#communityled — Public Fediverse posts

Really excited to share that we’ve published Thoth Open Metadata’s self-assessment against the Principles of Open Scholarly Infrastructure (POSI). 🎉

For us, this is more than a compliance exercise. It’s an open reflection on how we believe open metadata for books should be governed, sustained, and shared - with community oversight, open-source code, and CC0 data and open APIs at its core. As open access policies evolve, infrastructure transparency matters for publishers, librarians, and policymakers alike. 📚 #MetadataMatters

This work connects directly to the next phase of Thoth’s development - and we’ll be continuing the conversation at the Copim community's #CopimConference tomorrow and on Friday, where we’ll be discussing the future of #communityled #OAbooks and the infrastructure they depend on together with like-minded #openinfras, #libraries, #publishers, and #researchers.

There's no #OpenAccess without #OpenInfrastructure!

https://doi.org/10.70950/sllm9969

Why restoring nature can work so much more effectively when led by local people
#Environment #Nature #Biodiversity #NatureRestoration #EnvironmentalJustice #CommunityLed #ClimateAction #Ecosystem #Sustainability #Biodiversity #LocalKnowledge #GlobalSouth
https://the-14.com/why-restoring-nature-can-work-so-much-more-effectively-when-led-by-local-people/

Exciting news from The Disability Community! 🇨🇦

The Disability Bulletin Issue #1 is now out – a grassroots Canadian newspaper created by (ODSPoor) & (emilypot)

Read it here 👇
https://linktr.ee/thedisabilitybulletin

https://3mpwrapp.pages.dev/community/

#CommunityLed #Disability

We are *super* excited for this event
on Friday, teaming up with Cooperative Alternatives and Positive Carrickfergus to share and explore the glimpses of a better, thriving, resilient future already emerging across community projects in Northern Ireland.

It's not too late to join us for The Future's Already Here: Communities Stepping into their power, a lively one-day event in Carrickfergus, Northern Ireland, to connect, inspire and make visible the change that's happening.

Hear projects reinventing food systems, land and energy, showing the power of collective action, and our awesome keynote Anne Ryan, author of Enough is Plenty and an advocate of the care economy.

Find the programme and link to book here: https://events.transitionmovement.org/transition-together/futureshere/ . and if it's too far to travel, we'll be sharing some of the highlights next week.

#northernireland #carrick #transitiontown #communityled #communityaction #communitypower #climateaction #communityenergy #futureshere #inperson #changemakers

I've volunteered at past work parties at #WellandCommunityOrchard in the past.

This Sunday, I'm taking Mom there for a Summer trees pruning workshop. It's free for seniors & disabled folks to attend 🙂

Gather, harvest, and learn at one of the largest and most diverse #CommunityOrchards in #Canada. Once the backyard of local #conservationist Rex Welland, the #orchard is home to nearly 200 #FruitTrees and vines, including many rare varieties of apple, pear, plum, fig, grape, hazelnut, kiwi, paw paw, and more.
It was Rex’s vision to have his land loved, used, and #stewarded by the public, and since 2013 we’ve been working with the Town of #ViewRoyal to turn the orchard into a #CommunityResource.

https://lifecyclesproject.ca/our-projects/welland-community-orchard

#CommunityBased #CommunityBuilding #CommunitySharing #Wsanec #LekwungenTerritory #Saanich #VancouverIsland #VanIsle #FoodSecurity #PacificNorthwest #PNW #BritishColumbia #CommunityLed #LifecyclesProject #YYJ

Was really sorry to have missed the actual event, but glad there's a video recording available which I'd highly recommend to everyone interested in #communityled open access:

"Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About #OpenAccess Publishing (but were afraid to ask)"

a wonderful and inspiring conversation between esteemed former @copim and @openbookcollect colleague and co-Director of punctum books, Eileen A. Fradenburg Joy, Matthew Cheney ( @melikhovo ), Director of Interdisciplinary Studies, and Robin deRosa ( @actualham ), Director of Open Learning & Teaching Collaborative @OpenCoLab at Plymouth State University, New Hampshire, USA, discussing their experiences with #OAbooks publishing.

Some important truths mentioned in here, e.g. the notion of Neoliberalism, which Eileen, via Wendy Brown, neatly summarises as "everything can, and will be monetised", and which is the main characteristic of large commercial publishing conglomerates such as #Elsevier.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OhqEOgc9Gsg

And the wheels of the conglomeratisation machine keep turning ...

Following the recent (2022) acquisition of Ubiquity,

DeGruyter and Brill now "have joined forces to form De Gruyter Brill" ...

Purportedly, this "also allows the publisher to accelerate the transition to open access and fund technology investments for the benefit of the scholarly community".

Read: their shareholder's profits. 😑

Yet another step towards the corporate enclosure of publishing

... and another reason why our work to establish alternative #communityled #nonprofit #openinfra initiatives such as @copim's @openbookcollect and @Thoth_metadata
is so important!

https://www.degruyter.com/publishing/about-us/press/press-releases/de-gruyter-brill-begins-here

Putting justice at the heart of Transition - what does that really mean? How does it show up in our community-level action? What do we need to change to make it happen?

Just Transition Lead Rona Hardie joined us in the autumn and has been exploring these big questions:

“I want to work alongside those engaging in community-led change to see how a Just Transition approach can be so much more than a tickbox exercise. Rather than being a barrier, it’s an opportunity to strengthen and grow our work for transformation. It is an opportunity to hear and embrace the full range of life experiences and needs, so that we can work to transform the inequality and oppression in current ways of doing things into a better, thriving, resilient future for everyone.”

https://transitiontogether.org.uk/putting-justice-at-the-heart-of-transition/

#transitiontown #justtransition #socialjustice #justice #equity #transition #transitiontowns #communityled #resilience

Really excited to have a number of blog posts out today!

First of these is a brief recap on the Thoth Publishers' Workshop held on Nov 16, 2023

We're grateful for all participating publishers, and are looking forward to more workshops to discuss publishers' needs, and potential #communityled solutions to the issues of #OAbooks #metadata creation, management and dissemination, as well as archiving options for small and #scholarled presses and publishing initiatives that otherwise wouldn't have an option to cover these topics. #MetadataMatters

https://copim.pubpub.org/pub/thoth-publishers-workshop-2023/release/1

@flavoursofopen @openaccessnetwork @OATage Thanks so much to all who helped put Open Access Days 23 #oat23 together! Lots of interesting workshops, inspiring keynotes, and an amazing organising team - it's been a wonderful conference! ♥

Also, what a lovely suprise at the end of three days of conferencing to find our poster has won the audience award on Best Poster Design 😍

Depicted below, the award -- a really lovely Open Access Days 2023 coffee mug & delicious chocolate 😋 thanks so much to the organisers and all who voted on our poster! 🙏🏽

In case you'd like to have another peek, the poster is available on the OAT23 Zenodo community, at https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.8273948

#MetadataMatters #openinfrastructures #opendata #communityled #OAbooks

@Thoth_metadata this is later today (10-11am CEST), so if you are attending Open Access Days 2023 #oat23 and would like to hear more about our open-source one-stop platform for metadata creation and dissemination of cc0-licensed metadata, with which we hope to make #OAbooks publishers' lives easier, do join me for a chat at the poster session (Thoth is poster # 11 - oh, and did we mention there will be free Thoth bags?)

Oh, and our poster is also available online, find it at
https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.8273948

#MetadataMatters #openinfrastructures #opendata #communityled

On my way to Berlin, to attend an #oat23 satellite event tomorrow before then going all-in at Open-Access-Days 2023!

The satellite event will be focusing on #communityled #openaccess publishing, and I'll be providing input on the important #governance work undertaken in @copim and expertly guided by @openreflections and colleagues from COPIM WP4 over the last 3.5 years that has enabled us to launch, among many other important #OAbooks-related outputs, the @openbookcollect and @Thoth_metadata - both much-needed #notforprofit #communityled infrastructures to bring about an equitable and bibliodiverse #not-for-profit #openinfra ecosystem for #OAbooks in the Humanities, Social Sciences #hss and beyond. #oat23ibi

@oatp

Oh, look, @evinale & @ahacker (and with apologies to our co-authors, and editor Marcel Wrzesinski at HIIG whom I couldn't find on the #fediverse), our German-language #Governance booklet has been published! 🎉😀

#communityled #OAjournals #diamondOA

Dalkilic, Evin, Hacker, Andrea, Hesse, Cindy, Jobmann, Alexandra, Kirchner, Andreas, Pampel, Heinz, Siegert, Olaf, & Steiner, Tobias. (2023). Handreichung Governance und Rechtsform. In Wissenschaftsgeleitetes Publizieren. Sechs Handreichungen mit Praxistipps und Perspektiven (pp. 83–96). Alexander von Humboldt Institut für Internet und Gesellschaft. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.8210966

Today we celebrate the birth of James Baldwin, an acclaimed writer and activist, who brought us this amazing quote on "Community" #communityled, #communitymanager, #communitybuilding, #communitymanagement #cmgr #communityprofessional #communityhistorian

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Baldwin

hear hear : https://blogs.lse.ac.uk/impactofsocialsciences/2023/04/03/greater-expectations-the-academic-library-should-be-a-benefactor-for-community-owned-publishing/ #openaccess #libraries #communityled

Got to spend 2 weeks on a short-term scientific mission through the #AlienCSI Cost Action at ATU Sligo in Ireland. This #STSM allowed me to learn more about #stakeholderengagement especially around #BiologicalInvasions

The STSM ended on Friday whith a chance to attend a kick-off event for #communityled project on the control of #invasive Rhododendron in 🇮🇪

Incredibly grateful for all the people who allowed me to learn from their experiences. Excited to bring back many new ideas to 🇮🇸

#introductions

Hi, I'm Monica aka @theneurotrust
she/her
Masters of #Architecture student
currently residing in the Bay area

excited to follow #antioppression, #anticapitalist, and #QTBIPOC groups

Interested in learning more about #communityled #democraticgovernance in #communityorganizing, #workerowned coops, etc

@hypolite
Agree. We have donated a small amount to #freeLicense, #communityLed projects, and have not given a cent to #GAFAM, #Cloudflare and other #closedSilos in past years.

@aseem