From mick at flossmanuals.net Thu Oct 5 12:57:49 2023 From: mick at flossmanuals.net (mick) Date: Thu, 5 Oct 2023 20:57:49 +0100 Subject: [FM Discuss] Rebooting the Finnish site In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <67a206b1-9d17-470d-bd74-298b04129602@flossmanuals.net> HI Tomi, Sorry for the slow reply. I've passed this onto a couple of networks that may be interested. It would be great to hear how you get on with Bookstack. :) On 17/09/2023 1:54 pm, Tomi Toivio wrote: > Hello, > > Finnish site has been archived for a long time but now I am rebooting > it again. Already?installed Bookstack for editing. > > I am planning a couple of manuals that are quite specific to Finnish > language and political issues and the recent developments in technology. > > Research tools for citizen journalists. How to use open source tools > for research purposes. There was a scandal when citizen journalists > were digging up old statements by a minister from archive.org > , there are all kinds of open source tools for > that kind of research. > > A little bit like Tech Tools For Activism but focusing on all kinds of > research tools. It should be called something like Research Tools For > Activism. Maybe I should get a domain and install all of the tools and > start an activist research collective. And start every chapter with a > Guy Debord quote. > > I have also been asking?OKF and EFF about the ethical limitations of > things like web scraping. Research like that should respect privacy etc. > > Another idea is a manual about Finnish language and open source tools. > Finnish NLP was always really horrible, but now Spacy > (https://spacy.io/) handles it really well. There are also Finnish GPT > models by TurkuNLP (https://turkunlp.org/). Maybe I just include this > one in the Research Tools For Activism manual. > > Generally I am looking for all kinds of open data and data science > tools that could be used with the limited resources of a citizen > journalist or an NGO researcher if they get a bit of technical advice. > > Let's see how far this?goes, I am just going to go ahead with this and > see what kind of collaborators I will find. I have been talking about > this with citizen journalism and open data type people. There is no > formal organization or project for the Finnish site currently, if > somebody asks I will just say I am working on this project as a member > of our Linux co-operative. > > Anybody interested in collaborating on an international version of > this in?English? For the Finnish version I am going for the things > that seem to be important for the Finnish civil?society, another > country might have completely different needs. It would be interesting > if people from different countries and fields collaborated on > something like this. > > So is anybody interested in collaborating on an English version of > this? Do you know any open source tools that should be included? Or > international open source activist research groups? > > -- > *Tomi Toivio* > Open Source Coordinator > FLOSS Manuals > +358400604828 > tomi at flossmanuals.net > https://fi.flossmanuals.net > > _______________________________________________ > Discuss mailing list > Discuss at lists.flossmanuals.net > http://lists.flossmanuals.net/listinfo.cgi/discuss-flossmanuals.net - you can unsubscribe here -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: