I'm writing this article within the context of the SOAM "RE:FUND OUR DIGITAL FUTURE: REIMAGINING FUNDING ARCHITECTURES FOR PUBLIC INTEREST TECHNOLOGY” residency program I'm taking part in to order to create a new speculative institutional model with the goal of empowering open hardware infrastructure…
I'm writing this article within the context of the SOAM "RE:FUND OUR DIGITAL FUTURE: REIMAGINING FUNDING ARCHITECTURES FOR PUBLIC INTEREST TECHNOLOGY” residency program I'm taking part in to order to create a new speculative institutional model with the goal of empowering open hardware infrastructure…
First off- excited to announce that I've been accepted into the SOAM Virtual Residency program with the theme ""RE:FUND OUR DIGITAL FUTURE: REIMAGINING FUNDING ARCHITECTURES FOR PUBLIC INTEREST TECHNOLOGY". I applied because I thought this theme would be perfect to try to address the…
Ever since its eponymous report was published nearly a decade ago, the "roads and bridges" metaphor has dominated how many working with FOSS software, including I, think about open source sustainability. Nadia Asparouhova's influential 2016 report painted a picture of critical digital infrastructure that is prone…
Reading in Servo's latest weekly report that it's now passing 1.7 million Web Platform Subtests, I started wondering: How much investment would it build it into a competitive, independent browser, in the context of all this talk on digital sovereignty? Servo is an experimental web…
Open Knowledge Foundation Germany has just released a new report titled: "From Software to Society: Openness in a Changing World" by Dr. Henriette Litta and Peter Bihr (I was also interviewed for it). The report talks about what openness means in our digital ages, both from the history…
(this is fiction based on fictional events that never happened any comparisons or similarities to real life events or people or computer programs are a sign of an over active imagination) Dramatis Personae * Nydia, the Seer: Our narrator, a seer who warns of the dangers of neglecting open source. * Jia…
Last night, I attended an insightful and well-organized Bits & Bäume Policy Lab event at the Weizenbaum Institute for the Networked Society. Cecilia Rikap delivered an expert breakdown of Big Tech’s dominance and how its control over our digital world extends far beyond mere ownership. She concluded with an…