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📢 Coming up: My 15-minute online talk about open source software/hardware for the #WILDLABS conservation tech community at
🗓16:00 UTC on 29 Oct 2025:

🔗 Details and registration: https://wildlabs.net/event/variety-hour-october-2025

🐸 If you're interested in what open source tech is and why it's important for biodiversity conservation, then hope to see you there!

#OpenSource #OpenScience #nature #wildlife #biodiversity #conservation

Thanks to all who attended. The video recording of the #WILDLABS panel on #funding #opensource conservation technologies has been published here:

https://wildlabs.net/event/sustainable-financing-open-source-conservation-tech-open-source-solutions-funding-and-finance

Looking forward to the next event!

#conservation #biodiversity #OpenHardware #opensource

Wondering how to make #opensource tech financially sustainable? I'm co-organising an online #WILDLABS community meeting on 15 May 2025 to discuss the challenges and opportunities for #funding open source #conservation tech.

Peter van Lunteren of AddaxDataScience.com, Susan Allen of FieldKit.org, and Alasdair Davies of Arribada.org will discuss sustainable pathways to fund open source work, with Q&A and discussion.

Register here:
https://wildlabs.net/event/sustainable-financing-open-source-conservation-tech-open-source-solutions-funding-and-finance

If you could send/receive 100KB of data from anywhere on the planet via satellite; what would you send? #conservationtech #wildlabs -- the 100KB challenge -- https://wildlabs.net/discussion/100kb-challenge

If you could send/receive 100KB of data from anywhere on the planet via satellite; what would you send? #conservationtech #wildlabs -- the 100KB challenge -- https://wildlabs.net/discussion/100kb-challenge

Interesting alternative to using PIR for automated wildlife cameras, this uses a VL53L4CD Time of Flight Distance Sensor, so it can work with reptiles (cold!) https://hackaday.io/project/192032-openthing-2-reptrap // might be faster than PIR for birds etc too? #wildlabs #conservation #conservationtech

Interesting alternative to using PIR for automated wildlife cameras, this uses a VL53L4CD Time of Flight Distance Sensor, so it can work with reptiles (cold!) https://hackaday.io/project/192032-openthing-2-reptrap // might be faster than PIR for birds etc too? #wildlabs #conservation #conservationtech

Interesting alternative to using PIR for automated wildlife cameras, this uses a VL53L4CD Time of Flight Distance Sensor, so it can work with reptiles (cold!) https://hackaday.io/project/192032-openthing-2-reptrap // might be faster than PIR for birds etc too? #wildlabs #conservation #conservationtech

Interesting alternative to using PIR for automated wildlife cameras, this uses a VL53L4CD Time of Flight Distance Sensor, so it can work with reptiles (cold!) https://hackaday.io/project/192032-openthing-2-reptrap // might be faster than PIR for birds etc too? #wildlabs #conservation #conservationtech

Interesting alternative to using PIR for automated wildlife cameras, this uses a VL53L4CD Time of Flight Distance Sensor, so it can work with reptiles (cold!) https://hackaday.io/project/192032-openthing-2-reptrap // might be faster than PIR for birds etc too? #wildlabs #conservation #conservationtech

Interesting review paper in 'Trends in
Ecology & Evolution' #biodiversity #AI #wildlabs "We present the results of our horizon scan of AI applications likely to significantly benefit biological conservation. An international panel of conservation scientists and AI experts identified 21 key ideas."https://research.bangor.ac.uk/portal/en/researchoutputs/the-potential-for-ai-to-revolutionize-conservation-a-horizon-scan(89ef0762-4e56-433c-9cd1-7b36efa9863a).html

This is a really interesting award for conservation technology, from WILDLABS! "15 projects to receive 5 grants of $50,000 and 10 grants of $10,000, engineering and technology support from Arm, and access to the world’s biggest conservation technology community." #conservation #wildlabs https://wildlabs.net/funding-opportunity/wildlabs-awards-2025-apply-now // you can see past award winners on a link from that page too!

I don't think the Wildlabs.net folk are on here (sadly), but they've got an excellent looking conservation tech fund open at the moment.

The Boring Fund - $50k (up to $12.5k for one project)

Looking to fund documenting, events, tech debt paydown, maintenance...

https://wildlabs.net/article/boring-fund-apply-today

#WildLabs #OSHW #OpenSource #conservation #maintenance #funding

Details of my BSc taught course "AI for Nature and Environment": http://mcld.co.uk/blog/2023/bsc-taught-course-ai-for-nature-and-environment.html #ai4good #climatechangeai #wildlabs