Notices by Michael Downey 🚩 (downey@floss.social)

🇨🇵 Who do we know in the Fediverse based in or near #Paris #France and working on #OpenSource strategy, policy, etc.? Bonus points if a funder or if in government of some kind.

:boost_love: #boostsAppreciated

#askFedi #FreeSoftware #FLOSS #FOSS

:flag_un: Had a good meeting today about our #UN systemwide OSPO teams' plans to bring the world's #OpenSource community back to UNHQ in #NewYork again this summer. We got a ton of great feedback that we've been able to integrate into this year's plans.

Still a few things to be approved, but should be an even bigger and better event than last year. More soon.

🎉 Our team is excited to start our work building national-level OSPOs to support responsible, sustainable scaling of #OpenSource for public services. First up, #Trinidad and #Tobago - with more to come. Read more:

https://www.undp.org/digital/news/new-open-source-programme-office-trinidad-and-tobago-sets-out-catalyze-digital-public-services

#OSPO #TT #FreeSoftware #FOSS #FLOSS

Open Steamroller Initiative

#OSI #OpenSource #AI #OpenSourceAI #OSAID

Comparing it to #OpenSource Software, the head of the #OSI says:

"#AI needs similar freedom to flourish."

Except that the Free Software & Open Source movements were (until recently!) not about the freedom of technology or its makers. It was all about the needs & liberation of those using that technology.

Now the very group self-charged with protecting OSS weaken it.

IMHO the disappointing #OSAID catastrophe is a great example of what happens when you de-center everyday people from strategy.

🇺🇳 Come work with our (fully remote) #OpenSource team at the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP)! We are looking for an early-career person with hands-on #FOSS community experience and (preferably!) experience working with the public sector and all that entails.

🤝🏽 Help us support country governments in setting up new OSPOs to help them embrace & integrate #FreeSoftware into their public services.

🌍 Folks in #Africa are strongly encouraged to apply! :boost_love:

https://estm.fa.em2.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/CandidateExperience/en/sites/CX_1/job/22575

@onepict The only thing that makes OSI de facto stewards of anything is the community legitimacy they used to have.

@onepict Somewhere (LWN?) I saw that there's a group forming of those willing to build something better than OSI:

https://opensourcedeclaration.org/index-en-us.html

Software Freedom @conservancy: "Open Source AI Definition Erodes the Meaning of 'Open Source'"

"With this announcement, we have reached the moment that software freedom advocates have feared for decades: the definition of “open source” — with which OSI was entrusted — now differs in significant ways from the views of most software freedom advocates."

https://sfconservancy.org/blog/2024/oct/31/open-source-ai-definition-osaid-erodes-foss/

#OpenSource #FreeSoftware #OpenSourceAI #AI #OSI #OSAID

For a moment, imagining if #Mastodon had released literally ANY new & useful admin/moderation tools whatsoever in the past several years....

#MastoAdmin #FediAdmin

"No one should be at the mercy of an algorithm they don’t control, which was not designed to safeguard their interests."

— António Guterres, United Nations Secretary-General

Read more in the UN's brand-new "Global Principles for Information Integrity", announced today: https://www.un.org/en/information-integrity

#UN #Fediverse #disinformation #misinformation #TrustAndSafety

@joeo10 Why not viable? Both my Blu-Ray 4K UHD player and Kodi server can output HDMI without problem...

Yes, you can still buy 4K TV's that are not "Smart" (surveillance). They're called "commercial displays" and as a bonus, they're more durable, too.

Prices start at $550 US for a 55-inch Samsung model.

#SurveillanceCapitalism #SmartTV #TV

https://www.bhphotovideo.com/c/products/Flat-Panel-Displays/ci/16073/N/4205668456?sort=PRICE_LOW_TO_HIGH&filters=fct_display-size_4953%3A55in%7C65in

@tokyo_0 https://vid.puffyan.us/watch?v=jUCu5e_fyeg

@tokyo_0 Reminds me also of Google+.

@tokyo_0 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SixDegrees.com

@tokyo_0 It really blows my mind that the Mastodon project has not documented these types of critical knowledge by now.

:microsoft: ➡️ :matrix: It's a Big Freaking Deal when we can move any #UnitedNations organization away from #Microsoft.

The system-wide IT shop UNICC has announced its move to #Matrix:

https://www.techradar.com/pro/the-united-nations-ditches-big-tech-in-a-bid-for-security

@tokyo_0 It's arguable that most unauthorized "relay bots" are actually copyright infringing.

@darnell @hosting

#Meta going hard with "do as we say, not as we do" federation policy

#Threads