i have good news: I will be a father! For the first time in my live.
And I have also a little less good news about how much I can contribute here in the coming year.
There was a time in my live when I had loads of free time to do unpaid work. And I used that time to contribute to and build OSCEdays with you. But at the moment and probably 2018 I am not able to do that anymore to the same extend.
OSCEdays is such a great project. We have so many ideas how to grow it and how to really make strong impact with it. We put ourselves in the past years with the project in a position where we were able to learn and experience so many things that our new approaches and ideas look really promising.
But to this moment we were never able to find funding for the project. Which blocks right now the implementation of all the good ideas.
I myself need to dedicate my time to paid work right now. But I’ll try to make sure to help OSCEdays progresses and uses the potential that was created by the community in the past.
We decided to make every second BoST call an operational call from now on - a call dedicated to operational work. Here you can read a bit more about that. And here you can read when those Operational Calls will happen in the next 6 months.
I started to develop the call for the 2018 event and my head is exploding with ideas. I see so many new cool things we can try and do this year. And help is appreciated.
Anyone up for a little brainstorming and work session between the holidays already? Also people outside of @BoST are welcome to join.
Ah! Sorry. I missed that so many votes came in. I thought the forum would send me some notification when someone votes, but it didn’t. So I assumed you are all busy with holidays. So we missed our collab session.
Anyway. I did a bunch of work to set things up for the 2018 event. I suggest that you start with the
Hi,
I had two interesting meetings in the past days. One with someone from Barcelona. I told that the numbers of cities for OSCEdays is going down. And he said: “Of course! Because people understood it. Job is done. All the students that come to us know that OS is the path to sustainability”.
And the other person was from Australia - gov-level. They are really looking closely to this forum and how we use it to organize things. And they will copy parts of it. Not use our forum but copy the methodology of openness.
This is all good news. That’s the impact we were looking for. Enable people to set up their own infrastructure and use methodologies and tools of Openness. Let’s keep it going.
If you set up events in your city I suggest to do it like we do it in Berlin. We make ppl. post their content on the forum in our call. The first topics arrive right now.
Some of you might be aware. But there is a new law in the EU - the “General Data Protection Regulation”
It comes with a lot - a lot! - of requirements you have to meet when you host a website in the EU. The law is enforceable from the 24th May on. So there is not much time left.
Someone needs to do some research if this forum and the website need to do something. Everything is hosted in the EU and we have a bunch of EU citizen. Maybe we are lucky because of the .org domain. But in any case. Research needs to be done or serious legal trouble might be on the horizon!
I’ll do my homework for wordpress websites and will know more about it soon. I am happy to share that knowledge for the OSCEdays website. But this forum is something entirely else probably. The research should start quite soon.
Two weekends ago we had an OSCEdays Booth at Maker Faire Berlin where we actually won two prizes:
The organizers of this years OSCEdays Rome – @SilCan + – dropped by and we had a really nice conversation and exchanged gifts - they gave us a bottle of wine we drank with the community at our after booth Maker Faire inviting also our friends from the Open Source Hardware film camera Apertus over.
The organizers asked me if I and maybe someone from @BoST could say a few words via hangouts to their local community . On:
Saturday, June 9, 10:15 am CEST.
Unless our Baby is born at that time I plan to be there. Who else is in and will join? I am sure it will be pretty nice.
Hi @BoST - sorry, I missed the call with Rome. Our baby - Fritz - was born Friday morning 5.55 am. And as you probably know or have heard: It is a complexity explosion afterwards \o/ . 1 Mio things to take care of. I hope the OSCEdays Rome community will understand.
Silvia, Qing and I will write an abstract for Leuphana (deadline 30. June) to try and get me as a speaker to that conference in Lüneburg in 2019.
I have another call that I find interesting: https://bits-und-baeume.org/call Its for the conference Digitalization and Sustainability 17. -18. November 2018 in Berlin (Technical University). Anyone up to write up something for that with me? Anyone wants to go as a speaker? Deadline ist 19.8. so we still have some time.
Where do we store this year’s pictures from Berlin? I took quite a few but I’m sure our photographer did better ones so before wasting space I want to check if I have anything that she didn’t catch
I finally and very last minute found time to work on @Silvia’s draft for the abstract for my talk at Leuphana. I would muchly appreciate if you took a minute to review it: https://pad.oscedays.org/p/leuphana-leverage-points
I need to submit this tonight as the deadline is tomorrow.
Bad news: the application for the association did not go through, we need to revise the statutes in several important points. This will take longer, but at least it won’t increase the costs (as far as I know).
Fritz - was born Friday morning 5.55 am. And as you probably know or have heard: It is a complexity explosion afterwards \o/ . 1 Mio things to take care of. 