Axel Dürkop @xldrkp@scholar.social

Showed my nine year old daughters how to subscribe to podcasts and transfer them to their MP3 players.

We used #ElementaryOS, #gPodder and a SanDisk 8GB Clip Sport that accepts #OGG format.

As an old school dad I believe in "one tool one job" as it teaches children the underlying principles of computers much better than convenient black boxes like smartphones.

What do you think about that?

Happy to announce a local event in the middle of #OEWeek 2019:

"Telling Stories with #Twine & #H5P"

We want to find out, how these tools can interact to tell engaging and playful stories in #education.

If you are around in #Hamburg come and join us!

For more information see https://www.openeducationweek.org/events/telling-stories-with-twine-h5p and https://community.tuhh.de/t/oeweek-session-on-6-march-2019/1378

Released a small tool called "gitlab-exporter" on PyPI today that I need for project management with #GitLab.

https://pypi.org/project/gitlab-exporter/

Simple statement at the end of "I love free software!" day: I love free software!

@dajbelshaw Just saw your presentation at ALT 2018 about the federated approach for Moodle.[1] Very promising and consistently thought out!

Have the presentations from ALT already been uploaded to PeerTube?

[1]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S2mc5W7ESvE

Released the presentation that I used for the workshop on #Ethics & #Technology[1] as an #OER.

Used the project to check out the new #pandoc version 2.5 for building #Beamer slides. This time I had to invest some time, but now I have a scaffold that I - and you - can (re)use.

Please find the slides as a PDF at (in German) in our university's #GitLab.[2]

[1]: https://tekethics.rz.tuhh.de/
[2]: https://collaborating.tuhh.de/itbh/transferworkshops/tekethics-workshop/releases

Gave a workshop yesterday in the central library on #ethics & #technology. Twenty people showed up and had a lively discussion about #blockchain, #AI, #BigData, autonomous vehicles and #genetics.

In the end, one of them suggested to establish a weekly round table on techno-ethical topics, as everybody agreed that *nothing* was clear about current technical trends. They exchanged mail addresses and want to continue the discussion right away next week.

This was not what I had expected!

Tonight, there will be the award ceremony for surveillance studies in Hamburg.[1]

[1]: https://www.surveillance-studies.org/2019/01/surveillance-studies-preis-die-preisverleihung/

Dealing with the aspect of velocity when developing and establishing standards an article by Moxie Marlinspike on Signal comes to my mind.[1]

[1]: https://signal.org/blog/the-ecosystem-is-moving/

Excellent article on the rise and fall of #RSS by Sinclair Target[1]. Not just a precise story of an unfortunate fork it can also be read as an appeal to not repeat the same mistakes from the past when developing new frameworks for #decentralization and #federation.

Dealing with #ActivityPub and the discussion about its pros and cons[2] we should set up a moderating unit to accompany further development.

[1]: https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/a3mm4z/the-rise-and-demise-of-rss
[2]: eg. https://schub.io/blog/2019/01/13/activitypub-final-thoughts-one-year-later.html

I want to explain the idea of the #Fediverse to strategic and political players.

Does anyone have a good drawing that says more than words? E.g. how #Peertube, #Mastodon and #Pixelfed play together?

In the current #IPFS newsletter I read about #ProtoSchool[1]. I think that's a great initiative, because information and education about the idea of decentralization and federation is needed.

The tutorials at ProtoSchool are about IPFS and the like which is good. But I wonder if #ActivityPub and non-blockchain-based federation should appear there, too.

Should we ask if ProtoSchool could be a place for that? Should we write such a tutorial?

[1]: https://proto.school/#/

Just became a member of the "Federation Networks Association" https://feneas.org/ @noplanman

Checking out the new Scratch 3.0 with my daughters. They love it!