tag > OpenSource
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Florian Effenberger: LibreOffice Adoption Is Growing Globally:
While it might be unsurprising to some, it is still constantly amazing to me (after 20+ y of OSS) just how sane, heartfelt & creative the open-source community and its leaders are - especially compared to the commercial counterparts (who seem obsessed with "money, control, surveillance, divisions, competition and ego")
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Cube Farm: a Modular, Open Source, Agriculture Platform:
https://www.instructables.com/id/Cube-Farm-a-Modular-Open-Source-Agriculture-Platfo/ -
Scuttlebutt, a decentralized social platform:
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Open Source Underwater Distributed Sensor Network - Robotic platform for water quality sensors inspired by clams: https://hackaday.io/project/90610-open-source-underwater-distributed-sensor-network #OpenSource #Regenerative #Biophilia
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"How to Create a Thriving Global Commons Economy" - by @VasilisKostakis & @mbauwens : https://thenextsystem.org/learn/stories/how-create-thriving-global-commons-economy #P2P #OpenSource #Economics #Regenerative
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"End of the open source agriculture workshop": https://blog.p2pfoundation.net/end-of-the-open-source-agriculture-workshop/2019/06/13 #Regenerative #OpenSource #P2P
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"Reinventing the Small Wind Turbine": https://www.lowtechmagazine.com/2019/06/small-wooden-wind-turbines.html #OpenSource #Regenerative
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Open Source instructions for “Agri-Stick” - a appliance for measuring four agronomic parameters incl. soil temperature & moisture, atmospheric temperature & humidity: https://www.instructables.com/id/Agri-Stick/ #OpenSource #Regenerative #Biomaker
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Blender is Free Software: https://code.blender.org/2019/06/blender-is-free-software/
A love letter to #OpenSource. Thank you @tonroosendaal ! -
"Fabship is an off-grid FabLab, powered by renewable energy and Earthship-inspired design and systems. Fabships enable communities to build resilience and grow autonomy": @fabship http://fabship.cc/ #Regenerative #OpenSource
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"Maker Faire halts operations and lays off all staff": #P2P #OpenSource
https://techcrunch.com/2019/06/07/make-magazine-maker-media-layoffs/A funny world we live in, where there are 100s of highly profitable "shit you really don't need" e-commerce startups, yet an organisation that empowers adults & children to do DYI crafting & science collapses.
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Russian military moves closer to replacing Windows with Astra Linux:
https://www.zdnet.com/article/russian-military-moves-closer-to-replacing-windows-with-astra-linux/ #OS #OpenSource #Military -
Endless Sphere - Electric Vehicle and Technology Forums: https://endless-sphere.com/forums/ #Technology #OpenSource #Regenerative
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Ravelry: https://www.ravelry.com/ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ravelry
A free social networking service, beta-launched in May 2007. It functions as an organizational tool for a variety of fiber arts including knitting, crocheting, spinning, and weaving. Members share projects, ideas, and their collection of yarn, fiber, and tools via various components.
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IEEE Bans Huawei From Peer-Reviewing Papers, Chinese Scientists Quit To Protest:
https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2019/05/ieee-major-science-publisher-bans-huawei-scientists-reviewing-papers #Science #Military #OpenSource -
Awesome Agriculture Awesome: "A curated list of awesome open source technology for agriculture, farming, and gardening": https://github.com/beaorn/awesome-agriculture
I really want to have a github-like service, dedicated exclusively to ecological/regenerative open-source projects. If that sounds interesting to you, lets talk.
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Traditional knowledge: the dilemmas of sharing: http://thackara.com/learning-design/traditional-knowledge-the-dilemmas-of-sharing/
This is why even a wiki would not be the complete answer. Wikis may be peer-to-peer, but they are still media, rather than the real thing. In terms of media platforms, some kind of Yellow Pages or Craig’s List, that connects people who need to know, with people who can help them, is the more promising way to go. Such a person-to-person connection machine would be even more powerful if it were to incorporate user ratings of the knowledge suppliers involved.
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Open source - Europe's battle for basic water rights:
"Fortune magazine predicted in the year 2000, that water was about to become one of the world's great business opportunity. Fortune commented that water promises to be the 21st century, what oil was to the 20th. This means that we'll probably get all the bombing, shooting and invading which has characterised the global struggle for control of the oil
