My #30DayFOSSChallenge is officially over. It was a great experience diving deeper into #foss and thinking about it, especially trying to test the limits of how feasible going fully foss is for me, and talking to non-tech people about software freedom issues.
I will have a blog post up soon, but I'm still working through my thoughts.
Wikipedia :wikipedia: is a multilingual free online encyclopedia written and maintained by a community of volunteers, known as Wikipedians, through open collaboration and using a wiki-based editing system called MediaWiki -- at least that's what our Wikipedia article says (https://w.wiki/W).
Because today I wanted to send a write up of a COMMON classroom activity to a substitute and had to spend 40 minutes searching through subscription only educator sites, mommy blogs that embed the instructions deep inside of rambling stories to drive engagement and ad revenue, and videos that deliberately withheld key information in order to sell their book!
This was a basic engineering activity that has been done for decades! We don't need 20 people competing to find a way to squeeze profit out of an old idea! We need teachers to work together to make one shared beautiful accessible write up!
#Introduction time! I'm rysiek. On fedi since before it was fedi — I see you, old StatusNet guard!
Did information security and infrastructure for #PanamaPapers journalists, fought #ACTA on the streets and in meetings, helped write the book on #NetNeutrality, started a hackerspace and a half, and wrote a bunch of code.
Media literacy is a human right. Protocols, not platforms. Communities, not customers. User-Authored Works, not user-generated content.