Today we are calling on institutions around the world to take control of their #digitalsovereignty, including their social accounts. Governments should communicate directly with their citizens on open platforms, not through the mouthpiece of a corporation […]

A good theory is self-evident but you need a window to see it as it is - Dr. Victoria Hurth https://www.listennotes.com/podcasts/engaging-esg-with/purpose-driven-governance-IWxnt0sdzTm/ #sustainability #esg

It is still funny watching folks fall asleep on Zoom. I always find that it helps me stay awake, too. Good reminder to turn off my video if I'm feeling drowsy, and may not be fully engaged.

Today I build a tool (using ChatGPT) to help determine how often people speak in Zoom meetings. If you have a transcript, you can drop it in here and see how often and where people speak. It also cleans up the formatting so it is easier to read. #vtt #transcripts […]

#a11y Folks - Would you do an accessibility audit on a site that used an accessibility overlay and planned to keep it enabled?

I hate it when there are more AI Note-takers in a meeting than there are actual people in the meeting.

Do they pipe in bird sounds into Japanese train stations or are they very consistent and loud birds? #japan

“Open source has proven itself to be a winning strategy — not recently, but for decades.” — Adriana Groh, Sovereign Tech Agency CEO. #eusummit #digitalsovereignty,

To have seen something, is to not have seen something else. - Teamlab Borderless

Quite the gap between theory and practice: while German federal states, armed forces and French gendarmerie rely on #opensource because they have understood that #digitalsovereignty is only achievable with open technology, the closing declaration for tomorrow‘s #digitalsummit treats OS like a […]

Happy to see this European Declaration of Digital Independence: https://apell.info/2025/11/17/declaration-digital-independence/ Thanks #apell #opensource #foss

Happy to see this European Declaration of Digital Independence: https://apell.info/2025/11/17/declaration-digital-independence/ Thanks #apell #opensource #foss

I should come up with a list of things that Japan is better at than "The West". Things like cans. They are easier to open. More ergonomic. Why don't all cans work like they do in Japan?

It might be more impressive (generally) to ride the #shinkansen in the daytime. It is fast, but how would I actually know.

I am looking for a new airplane travel bag with rollers. I have bad feet. Standing in line is the worst. Surely someone has produced a small hard shell suitcase that an adult can sit on? It has to fit on carry-on & provide a seat. Simple.

I am happy to announce this book that i wrote a chapter in. My chapter looks at the ethics of #accessibility #sustainability and #opensource so touches on many threads. It is amazing to have contributed a small part of this first work of accessibility ethics […]

Have we built a web that has presumed a given business model? Great question from the #tpac discussion on the #futureoftheopenweb today. /c @w3c

Love this quote by Hillary Ronen "What is the problem you're trying to solve? And why is AI the best way to solve this problem?" I love her critique of government policymaking. Thanks to #themaybe for another interesting episode of #computersaysmaybe […]

On Friday the Government of Canada released this position paper on Digital Sovereignty. https://www.canada.ca/en/government/system/digital-government/digital-government-innovations/cloud-services/digital-sovereignty/digital-sovereignty-framework-improve-digital-readiness.html I would love to […]

“The camera never lies… but you can take a thousand different pictures of the same scene.” ~~ Author Hector Macdonald

Excited about going to my first @w3c #tpac in Kobe Japan. I will be co-hosting a breakout group on Web Sustainability Guidelines #wsg — November 12th, 08:30 JST https://www.w3.org/events/meetings/f7fcc7e0-49fc-4636-bd06-9f31babc0352/ More about the WSG here […]

I am looking forward to going to the @w3c 's #tpac in Kobe Japan. I will be hosting a breakout group on #arrm — Accessibility Roles and Responsibilities Mapping — November 12th, 16:15 JST https://www.w3.org/events/meetings/76eeff8c-9750-4d3e-874b-a32293d6af9c/ More about ARRM here […]

I started a little python project to take my ~20 years of #flickr photos, categorize them and analyze the content using #ollama locally. So far the results are pretty good. Some hallucinations, but mostly useful content. I'd be interested in knowing if others have tried this. What information […]

I wrote this with a bunch of good folks in the #drupal community A New Era of Digital #accessibility: The #eaa and its Implications for Drupal https://www.drupal.org/association/blog/a-new-era-of-digital-accessibility-the-eaa-and-its-implications-for-drupal /c @drupalassoc

Teams can't be trusted.. People maybe, but definitely not MS Teams.

Great Intelligence2 episode with @pluralistic https://open.spotify.com/episode/2DoEu99vKnI6OuwCnbRbTZ?si=s00vfBqpRDmOmF8SkH_EqA I loved his call for #digitalsovereignty. It is great how #foss provides countries to provide a viable alternative. Interoperability & being able to reverse engineer […]

"I can't help but believe that in the future we'll see in the United States and throughout the Western World an increasing trend toward the next logical step: employee ownership. It's a path that benefits a free people." — Ronald Reagan, 1987 […]

"Employee ownership that re-centres capital with the workers… where automation is embraced not as a threat to the future of the company but as a way to improve its performance because the workers who are the owners have confidence that they will not be the victims but the beneficiaries." — Jason […]

Perhaps you and I have lived too long with this miracle to properly be appreciative. Freedom is a fragile thing and it's never more than one generation away from extinction. It is not ours by way of inheritance; it must be fought for and defended constantly by each generation, for it comes only […]

I just registered for #drupalcon next week. I look forward to seeing folks there on Tuesday. I can't make the whole event, but will be able to say hi to a few folks. /c @DrupalConEUR #drupal #drupalcms #drupalai #opensource #foss

The European Open Source Awards marks a celebration and one of a kind recognition of open source excellence in Europe. Open Call for Nominations: https://europeanopensource.academy/open-call-nominations-european-open-source-awards-2026

@nextcloud Is it on the roadmap that individuals might get an opportunity to try basic document hosting with Nextcloud like we can with Google Docs? I'm just wanting to try it slowly, and over a longer period of time.

How do governments leave Twitter? https://open.substack.com/pub/digitalpolicy/p/how-the-government-should-leave-twitter

I spent a bunch of time this evening updating the Wikipedia entry for the #europeanaccessibilityact #eaa which is now in effect. I wanted to have better representation for country specific data: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European_Accessibility_Act#Country_Specific_Requirements Still needs […]

Katy Rubin gives an energetic defense for #democracy in this podcast: https://accidentalgods.life/peoples-charter-for-people-power-with-katy-rubin-and-oli-whittington-of-our-house/ Our current “democracy” is not fit for the challenges of preserving complex life on Earth—it functions more like […]

For organization public @GitHub or #gitlab repos, are there best practices on what should go into them? When should it be in a private repo as an experiment vs tied to the organization site? Maintaining a piece of content with an organization comes with some responsibility & possibly some costs […]

Has anyone written up best practices for #accessibility with #googlesheet's charts & graphs? I'm struggling to deal with the best of bad choices. Text isn't legible or it is hard to differentiate between dark bars. I wish they had patterns, but someone must have written some guidance on this. #a11y

The slides from my last talk (of 3) from #ossummit can be found below. Adding the W3C’s New ARRM To Improve Your Project’s A11y — Accessible Roles and Responsibilities Mapping […]

The slides from my first talk from earlier today at #ossummit can be found below. Building a SolarPunk Web: Open Source for a Sustainable Digital Future #solarpunk #opensource #climatetech #WebSustainability #sustyweb […]

Great presentation by @polexa at @linuxfoundation #ossummit talking about relationships between water infrastructure and digital infrastructure. @sovereign.tech has been doing an amazing job of raising the profile of the role #opensource place in providing our #digitalinfrastructure

Great presentation today at #ossummit Europe today by @zendis So encouraging to see #germany's leadership on deploying #opensource #soverigndigital #government Looking at how to manage both the technology but also the change. Amazing to see France & Holland also collaborating on this project!

Nice keynote from Dirk Hohndel at the @linuxfoundationeu.bsky.social #ossummit reminding us of the importance of #opensource ecosystems. #open is a value that needs to be given more weight over convenience.

Very entertaining & educational keynote on #curl at #ossummit Amazing how much curl is involved in driving our modern world. #thanks Daniel Stenberg!

@linuxfoundation If you could talk to https://sched.com about providing better support for #mastodon that would be great. #ossummit

I am pleased to be speaking at #ossummit this afternoon in Amsterdam on Digital Public Goods - Incentivizing Collaboration https://osseu2025.sched.com/event/28XF6 #digitalpublicgoods #dpg #foss #opensource #oss

Just landed in Amsterdam for the the #opensourcesummit Love that someone created this guild in GitHub to provide places to go around the conference. https://github.com/shirleybailes/oss-europe-amsterdam-food #ossummit

Is it skunk season where you are?

I vibe-coded this yesterday to help deal with my timesheet at work. I didn't find the way GitHub presented my activities useful for tracking my time. https://github.com/mgifford/gh-summary Seems to work OK. Would love feedback on how to improve it. #github #Timesheet

This is an important episode of the #yourundividedattention #podcast https://www.humanetech.com/podcast/daniel-kokotajlo-forecasts-the-end-of-human-dominance Hopefully this prediction is wrong. But... what if it is right?

Great post by Dries https://dri.es/funding-open-source-like-public-infrastructure It is high time that #opensource is recognized for what it is, critical digital infrastructure! I was happy to be able to contribute a small amount to this post.