Starting the day a little late as I broke my rules and spent some time on networks doing more than necessary 1:1 correspondence. Though I feel I made up for it releasing the Open Source Bl;ogging collections of books last night as I am going to use that content in our book. 🍅⏲ activated
This is devastating to so many schools. SMS messaging critical to students and parents and, while "not the web" SMS essential to the mobile web in US. Time for @vzw to #ReversetheFee @RemindHq already pays standard rates: https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/9k4xee/verizon-is-making-it-harder-for-teachers-to-contact-students-who-dont-have-smartphones
@sunnydeveloper I pulled all the posts into one collection post for you: http://jgregorymcverry.com/opensourceblogging.html #foss and #opensource #blogging Not only do you build a better community you build a bettter web @mozilla
There is an irony being told not use #hacklearning on #edutwitter #NotSureHackMeansWhatYouThinkItMeans Good teachers deliver lessons, great teachers steal tgtem and make them fun
We are seeing a huge uptake with people migrating to @withknown as they just got fed up with the mess that has become wordpress. Want a php CMS that just works with #IndieWeb out of box? then join us: https://chat.indieweb.org/known/2019-01-15/1547556151979900
As an open source community your front door must invite potential contributors to walk right in. Yet many spaces fill their most forward looking properties full of jargon and or well established practices not easily identifiable to outsiders. Might as well put a Keep Out sign on your front door. We need to find new ways to invite people in. This often includ
@sunnydeveloper I added three more articles to my #FOSS Why Blog Collection: https://jgregorymcverry.com/opensourceblogging.html Need to fix an img but the links work thats all that matters.
This is the absolute worst news for local news: https://www.facebook.com/facebookmedia/blog/doing-more-to-support-local-news @facebook destroyed the local news market. DO NOT HAND YOUR LOCAL COMMUNITY over to facebook. Local news can save the local web. Facebook is not web #IndieWeb
As open source communities we need to keep each other energized and engaged.Many people contribute on volunteer time. Squeezing in opportunities to code around children and career. Committment takes love and energy. We allowed a narrative of the loner coder pushing commits from a dark basement to define us for far too long. Let us redefine what open source c
Having a straight white male explain a utopian vision of blogging and open source is not new. While I believe in the values of open pedagogy as much as I do in open source I recognize that I come from blogging from a place of priviledge and open source communities needs to recognize similar barriers people may face when calling everyone to blog Who is Everyo
If you are an #openpedagogy person using WordPress.org feel free to add your name to this list. @wiobyrne and I will be publishing it in our blogging chapter of the book: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1C2EM3nCKhRFqegCQShnuKRwyJZ-rmo3Y3USA0QDOir0/edit?usp=sharing #digped #literacies #ds106 #clmooc