or other proprietary software has visible issues that make it impossible for some people to participate (I'm dialing in by phone of course)
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RT @comdatasci
Should online communities require accounts? @makoshark & @aaronshaw provide an answer in a new paper that was recently published in the journal Communication Research.
We've put together a short video (below) and blog post (https://blog.communitydata.science/the-hidden-costs-of-requiring-accounts/) that summarize the work.
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What's your primary OS?
Boosts appreciated for sample size :)
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