[FM Discuss] Rebooting the Finnish site

[mick]

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 Finnish site has been archived for a long time but now I am rebooting 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 
> <http://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
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> tomi at flossmanuals.net
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