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The COVID-19 pandemic is significantly impacting universities and higher education institutions, reducing budgets and presenting new design challenges that will fundamentally alter how research and…
The Open Technology Fund has previously given money to all sorts of internet freedom projects.
Article: Absorbing DiRT: Tool Directories in the Digital Age
Open source is doing great, but some open-source groups are getting knocked around by the pandemic. That's where the newly formed FOSS Responders come in.
Isn’t it weird that the radically democratic miracle of open-source collaboration is so full of monarchical dictatorships?
ceejbot's talk from JSConfEU 2019. Contribute to ceejbot/economics-of-package-management development by creating an account on GitHub.
When the original BOAI declaration on open access was published, one of its stated aims was to ‘save money and expand the scope of dissemination at the same time’ through open access publishing. The web offered distribution costs that the authors claimed were ‘far lower’ than print publishing and so OA was seen at least … Continue reading "How the academic publishing oligopoly skews debates on the cost of publishing"
Allana Mayer Historically-minded folks will likely have seen the flare-up and fizzle-out of scandal around the USA’s National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) in January. A Washington Pos…
Was the open knowledge commons idea a curse in disguise? Towards sovereign institutions of knowledge
Talks about reenclosure and other threats to open.
The U.S. Office of Management and Budget issued a decision on Friday to close the facility in Seattle's Sand Point neighborhood despite a last-minute plea by senators in Washington, Oregon, Alaska and Idaho.
This is a lightly edited version of a talk I gave at MLA 2020, in a panel organized by Dr. Carrie Johnston and Rennie Mapp, titled “Being Human in DH Project...
The carbon footprint of algorithms must be measured and transparently reported so computer scientists can take an honest and active role in environmental sustainability. In this paper, we take...
ONE REASON TO AUDIT YOUR DIGITAL SHIZ, PEOPLE
Language that can be useful for making a business case for DP, including to pointy-haired bosses.
Steve Klabnik's personal website