Bastian Greshake Tzovaras
Bastian Greshake Tzovaras
Bastian is an independent researcher who works on both the theory and practice of co-created citizen science and peer production. Overall, his research centers around how open source/science technologies can be used to empower individuals and communities to engage in their own knowledge production. He does so by bringing together applied and theoretical methods from computer/data science, human-computer-interaction and critical science & technology studies.
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- openstreetmap
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- open
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- mastodon
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- commons
- data
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All posts (58)
At the end of the year, Codeberg will shut down its old Codeberg Pages server, in favor of the already deployed, git-pages-based alternative.1. For many deployments, migration will be quite straight-forward, requiring little more than using a webhook, as outlined in the migration guide. And this page has already for...
How we politicize technology in service of a better world is an open and contested question. A few days ago I shared a piece on historicising enshittification. In it, Arvind L. U. explores the limits of how Doctorow’s framing around that term is both ahistorical, in that it limits itself to a view that ignores the...
I regularly encounter questions along the lines of “how do we scale things up?, in particular around projects related to free knowledge, FLOSS or citizen science. It has basically started from the first citizen science effort and accompanied me through most of my volunteering work. And it’s a question that has...
This is a slightly shortened cross-post of a blog post which I co-authored with Otto Richter and William Zijl for the Codeberg blog. While some of the specifics of that post might mostly be relevant to Codeberg in particular, the ‘meat’ of the argument felt general enough to warrant being preserved and archived via...
Last week, I had the pleasure of helping a bit with the delivery of a workshop on “open tools for the production and use of cartographic data” in Venado Tuerto, that Silvina Meritano organised as part of her role as community ambassador for the UN Mappers. The workshop was supported and co-organised by the local...
tl;dr: With panoramax.libre.net.ar we have set up the first (public) Panoramax instance in the Americas. It allows the collection of street-level imagery in the Argentine territory. Una versión en español es disponible en OpenStreetMap Panoramax is an open-source system for creating a commons of street-level...
Despite it being a good two years since I’ve made vim my only text editor again, I hadn’t really gotten deeper into using more terminal (or text-base) user interface (TUI) for a while. With Gemini I started reading gemtext, but that was mostly it. But then the tooi-client for Mastodon really became a game changer,...
To mark the 50th anniversary of the military coup in Argentina, commemorative events, marches and protests took place across the country on Tuesday, March 24. Human rights organizations organized events under the slogan “More than ever: Never again!” (más que nunca, nunca más). Using this slogan, people also...
My dislike strong opposition to engaging with “AI” generated things, be that texts, images, code or anything else is well-documented. But avoiding the mindless slop is still getting harder, as it seems that more and more developers, writers – and of course SEO-scum trying to make quick buck – can’t avoid the siren...
During our trip down in Patagonia last week, we passed by many road signs, barriers at viewpoints, trash cans etc. that were sticker bombed by the many visitors that pass by. Typically, it’s an eclectic mix: People put stickers of their favorite soccer club, there will be large numbers of variants of the “Not Bad” /...
At the end of February, I was privileged to spend a week in the Los Glaciares National Park down in Santa Cruz in Argentine Patagonia. Beyond a nice amount of regular hiking, we also got to do a guided tour on the Perito Moreno glacier, spending a good part of the day on the ice with crampons. If you look closely,...
Over a long weekend, between February 14-16, the 19th Tricota Cultural took place in Villa Ani Mi, a small village just north of where I’m currently living. As part of the local Carnaval celebrations in the Sierras Chicas, folks play music, dance and also celebrate with King Momo, represented by a big Papier-mâché...
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