Axel Dürkop @xldrkp@scholar.social
PhD candidate at Hamburg University of Technology. Focus on Open Education, Decentralized Technologies and Free Software.
Just found [Gramps](https://gramps-project.org/wiki/index.php), a #genealogy software based on #Python.
Does anybody here conduct research on his or her own family?
Today is [I Love Free Software Day](https://fsfe.org/campaigns/ilovefs/)! #floss #opensource #freesoftware
Yesterday we had an inspiring workshop "#Ethics and #Technology: Some Issues" at TUHH https://tekethics.rz.tuhh.de/.
Speakers were
- Steffen Steinert, PhD Candidate, (LMU)
- Mario De Caro, Professor in Moral #Philosophy (Roma Tre University /Tufts University)
- Mirko D. Garasic, Research Scholar (#UNESCO Chair in Bioethics and Human Rights)
It became obvious that we need more interdisciplinary discussion on ethical implications of modern technology.
tekethics
@MDGarasic (on birdsite) just started discussing #technology and #ethics in an open course. Feel free to join http://www.hoou.de/projects/1d373d1d-d060-499f-8cfc-aa40a01f530d
In the first round it's all about #AI and #Robotics. From Oct. 2 the discussion will focus on Human Enhancement.
The learning project is part of the Hamburg Open Online University where you will find various #OER (Open Educational Resources) on many topics.
It's not too late for a post on #libremonday!
I would like to focus on [#Mattermost](http://mattermost.org/) today which we at our institute use for team collaboration and project management. It is an open source alternative to [Slack](http://slack.com/), but slim and non-distracting.
I would not say that it has become a substitute for email, but for targeted problem solving it works great.
For further reading on Slack and the like in research see e.g. https://www.nature.com/news/how-scientists-use-slack-1.21228
Alright, it's #LibreMonday today!
At Hamburg Universitiy of Technology we use #StaticSiteGenerators for the production of Open Educational Ressources (#OER). We chose #GitBook (https://www.npmjs.com/package/gitbook) first and try #Jekyll now.
Please find some examples here:
- https://hopon-newcomers.com/de/reader/de/index.html
- https://fizban05.rz.tu-harburg.de/itbh/veranstaltungsskript-inf-sose2017/
- https://biotechall.rz.tuhh.de/
#GitBook is great, but I recommend to use the commandline tool v3.2.3 and publish and host yourself. For that workflow #GitLab and #Docker are great.
If you're worried about #NetNeutrality, you should be worried about web #DRM, too
https://boingboing.net/2017/07/13/its-the-same-fight.html
Tim B-L either bribed or dumb
2/2 I use #entr http://entrproject.org/ to watch changes of the export file and trigger the conversion.
To organize my #literature, I use #Zotero https://www.zotero.org/ with #BetterBibTex plugin https://github.com/retorquere/zotero-better-bibtex/wiki and copy the #BibTex keys into my Zettels.
With http://draw.io/, #GIMP https://www.gimp.org/ and #Inkscape https://inkscape.org/en/ I do my graphics. #Atom https://atom.io/ is my #editor of choice. #FLOSS #LibreMonday
1/2 It's #LibreMonday and I want to tell you about my fancy #dissertation stack!
I use #Zettelkasten http://zettelkasten.danielluedecke.de/ to write and organize my text. From there, I export to #Markdown https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Markdown and convert with #pandoc http://pandoc.org/index.html, #pandoc-citeproc https://hackage.haskell.org/package/pandoc-citeproc using a #Makefile to convert to the final #LaTeX https://www.latex-project.org/ document. tbc...
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Good read: "Open Source Friday" wants to remind employees to contribute: https://opensource.com/article/17/6/open-source-friday-give-back
A good initiative as I think. And it could be adopted for the educational context as well: Teachers could remind students every week to contribute to the net as they build their knowledge on the open web every day. They could file an issue on GitHub or add to Wikipedia or write a blogpost. Many opportunities exist.
@Gargron Just started supporting you on Patreon. Thanks for your work.
@socrates What is the exact size of files to be uploaded on our instance, please?
Taking part in a session on the potentials of #blockchain for teaching and learning. #oercamp17
Right now I'm joining the workshop '„Ich lese diese Bullet points jetzt einfach mal laut vor!“ oder: Powerpoint – Die unbesungene Erfolgsgeschichte eines OER-Tools und unsere Konsequenzen heute' http://www.oercamp.de/17/nord/workshops/#nordA2c at #OERcamp17.
Collaboratively we are working on a slide set about #OER slides on Google Slides.
My contribution is on slide https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1lp5nI4VJtKETVq7Rnr0Xvj_a_4IEYCnzFQlnnrIpIXU/edit#slide=id.g1e6d8bf7cd_2_0
Arrived at #OERcamp17 in #Hamburg.
Looking forward to #OERcamp17 in #Hamburg!
Today and tomorrow the #OER community will meet in the north of Germany to join/give sessions and workshops on various topics.
The event will be in German, please find more information on the website http://www.oercamp.de/17/nord/workshops/
Tomorrow me and a colleague will host a workshop on static site generators, #GitLab, #Docker and #Mattermost for producing and sharing #OER. http://www.oercamp.de/17/nord/workshops/#nordB5k
