Notices by Mayel - ghost account (mayel@social.coop), page 84

Is anybody here familiar with the Edith Maryon Foundation in Switzerland? Starting in 1990, they've brought 100+ buildings in Germany & Switzerland into collective / cooperative management, for a variety of (mostly residential) social purposes. Pretty awesome! https://cooperativecity.org/2017/10/24/stiftung-maryon/

Remember that time when folks were asking about "Federated Instagram"?

Well... does this count?

"Fontina is intended to be an ActivityPub-compliant, federated, photo-sharing-based social network."

Source:
https://github.com/beta-phenylethylamine/fontina

#Introduction

#Languagetransfer is creating free language courses.

The best way to experience the methodology is to tune into one of the existing courses:

https://www.languagetransfer.org/audio-course (just listen to the first 4 tracks of any course and enjoy!)

Currently available (you have to know some English):

#Spanish
#French
#Italian
#Swahili
#German
#Arabic
#Turkish
#Greek

and

#Ingles (para hisbanoablantes)

Have fun!

#LT #language #learning #audio #course #podcast

Growth of social.coop over the last year (thanks to @valere

https://dashboards.mnm.social/d/000000005/instance-detail?refresh=30m&orgId=1&var-instance=social.coop&from=now-1y&to=now

https://social.coop/media/nswIjQvXLRkc4GuDpR4

Has anyone got a handy chart showing social.coop's growth to 1,000 users?

"One of Google’s promotional videos during the event concluded with the tagline “just make Google do it.” As with the very name of the Google Assistant it was advertising, this promo positions Google’s services as your servants (...) But I feel like this deliberately benign portrayal masks a huge number of proactive decisions that Google makes every day on our behalf"

How long will this madness continue? How can people not see where this is going?

https://www.theverge.com/2018/5/9/17334632/google-io-2018-personal-assistant

Dear free and open source community,

I want you to recommend projects that welcome people that never contributed to FOSS before. I am planning to do a workshop this year to encourage people to make their first contributions. What I need:

- A page explaining how they could contribute.
- General recommendations and documentation.
- Where they can contact people involved in such projects in case they have questions.

#Loomio tip: if you want to make a proposal and use "fist to five" type decision-making, use a Poll (not a Proposal) and give people options to show their degree of support,e.g.
- I love this and will help make it happen!
- I support this.
- Okay
- I have a concern
- I have an very serious concern
- If this goes through, I have to leave this organization.

This can help the group focus on points of concern and offer revisions that address them.

Thanks to Robert Guthrie and Leila for guidance.