Emma's open notes

I built Open Source Wishlist last year as a contribution to the sustainability problem space.

Just this past week, Canada announced Digital Transformation Canada, with a mandate “to deliver better, faster, more reliable government services to Canadians.”

Here is a link to a PDF of our FOSSY Talk of this title.

Why a taxonomy of access won't democratize AI.

First things first - my primary contract wraps up in September (will write about that when it's shipped!)

This week I found myself contemplating human agency in times of change and challenge for values-driven communities, and stumbled upon an interesting book: Exit, Voice, and Loyalty: Responses to Decline in Firms, Organizations, and States.

AI models are built on the labor of open source communities in two distinct ways: as a dependency of the technology (the frameworks, libraries, and tooling models and their infrastructure run on) and as the content they are trained on (the code, documenta…

Sorry for some delays in writing.

Notes from my OTESSA talk, extended with what I have been reading since.

Three distinct things on my mind this week.

Sustainability is a systemic issue, and this is another symptom.

Centering open communities in the AI feedback loop Things that made me happy this week - My tulips are in full bloom!

Things that made me happy this week: Creative Commons paused before charging forward.