2/ The main qualifications are strong interests in (1) staying on top of what's happening in the world of #OpenAccess, #OpenScience, and related topics, (2) sharing what you learn, (3) recruiting, training, and motivating the crowd for a crowd-sourced project, and (4) applying for grants as needed to enhance OATP and/or TagTeam.
1/ I'm seeking expressions of interest from nonprofit organizations to take over the Open Access Tracking Project (#OATP, @oatp) and the open-source software (#TagTeam) on which it runs.
Details in this Google doc:
https://bit.ly/TransferOATP
Contact me <peter.suber@gmail.com> if you have any questions or any level of interest.
#OpenAccess #OpenScience #OpenSource #ScholComm
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If I were to go to foss-north, April 27-28 in Göteborg, Sweden, are there people I should meet in Göteborg or Stockholm? I could give a talk to a user group, company, or similar. Or I could do some Rust training. Or just have coffee.
I've offered a talk to foss-north on Radicle CI and Ambient. I could do that, or something else. I'm working on a talk about having been a programmer for 40 years. I could talk about the early days of Linux.
I have surprisingly few contacts in Sweden. Anyone?
You prob know this already, but if you duck-search, you can go to a slightly different entry point at https://noai.duckduckgo.com to do web searches without AI slop dumping on you.
I see they've dressed up the landing page there! Now more obviously non-AI. I mean, it's a selling feature, so yeah, go to town guys.
(if you still google things, consider the duck search! it's worked well for me for years, and the non-ai version is a nice step forward).
LLM
Good post on OSS licenses & LLMs: https://writings.hongminhee.org/2026/01/histomat-foss-llm/
I like this bit:
> I want to live in a future where powerful AI models exist and are accessible to everyone, not just to corporations that can afford to train them. It should be a world where the knowledge encoded in millions of F/OSS projects becomes part of a commons rather than privatized into proprietary models—where if my code helps train a model, that model is available for me and everyone else to use, study, modify, and share.
sensitive media
Update. In my previous post I linked to June 2020 advice from #AmnestyInternational on how to protect your phone from police searches when you attend a protest.
https://www.amnesty.org/en/latest/campaigns/2020/06/tactics-to-secure-phone-before-a-protest/
For something more recent, see this Nov 2024 advice from @eff.
https://ssd.eff.org/module/attending-protest
What happened to Renee Nicole Good is not an anomaly or a rare phenomenon.
The only unusual factor is that she was white.
A Black man named Keith Porter was shot & killed by ICE on New Year’s Eve.
Marimar Martinez was shot five times by an ICE officer in Chicago who went on to brag about leaving seven holes in her body. She survived but has a hole in her arm forever.
Silverio Villegas González was shot dead in Franklin Park Illinois when he panicked and tried to run.
Then there’s the more than 30 people who’ve died in the camps.
No accountability. No punishment.
Keep speaking out. Let’s make sure this officer is held responsible.
#abolishice #ice #uspol #minneapolis #fascism #immigration #reneenicolegood
“Unfortunately, immigrants and noncitizens should now assume that anything they share publicly on social media might be surveilled by the government and potentially used against them,” EFF’s Lisa Femia told Borderless Magazine. https://borderlessmag.org/2026/01/08/ice-social-media-surveillance-immigration-applications-enforcement-chicago/
Update. Yesterday's #ICE killing of #ReneeNicoleGood is getting massive public attention 𝗯𝗲𝗰𝗮𝘂𝘀𝗲 𝗶𝘁 𝘄𝗮𝘀 𝗿𝗲𝗰𝗼𝗿𝗱𝗲𝗱.
Please bring your phone to demonstrations!
Here's some advice on reducing the risks.
https://www.amnesty.org/en/latest/campaigns/2020/06/tactics-to-secure-phone-before-a-protest/
Do worry about the risks, but don't forget the risks of leaving law-enforcement violence unrecorded.
If you're the kind of hacker that likes news you might peruse our latest post about the infrastructure update: https://f-droid.org/2025/12/30/a-faster-heart-for-f-droid.html
But before that, here's a small poll for you.
Where do you think the #FDroid build servers, that build and verify 200 apps per week, are located?
I suggest you support Standard Ebooks 📚
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See what’s free to read on January 1 👇
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if social media has taught me anything... i’m unaware of it
Axon is testing facial recognition technology in its body-worn cameras with a Canadian police department. This dangerous expansion of surveillance tech should alarm every community. https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2025/12/axon-tests-face-recognition-body-worn-cameras