arm-chair social scientist interested in commons, cats, computers, cycling, code, cameras, co-ops.
I contribute to OSM and the Wikimedia movement.
i recently started as executive director at the @gnome foundation. if your company, nonprofit, university, or government dept deploys gnome, i would really like to talk to you once i find my feet in this new job. 🙂
https://blogs.gnome.org/steven/2025/05/06/introducing-myself/
firstname at gnome dot org
![the "stop doing math" meme except it says "STOP DRIVING CARS". the meme reads:
* PEOPLE WERE NOT SUPPOSED TO BE ISOLATED IN CAGES
* YEARS OF CONSTRUCTION yet NO REAL-WORLD USE FOUND for building ONE MORE LANE
* Wanted to travel large distances anyway for a laugh? We had a tool for that: It was called "TRAINS"
* "Yes please give me NO GREENERY. Please give me INFINITE PAVEMENT" - Statements dreamed up by the utterly Deranged
LOOK at what Civil Engineers have been demanding your Respect for all this time, with all the concrete and asphalt we built for them
(This is REAL Civil Infrastructure, done by REAL Civil Engineers):
? [Image of the infamously hideous Breezewood truck stop]
?? [Image of a gigantic mega parking lot with thousands of cars]
??? [Image of the infamous I-405 gridlock photo with tens of thousands of cars not moving]
"Hello I would like [Image of a graph of global surface temperatures] climate please"
They have played us for absolute fools](https://files.mastodon.social/cache/media_attachments/files/114/447/832/768/591/827/original/e6846e38e337e404.jpeg)
@contrapunctus really sad to hear this, hope you recover from this soon
@deobald I've seen Indian orgs using ERPNext + Razorpay if that counts
@siddhartha91 @organicmaps@mastodon.social @organicmaps@fosstodon.org
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@smurthys apologies for being unaware of dosa preparation standards :afb_haha:
@fds2610 you can :)
Accidentally created the #Debian logo in my Dosa. Good morning
Caste and capitalism are both widely misunderstood, and so it takes a long time to discuss how they work together to perpetuate inequities.
Watch All We Imagine as Light
OSM India contributor NLBRT (https://www.openstreetmap.org/user/NLBRT) was recently featured in a news article https://www.telegraphindia.com/west-bengal/students-of-siliguri-government-polytechnic-college-to-digitally-map-whole-city-prnt/cid/2088079 that highlights their effort to map amenities in Siliguri through field surveys with their college.
#OSM #OSMIndia #OpenStreetMap #India #WestBengal #Siliguri #tomtom
🚀✨ Join us for the *FOSS Release Party* hosted by *Free Software Movement Karnataka*! 🎊🎈
Let's celebrate the latest releases of GIMP 3.0, Debian 12.10, GNOME 48, Blender 4.4, and Elementary OS 8.0.1 with fellow open-source enthusiasts! 🖥️💙
📅 Date: 23rd March (Sunday)
⏰ Time: 10:30 AM
📍 Venue: 4th Floor, 1561, East End Main Road, Jayanagar, Bangalore
Don’t miss out on the fun, learning, and networking! 🚀🔥
#FOSS #FLOSS #Linux #GIMP #Debian #GNOME #Blender #ElementaryOS #TechCommunity
🚀 GNOME 48 is here!
After months of hard work from contributors worldwide, this release brings exciting updates and improvements. 🎉
🔎 Check out what’s new in #GNOME48 in the release notes: https://release.gnome.org/48
This Global #Recycling Day, let’s talk about our favorite way to reduce waste: repair!
Recycling is inefficient, complex, and time consuming. It should be the very last step in a long line of alternatives. While Reduce and Reuse are the best options, we think the missing R is Repair.
Here's why: https://www.ifixit.com/Right-to-Repair/Recycling
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#iFixit #GlobalRecyclingDay #RightToRepair
Has nobody here posted about #MisinfoCon happening in Koramangala, #Bengaluru this weekend?