Sam Tuke @samtuke@mastodon.social

Got my ticket to @Techcrunch Disrupt Berlin this week -- first time, tips welcome 👩‍🏫 The Brella matchmaking app is a nice twist for quickly booking meetings with strangers who have the things you need #NetworkingNotSorry #TCDisrupt

Today the results of the Yale OpenLabs + NetImpact ESMT Collabathon (#hackathon) were presented at the UN Climate Change Conference in Madrid. So ends a three week period of collaboration by 350 participants at 10 global locations. My perspective from Berlin: http://samtuke.com/2019/12/mentoring-at-the-yale-open-climate-hackathon/

"It’s not that we’re paying for the services in other ways, it’s that we wouldn’t consume them at all if they weren’t free" – encouraging Google and others to pay users for their data may misunderstand and exaggerate the benefit that those users derive: https://ftalphaville.ft.com/2019/11/28/1574949959000/If-a-monopoly-gives-away-free-services-is-it-a-problem-/ #BigData

The Document Foundation publishes #OpenSource productivity apps which are relied upon by over a hundred million users and countless public sector organisations. I'm standing for the Board of Directors and published my candidate statement here http://samtuke.com/2019/11/standing-for-the-board-of-the-document-foundation/

Transparent film printed with the source code of 6,000 critical #OpenSource apps, stored for eternity by @GitHub. Because OSS apps are "the foundation of the modern world", says @natfriedman. The @SWHeritage project protects 91 million apps, but has no Swedish ice vault AFAIK. https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2019-11-13/microsoft-apocalypse-proofs-open-source-code-in-an-arctic-cave

Exporting designs from #Adobe apps to the #OpenSource Presentator app for design feedback, just got a lot easier https://presentator.io/news/adobe-xd-plugin

This codebase visualisation and exploration tool for #C, C++, #Java & #Python, just switched from proprietary to #OpenSource licensing. Even better: the company transparently explains the business challenges that led to this decision. Let's support them. https://www.sourcetrail.com/blog/open_source/

Whether #stress is felt as necessary or threatening determines our physiological response, including #oxytocin production, and whether we socialise or withdraw. We can control our stress perception by reframing risk as growth. So say neuroscientists and The Guardian today https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2019/nov/18/under-pressure-how-stress-can-change-our-lives-for-the-better

Build it and they will come? Mother Earth's Heroes
Podcast showed up at the #YaleOpenLabs
#Collabathon yesterday and interviewed three of us about this weekend of climate hacktivism: https://open.spotify.com/show/2PwRC7uf0HUBeMbQZOAiBj

Word of the day: "Anxiolytic" – an anxiety inhibitor. As in “[new research shows that] deep sleep seems to be a natural anxiolytic, so long as we get it each and every night.” https://t.co/4VvLhdS8Ud #PositivePsychology

#Blockchain and #Django developers are particularly welcome. It's also catered, and you get a certificate from Yale 🎓 That aside, it's a good opportunity to meet climate and data scientists from Berlin's startup and academic scenes 🍻

The Earth needs a transparent Open Source climate accounting system to contain global carbon emissions and enforce the Paris Climate Agreement. Join our team of 60 mentors and participants this weekend at #TheDrivery Berlin for a hackathon in collaboration with #YaleOpenLab and #EnergyWeb https://www.collabathon.openclimate.earth/

"It takes more than 100 times the energy to manufacture an alkaline battery than is available during its use phase". "[Alkaline batteries'] greenhouse gas emissions are 30 times that of the average coal-fired power plant, per watt". Yikes. https://onezero.medium.com/unraveling-the-secret-supply-chain-behind-an-amazonbasics-battery-e7b9ead4d72e

A digital marketing startup called "Orwell" at #WebSummit: "find out what people think", "manage your customers easily" — im not sure old Georgie would approve

Going to @fosdem 2020? Return flights from Berlin are currently €24 (evening takeoffs). Consider adding one day either side for #CopyleftConf and #ChaossCon. Other #FOSDEMFringe events you'd recommend?

Series A of $24m closed by @Grafana, AKA "the worlds first composable #OpenSource observability platform for metrics, logs and traces". Continues the trend of dollars to OS monitoring e.g. @datadoghq @elastic and @PrometheusIO https://techcrunch.com/2019/10/24/grafana-labs-nabs-24m-series-a-for-open-source-based-data-analytics-stack/

#OpenSource funding: #CMS Ghost originally raised £200k seed investment on Kickstarter, now has annual revenues of $1.7m, while remaining a non-profit Foundation. It hit a milestone last week with their 3.0 release, including a new subscription model https://techcrunch.com/2019/10/23/ghost-cms-adds-open-source-subscription-and-membership-options/

This leaving gift, hand delivered from @phpList's Tirana office via Vienna, was an emotional surprise: a "New Challenge Survival Kit". I don't know how you put it together, but thank you Suela, Rudolf, Mariana, Xhes, and Brunilda. I shall treasure it! #TeamTuke

A #WhatsApp alternative powered by an email (#IMAP) backend: https://delta.chat/en/ Backed by a business service provider: spikenow.com. We need (a lot) more innovation in mail clients like this. Via Piks3l@pouet.it