David Ing @daviding@scholar.social

I'm moving my primary tooting to https://qoto.org/@daviding , which is a more science-oriented Mastodon instance.

I hope to see you over there!

Canadian government Dec. 7 travel advisory "Exercise a high degree of caution in France due to the current elevated threat of terrorism." Not news that I would have expected to see on #CBCNewsworld https://travel.gc.ca/destinations/france

In licensing content, I have heard of a model release, but not a property release. For commercial purposes, a Creative Commons licensor should know about his or her responsibility.

The lighting of the Eiffel Tower is a protected work. https://www.pixelrockstar.com/use-eiffel-tower-photo-wordpress/

Panel on #UnifyToronto Land Use Summit #DrawdownProject meeting #6 of 7 sectors. #lmiresk, #AndrewJamesKnox for #transitionTO, #KevinBest, #RyanNess for #TRCA_News, #SeanThomas for #UofTForestry. Sketching by #playthink , emphasis on relevance from global study to action in Greater #Toronto (Unify Toronto, #Drawdown Toronto, Friends House, Lowther Avenue, Toronto, Ontario) 20181128

Organizations need #communityship, as naturally-engaging #leadership in collective interests, says #HenryMintzberg.
> ... beyond leadership is a profound sense of communityship. [....] Effective organizations are communities of human beings, not collections of human resources.

[....] You feel the energy in the place, the commitment of its people, their collective interest in what they do. They don’t have to be formally empowered because they are naturally engaged.

http://www.mintzberg.org/blog/communityship-beyond-leadership

Washington suffers from #Gerontocracy; Ottawa is 1-1/2 #Generations younger.

> The average age of Washington’s leaders – Mr. Trump, Ms. Pelosi, Mr. McConnell - is 75. In Canada, the three major party leaders - Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, Conservative Leader Andrew Scheer and NDP Leader Jagmeet Singh – have an average age of 41.That’s a 34 year spread.

"Gerontocracy rules in Washington. Fresher minds prevail in Ottawa" | #LawrenceMartin | Nov. 21, 2018 at https://www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/article-gerontocracy-rules-in-washington-fresher-minds-prevail-in-ottawa/

Gaining participation in an open sourcing project is an art. #Angelist suggests three behaviours that will attract developers.
1. Write Code Any Engineer Can Read;
2. Write Documentation That Sells;
3. 3. Promote Your Repo Like A Product Launch
“Want To Recruit Better Engineers? Open Source Your Code” | Nov. 19, 2018 | AngelList at https://angel.co/blog/want-to-recruit-better-engineers-open-source-your-code
#OpenSource

#CentralEuropeanUniversity is accredited both in Hungary, and with Bard College in the USA. Rector #MichaelIgnatieff, if he doesn't have a rule of law from the #Orban government after the 17-month delay, says on Dec. 1 that #CEU will decamp from #Budapest to #Vienna.
https://www.theglobeandmail.com/world/article-enough-is-enough-michael-ignatieff-says-giving-hungary-a-deadline/ Nov. 20, 2018

Books to browse at #SystemsThinking Ontario #ClimateVentures @csiTO. Discussion on #WickedProblems, #SystemsApproach, #Pattern Language tracked through history with #HorstRittel, #CWestChurchman, #ChristopherAlexander. Focus from 1964 Notes on the Synthesis of Form through to October 2018 @PLoPCon and #PUARL #Purplsoc meetings. (Climate Ventures, Centre for Social Innovation, Spadina Avenue, Toronto, Ontario) 20181121
http://daviding.tumblr.com/post/180366485869/systems-thinking-ontario-books-to-browse-at

Understanding #Tablets in Early Childhood Education @rhondamcewen @KDMI Semaphore speaker series @UofTInfoFaculty. Research based on communication theory by #NiklasLuhmann. Attentional deficits in children are already there, but tablets make it worse. Gestures can change the way that knowledge is conceptually understood, not just on working memory, but long term memory.
http://daviding.tumblr.com/post/180366014764/bissell-building-understanding-tablets-in-early

Books on Pattern Language: Selecting from bookshelf for #WickedProblems #SystemsApproach #PatternLanguage show-and-tell at #SystemsThinking Ontario session at #ClimateVentures @csiTO tonight. Publications cross architecture, software development, social change. https://wiki.st-on.org/2018-11-21 (Centre for Social Innovation, 192 Spadina Avenue, Toronto, Ontario) 20181121

http://daviding.tumblr.com/post/180350230579/books-on-pattern-language-selecting-from

Choosing a #VPN provider on an app store should come with a buyer beware notice, as the offer of a free service means #trust that is not grounded in diligence. Who is behind these free VPN offers? https://www.top10vpn.com/free-vpn-app-investigation/

Animated #population pyramid by age and gender of 10 most populous countries portends future issues with rapid, slow and negative #growth.
"Animation: Population Pyramids of the 10 Largest Countries", #JeffDesjardins, Sept. 28, 2017 at http://www.visualcapitalist.com/animation-population-pyramids-10-biggest-countries
via https://twitter.com/simongerman600/status/917143080041701377

Untangling #DisruptiveInnovation #ClaytonChristensen from black swan anomalies in #Platforms. Also 2018 research on platforms as epistemic knowledge creation exchanges #LynneKiesling . Platforms as part of the larger #SharingEconomy
"The impacts of platforms" at https://coevolving.com/blogs/index.php/archive/the-impacts-of-platforms/