Last December marked the end of the longest contract for Open By Default as the Open Climate Data project at Creative Commons winds down (see also launch post). For 19 months I consulted as a Research analyst with them. In this blog post I will focus on what I helped with. The assignment was focused on desk research, building upon the Landscape analysis they already had done when I entered the project. My work was using the data in it,…
A couple of weeks ago I had the pleasure of speaking at FOSS Backstage. The topic was the same as at CfgMgmtCamp, to use open tools in open source projects, but I had the opportunity to fine-tune the slides and pracice more. The entire talk, titled “FOSS behind the scenes – the center stage is not enough” is embedded below, and the slides are available at aina.li/backstage2026. Wikidata talk In a moment of spontaneity at the conference I submitted a…
A few weeks ago I had the pleasure to speak about open tooling in Free and Open Source Software projects at CfgMgmtCamp in Ghent. The talk had been requested since I gave a talk on the same theme at What Hackers Yearn (see my personal blog post). At this occasion, I gave it the title: Free Software Needs Free Tools: Making Your Project Truly Open. The organization of the conference was good and I am happy that the talk also…
For a couple of months, I will help Creative Commons in their Open Climate Data project. It will be a very exciting and meaningful project. The assignment is in detailj described in their posting (archived version).
