Wayne Mackintosh 🇳🇿🐧 @mackiwg@mastodon.oeru.org

Proud to be working on this project with my colleagues at the OERu @mackiwg @lightweight @simonnewood

https://www.icde.org/knowledge-hub/francophone-oer-project

Welcome to #Inkscape 1.1! We're excited to launch our latest version... with a Welcome dialog, Command Palette, revamped Dialog Docking System & searchable preference options, along with new exporting formats. Download for Linux, Windows or macOS : https://inkscape.org/release/inkscape-1.1/

Today I was pointed to https://litterintelligence.org/ which looks like an attractive and easy-to-navigate web site trying to raise awareness and promote action on litter in New Zealand. I like the combination of education, activism, and citizen science.

Just fleshed this out a bit more at https://davelane.nz/aperitif

Where are some places/communities you see CC licenses being used on software? (Other than Stack Overflow, which is the first one I think of.)

(Yes, boosts appreciated!)

I'm going to share this New Republic article about Gates' influence on access to medicine one more time, because it's so important to critically examine the role of philanthropy.

The Gates Foundation and Gates' philanthropy are, in many ways, the best case scenario for billionaire interventions in public health. Even here, "philanthropy" becomes an extension of the founder's destructive ideology.

Imagine what could be done if we just taxed this wealth properly.

https://newrepublic.com/article/162000/bill-gates-impeded-global-access-covid-vaccines

Let's keep the #GNOME40 celebration going with a brand new release video!
https://youtu.be/vK-SwsWnEmo

Wordpress is now used by 40% of the web.

https://w3techs.com/blog/entry/40_percent_of_the_web_uses_wordpress

Folks I work with in Apia, Samoa, have just put out descriptions for two education technolgists/learning designers... have a look if you're interested in a change of scene!

https://www.unv.org/calls/WSMR000030-9017

https://www.unv.org/calls/WSMR000029-9021

So, this should be terrifying us... and motivating us to research mitigations and then act: https://www.theverge.com/2021/2/24/22297686/browser-extension-blocks-sites-using-google-facebook-microsoft-amazon

Pretty much 4 years ago today, I said the following on my blog:

“I personally moved over to Bitwarden around 6 months ago, following the price rises by LastPass, as well as the fact that they had been purchased by LogMeIn – who have a proven track record of not treating their users very well.”

Kev in 2017 was a very, very wise man.

https://kevq.uk/bitwarden-an-open-source-alternative-to-lastpass/

Will a majority of respondents to this poll correctly guess the majority response to this poll?

OER benefit everyone (not just students)

https://edtechfactotum.com/oer-benefit-everyone-not-just-students/