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 Foursquare are releasing Foursquare Open Source Places as an open data set, to be updated monthly under the Apache 2.0 license. Pretty big news for the geospatial and location data folks. https://location.foursquare.com/resources/blog/products/foursquare-open-source-places-a-new-foundational-dataset-for-the-geospatial-community/  @andypiper Back from vacation (a camping trip), where I remained on-brand - hanging out with mammoths 🦣 #Mastodon I worked with Bruce for six years and he's a very smart fellow. Good piece here. https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/article/2024/aug/12/elon-musk-x-twitter-uk-riot-tweets-arrest-warrant Today was a great set of meetings and discussions, moving the #Fediverse forward. Nice to reconnect after too long with @chrismessina - and to meet @snarfed.org @J12t @anca @frozencanuck in person, lots more connections to make tomorrow. It is an exciting time in the #ActivityPub and #MastodonAPI ecosystem! Our #Fediforum brainstorming session for the Fediverse Developer Network #fedidevs What have you done with the #Mastodon stickers that you picked up at #FOSDEM? We'd love to hear / see! #poll Anonymous poll
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Voting ended 12 February at 17:31.  @andypiper @Mastodon Congrats to the lucky buyer! So glad to see y'all repping Mastodon at FOSDEM, hope you guys have a blast and celebrate all your hard work (and wish I could have attended, have a beer or two for me haha)  That was fun! I think the @Mastodon table at #FOSDEM was the busiest I’ve experienced at an event for a long time - so great to hear from people that use the platform every day! The team enjoyed the chance to meet you - thanks for coming by! More #Merchtodon tomorrow… #WhoIsJohnMastodon A phrase I heard and loved when I was in a committee room in the UK Parliament this evening, for an Open Source event - “Open Source is the Right to Repair, for software.” 👏🏻 such a perfect way of describing it, I wish I'd been the one to say it!
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 @andypiper It's an interesting way of seeing it but it's so incomplete I don't think it's worth using. Open source is the libertarian reappropriation of the librist movement that seeked to build intellectual commons. And it's because the commons are "cheap nature" that the capitalists are so interested by it, even more so as the intellectual commons are made of crystalized labor. The right to repair is a consequence of the fact we are handling with the freedom of the commons. @andypiper Wouldn't it be more accurate to say that #freesoftware gives you the right to repair? With #opensource software, the end product is often proprietary and you have no way of fixing a bug in the final binary. A free software license like the #gpl is there to prevent taking away this freedom.  @andypiper to take a contrary position, I hope that never catches on because (not least) it's a terrible model and some regulators would assume it literally. It ignores software as creative expression, as speech against power, as solution engineering, as creativity. The community aspects are isomorphic to RTR, one can see that, but it is not a fit paintbrush with which to describe the entire movement. What I worked on with Mastodon in 2023. http://andypiper.co.uk/2023/12/27/six-and-a-bit-months-on-team-mastodon/  @andypiper The past year in the fediverse has been very exciting. Thank you for all your contributions! Does anyone in my network have technical or product contacts at SquareSpace they could connect me with? (boost for viz please!) Excited to announce that the @Mastodon project will have a stand at #FOSDEM2024 ... February this year was my first time at #FOSDEM, and this time I'll be there with a project I support! Looking forward to it. https://fosdem.org/2024/news/2023-11-20-accepted-stands-fosdem-2024/  Mastodon 4.2 on Product Hunt, go upvote us! https://www.producthunt.com/posts/mastodon-4-2 I’ll be leading a #Fediverse 101 session about Mastodon and more at the #DevRelCon unconference this morning.  I attended the first #FediForum - it was a good, useful experience to learn more about the various projects collaborating through #ActivityPub. I’m going to be on vacation this second time so I will unfortunately not be there, but, I recommend it to #Fediverse developers - they have tickets at more accessible price points. I look forward to hearing about outcomes and catching up on the notes when I’m back! https://mastodon.social/@fediforum/111019815056382897  The #Mastodon 4.2.0-beta1 is available for testing, and there’s a lot of good stuff inside - it is also a great time to get involved and contribute to our translations project! More info and a link to CrowdIn here -> https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/blob/main/CONTRIBUTING.md#translations There’s more information about what is coming in #Mastodon 4.2.0 in the release notes for the beta https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/releases/tag/v4.2.0-beta1  Nice to see some of the Reddit app developers switch over to the #Fediverse https://www.androidpolice.com/sync-back-not-a-reddit-app-anymore/ In a thoroughly timely move, I’m re-upping this post thinking about the future of #DevRel in a heterogenous world of social platforms. Apropos of, I dunno, something… let’s call it “X”. https://macaw.social/@andypiper/109930971760423920 12
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Gregory's Server
@andypiper had no idea they were still around
@andypiper Ooh, this is very cool news! Hope someone builds something with it. 👀
@andypiper that's awesome. It'll definitely be extremely helpful for Smithereen — I do need a geographical database for several features that a social network of this style "must" have. That's at least the education section in profiles (schools, universities, etc), and venues in events.
I was contemplating how I'm going to try to pull something out of OSM and/or have a community of my users maintain it, now I don't have to. The only problem is that this dataset must be terabytes in size.