Notices by Patrick Masson (massonpj@fosstodon.org)

FREE Online Webinar:
Wed, Dec. 11, 11am ET

"The Value of #OpenSource Software"

Dr. Manuel Hoffmann
Laboratory for Innovation Science
Harvard

Data from millions of companies reveals striking numbers that validate what the #OSS community has long known:

- The cost to create popular OSS packages: $4B
- The economic value delivered: $5 - $8.8 trillion
- Without #OSS, corporate software spending would need to triple

Register here:
https://apereo.civicrm.org/civicrm/event/info?id=307&reset=1

#EdTech #HigherEd

At the risk of coming off like a brutal self-promoter, I was honored to be interviewed by @conservancy about supporting their essential work.

You can skip the interview and just go straight to the "DONATE" link. Either way, I hope you share my commitment to helping organizations adopt, extend, and promote software freedom (especially in #EdTech and #HigherEd)

https://sfconservancy.org/blog/2024/dec/05/2024-fundraising-matcher-interview-with-patrick-ma/

#OpenSource #FOSS

Do papers submitted to the @libreoffice #OpenSource Conference need to be in ODT format?

https://conference.libreoffice.org/2024/

I am struck by how outside the "norm" education-derived #opensource projects are, related to funding.

Everyone so far has a commercial orientation, aligned with typical corporate business and revenue models. As such they are emphasizing investors, customers, start-ups, etc.

Also of note is a, perhaps European, emphasis on goverment funding.

I don't think the education sector and the #OSS institutions that produce it, can take advantage of these approaches.

@ow2 #OW2con

Starting session (framed as a debate) on funding #OpenSource software projects and/or foundations at @ow2's #OW2con.

Interesting process were those who speak, then point to someone else from the audience to take their spot on the panel.

#edtech #oss

The open source software produced in #highered is a "by-project" [by-product] of their primary work (research, teaching and learning, academic/administrative computing); the #OpenSource software produced by companies--and many "projects" waiting for investors--is a "product."

The sustainability, support, and contributor models (and motivations) are thus all different... very different.

@ow2 #OW2con

@mattl what are your recommendations for the must-go-to bars, speakeasys, pubs, restaurants in Austin for my nephew and his friends to go to while visiting for a bachelor party?

#PLEASE PLEASE, #schools and #faculty, stop "teaching" #Adobe #Photoshop, #GoogleDocs, #Microsoft #Windows, #Zoom, and other commercial software applications.

You're not providing #students an #education, your providing companies customers.

We never taught Smith-Corona, or Turbo TS40, or Ford Tempo. We taught, respectively, typing, wood shop, and student driving. We should teach word processing, computer technology, and communications.

#K12 #Teaching #HigherEd #EdTech
#ScreemingInTheDark

I'm fretting the #Twitter migration. Many #TwitterPurge victims complain they've lost their flocks of followers, their profiles, presence & influence, their curated content collections & promotional channels…

Many are frustrated they'll have to start over building their brand anew, recapturing their audience here on Mastodon: "Where's my blue checkmark?"

I won't say, please don't come, but please don't use Mastodon the same way you manipulated Twitter.

It's different here, we should be too.