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Trojans boot camp 2022 4
Date : Sunday 23rd January 2022 Time : 10 am —> 13:00
Location : Foxhole playing field, Bellfield Road, Paignton
2022 is here, so on with training and we are no upping the training to include contact football in preparation for the season ahead.
New players welcome, existing players wanting to return welcome. Lets build a bigger team for 2022.
Fediverse take up in 2021
Some stats on the growth of the Fediverse in 2021
Tags
#Fediverse,#Growth,#SocialMedia,#Fedizen,#TheYearOfTheFediverse
Fediverse Rising
This is a copy of my article sent in to the Beach hut article published January 2022
Fediverse Rising
Former President Donald Trump just launched his own social media network. If the login screen looks familiar, that may be because it has the same look and feel of the social media application Mastodon [1]. But what is Mastodon, and why is it important?
Mastodon is a decentralized social media site. This means that instead of one big site, like Facebook, people can run their own “nodes” and the users on each can share information with the rest of the network. There is no advertising, no data collecting, or tracking, so there is more privacy, although this is not to say public posts can’t be “scraped.”
Mastodon sites are federated and there is no single owner of the whole social media service. You can run your own Mastodon server, called an “instance,” and interact with other users on other instances. These communicate through a protocol called ActivityPub. [2] The network of instances, called the Fediverse, consists of instances running the Mastodon software licensed under the GNU Affero General Public License [3] from the free software foundation [4]. An example of Federation is e-mail, there are different providers of e-mail e.g disroot, protonmail and they can all work together.
Just like on mainstream social media such as Facebook and Twitter, you can share pictures, messages, media, and links and can follow other people or topics (using hasthtags) of interest. A project called Trunk [5] helps you find people who like similar interests.
The Fediverse community values user input. The community on socialhub [6] are keen to build a social network system that is welcoming and safe for everyone, one that everyone can collaborate and work together. Some of this community are communicating with the EU / UK governments to ensure legislation and internet governance is fit for purpose and puts users before profits.
References
1. https://docs.joinmastodon.org/
2. https://activitypub.rocks/
3. https://www.gnu.org/licenses/agpl-3.0.en.html
4. https://www.fsf.org/
5. https://communitywiki.org/trunk
6. https://socialhub.activitypub.rocks/
Links
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#YearOfTheFediverse,#FediverseRising,#Science,#Technology,#ScienceDaily,#PaigtonLibrarySTEMGroup,#Fedevolution2022
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Trojans boot camp 2022 3
Date : Sunday 16th January 2022 Time : 10 am —> 13:00
Location : Foxhole playing field, Bellfield Road, Paignton
2022 is here, so on with training and we are no upping the training to include contact football in preparation for the season ahead.
Decentralization, Free Software, and the Fediverse
Montreal Sauce – Decentralization, Free Software, and the Fediverse
Interview with Sean Tilley.
Links
#MontrealSauce,#Decentralization,#FreeSoftware,#TheFediverse
Tech Ethics
Another interesting post on Mastodon. The original blog article may be a few years old but seems to raise some good points about teaching ethics in Technology and a link to a spreadsheet with where you can learn about this within courses.
Links
We can perhaps discuss further at the Feb Stem group meeting
Tags
#Technology,#Ethics,#Syllabi,#Courses,#Discussions,#STEMGroup
Moonhack 2022
Moonhack is a free international event bringing kids from across the world together for a week of coding! Suitable for kids ages 8-15, it's a free, easy and hands-on way to get coding, no matter where you are. Over the past 6 years, more than 150,000 kids have coded as part of Moonhack. founding partners
Details for 2022 are still due to be announced, however there is no reason why you can't look at lasts years projects and think about forming a team for this years Contest.
In fact why not use the Paignton Library STEM Group meetings as an opportunity to get a team together, meet up and see what help / support is needed, then look at registering your team.
Links
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Lithium Mining
This graphic was posted to Mastodon, I am sharing here as it demonstrates a really good point.
While the pipeline is probably going to be oil or gas, the so called green alternatives seems to have a huge environmental impact.
Before lockdown in 2020 I was planning a STEM activity around this topic, or more specifically the effect of Lithium mining on local groundwater, and how this takes groundwater away from farmers etc.
There is a video about the Extraction process on youtube.
More info on Lithium here from compound chem
So compared to Oil / Gas, using lithium to power cars does not release gasses such as $CO2$, $NO2$ and $CO$ so the batteries are cleaner, but are they cleaner if you look at the whole lifecycle of the battery from getting the raw materials ?
Proto School
This was posted to Mastodon, useful set of tutorials from Proto School [1]
Our self-guided interactive tutorials are designed to introduce you to decentralized web concepts, protocols, and tools.
These were posted by DignifiedSilence [2]
Courses on offer
REFERENCES
1 Proto School 2 DignifiedSilence
TAGS
#YearOfTheFediverse,ProtoSchool,#tutorials, #ProtoSchool,#lessons,
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