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  1. Jun 2023
  2. May 2023
    1. Databricks is a US company that released Dolly 2.0 an open source LLM.

      (I see little mention of stuff like BLOOM, is that because it currently isn't usable, US-centrism or something else?)

  3. Aug 2022
    1. FeedWordPress is an open-source Atom/RSS aggregator for the WordPress blog publishing platform. You set up feeds that you choose, and FeedWordPress syndicates posts from those sources into your WordPress posts table, where they can be displayed by your WordPress templates like any other post — but with additional meta-data, so that your templates can properly attribute the post to the source it came from. FeedWordPress was originally developed because I needed a more flexible replacement for Planet to use at some aggregator sites that I administered. You can use FeedWordPress to create aggregator sites that bring together posts from many different sources, using the WordPress templating engine to display posts from all around the web. Or you can use it to bring together activity from your blogs, social networks and other online services, into a Lifestream with all your online activity in one place. FeedWordPress is designed with flexibility, ease of use, and ease of configuration in mind. You’ll need a working installation of WordPress (version 4.5 or later), and the ability to add plugins to your WordPress environment, either using WordPress’s Add Plugin feature or SFTP/FTP uploads. The ability to create cron jobs on your web host is helpful but not required.

      An alternative to other forms of RSS and Atom aggregation to a WordPress site.

  4. Apr 2021
    1. Abstract: karena anda perlu memberi contoh untuk publik di indonesia, maka sepertinya dalam abstrak perlu disisipkan kata kunci "open source solution" atau "python" dan "open data".

  5. Mar 2021
    1. Open source code library for building innovative e-learning that is accessible, usable, interoperable, mobile-friendly and multilingual. Based on the Web Experience Toolkit (WET) and bootstrap. This collaborative open source project is led by the Canada School of Public Service, Government of Canada.
  6. Aug 2020
    1. A more compelling vision, grounded in a materialist analysis of the conditions of production, would be a world where no one needs to get paid for these contributions because their material needs are taken care of through other means.

      Absolutely. The argument is always "how will creators get paid" and if they don't get paid, "why would they create?" but this completely misses the point. Creators don't create to get paid, they create to create. Payment is a nice side effect of creation (sometimes). It would be really neat to see a UBI situation where creators are freed up to do what drives them instead of what they need to do to pay the bills.

  7. Apr 2020
    1. Running the example code with python Run like this: cd vosk-api/python/example wget https://github.com/alphacep/kaldi-android-demo/releases/download/2020-01/alphacep-model-android-en-us-0.3.tar.gz tar xf alphacep-model-android-en-us-0.3.tar.gz mv alphacep-model-android-en-us-0.3 model-en python3 ./test_simple.py test.wav To run with your audio file make sure it has proper format - PCM 16khz 16bit mono, otherwise decoding will not work. You can find other examples of using a microphone, decoding with a fixed small vocabulary or speaker identification setup in python/example subfolder
    2. Vosk is a speech recognition toolkit. The best things in Vosk are: Supports 8 languages - English, German, French, Spanish, Portuguese, Chinese, Russian, Vietnamese. More to come. Works offline, even on lightweight devices - Raspberry Pi, Android, iOS Installs with simple pip3 install vosk Portable per-language models are only 50Mb each, but there are much bigger server models available. Provides streaming API for the best user experience (unlike popular speech-recognition python packages) There are bindings for different programming languages, too - java/csharp/javascript etc. Allows quick reconfiguration of vocabulary for best accuracy. Supports speaker identification beside simple speech recognition.
    3. Kaldi API for offline speech recognition on Android, iOS, Raspberry Pi and servers with Python, Java, C# and Node
  8. Dec 2018
  9. Jun 2018
    1. Following the history of information technology and the massive trend towards open source, wecan see that democratizing information is the natural next step in the incessant trend to opensource, and thus the next big opportunity for innovation.
  10. Apr 2018
    1. “The number of moving parts is so vast, and several of them are under the control of different groups. There’s no way you could ever pull it together into an integrated system in the same way as you can in a single commercial product with, you know, a single maniac in the middle.”

      While there are indeed many moving parts modern Version Control Systems take care of that properly and automatically. The idea of a Benevolent dictatorship dictating the course of the software is not wrong, but it's been shown that it limits the software itself, no matter how smart or good the dictator is, he/she will never be able to think about every aspect and possible applications of the software. And considering this is a tool for research and experimentation, limiting the tool on purpose is not a very good idea, if you ask me. EVEN THEN, an open-source model leaves space for a Benevolent dictatorship (just as Linux and Google does for many of its FOSS projects), so that isn't really an argument against an open-source non-commercial developing model, in the worst case scenario.

  11. Feb 2018
    1. A better marketing plan for your open source software project The history and evolution of marketing in open source demonstrates a need for new approaches.

      marketing for open source

  12. Sep 2017
    1. A commercial/proprietary vendor borrows funding, setting that borrowed funding against potential future revenue; an open-source community pools present capacity to create a sustainable future.

      The roadmap differences between proprietary and open/community source.

    2. the fact that open-source software is the best guarantor of open standards

      while I agree, can we substantiate this claim?

  13. Aug 2017
  14. May 2017
  15. Sep 2016
    1. We are unapologetic tinkerers who neither invent the wheel, nor are satisfied with the wheels already at our disposal.

      More and more, I come back to this as the core philosophy underpinning all I do in education.

  16. Jul 2016
    1. What is necessary, however, is that enough investment be put into presentation that newcomers can get past the initial obstacle of unfamiliarity.

      "Investment" being the key term, here...difficult judging how much time to invest in documentation and presentation, as opposed to continuing to develop the application.

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  17. May 2016
    1. Hence Linux, hence Wikipedia. Because these communities could grow and collaborate without geographic constraint, major work was done at significantly lower cost and often zero price.

      I would argue this was a mistake which we are now paying for structurally.

      If Linux was licensed such that derivative profitable use payed equity to the contributors to Linux, than many more people would share in the profits of Google, Facebook, Amazon, Rackspace, and so many more. If you take Google as an example, the company earns ~4.5M$ in profit per employee, of course 80% of their infrastructure is free software. Now imagine that each project on github was wired up using microtransaction systems and a system for assigning equity to those who contribute to the source code. Then as for-profit use of the application generates microtransactions that revenue is split by the current equity distribution to the equity holders.

      This distribution of revenue would allow for a hybrid between the open and distributed, also a more sovereign participation model of open source and the benefits of economic integration rather than simple exposure to economic exploitation.

  18. Feb 2014
    1. Think how much could be saved if new foundation grants begin requiring interoperability with a set of core community source projects.

      making interoperability a requirement for the receipt of a grant

    2. Other institutions can spend nothing and download the full, free software from the Sakai Project, but they will not have had any influence in the evolution of the software, nor will they have gained the considerable skills from inter-institutional knowledge-sharing.

      Influence and skills are benefits to contributing financially and in-kind to an open source project

    3. Ineffective governance of projects, unproductive debates over technology nuances, or failure to sustain an IT strategy over multiple years could all impede community source success.

      risks: behaviors that threaten community source success

    4. If partnering for software development were easy, it would be the norm today. It is not easy. It requires a cooperative mindset, disciplined choices among staff, and leaders’ consistent vision that the value of partnering over the long term exceeds the easy short-term gains of defecting to local priorities.

      partnering is hard

    5. the first challenge for participants in a community source project is to find like-minded partners who share a similar vision and timeline.

      find like-minded partners who share similar vision and timeline

    6. If the community source model proves viable, it will do so because it is an economically efficient coordinating mechanism for software investments in higher education as an industry. An analysis of any historical software system—online card catalogs, Web-based registration, course management systems—over a five-year period will reveal that individual institutions separately invested hundreds of millions of dollars in home-grown or commercial software. Can that flow of higher education resources be harnessed to create better economics and shared innovation outcomes for everyone?

      takeaways: community source needs to be an economically efficient coordinating mechanism for software investments. instead of each institution separately investing, these resources can be harnessed to create better economics and shared innovation outcomes for everyone

    1. When I organized the Freeware Summit (later known as the Open Source Summit) in 1998, it was because I recognized that there were multiple communities like that, that their leaders had never met in person, and would benefit from talking about common problems and shaping a common story. And being a media company, we organized a press conference at the end of the day to get that story out. And sure enough, two months later, Linus Torvalds was on the cover of Forbes , with full-page pictures inside of Larry Wall, Richard Stallman, Brian Behlendorf, and others.

      didn't realize "freeware" was used for a bit