[FM Discuss] Rebooting the Finnish site

[Tomi Toivio]

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Finnish site has been archived for a long time but now I am rebooting it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?

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*Tomi Toivio*
Open Source Coordinator
FLOSS Manuals
+358400604828
tomi at flossmanuals.net
https://fi.flossmanuals.net
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