This is good to see! I'll find it difficult to meet in Oxford but I wish
this endeavour the best of luck!
G
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Dear All,
(Here's the first set of events for the group some of us were discussing
earlier - they're now released!)
Have you ever thought about how the software we use affects our autonomy
and right-to-repair the devices we increasingly rely on? Our privacy?
The reproducibility of our research?
This January-March (2026) we are hosting a series of events <https://
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why and how to self-host your FLOSS services <https://
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a guided, social workshop to contribute to FLOSS <https://
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(via any of bug reporting, triaging, programming, translation, community-building, and so on
--- no technical skills needed!)
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an introduction to the programmable text editor and wider
productivity tool, Emacs <https://
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stavrou&data=05%7C02%7Cgreg.matthews%40diamond.ac.uk%7C013cabf696e74d0228c108de5b71eca9%7C9d27ba7401004d0d81ff1d728dae8df6%7C0%7C0%7C639048742635291737%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJFbXB0eU1hcGkiOnRydWUsIlYiOiIwLjAuMDAwMCIsIlAiOiJXaW4zMiIsIkFOIjoiTWFpbCIsIldUIjoyfQ%3D%3D%7C60000%7C%7C%7C&sdata=s7Td8coutM9agvMb0Ct8ONXhzXcEWSL01mbJkXsSDmo%3D&reserved=0>
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teaching high school students research computing <https://
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an introduction to a bioinformatics community and code library
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There are both in-person events in Oxford and online ones. Everyone is
welcome, including students, academics, staff, and people unaffiliated
to a University. You are welcome to just turn up (as long as you follow
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To enable broad participation, we have scheduled events on different
days on a weekly basis, and at different times --- feel free to join as
many as you are able to, and please share this widely! A poster is
attached to help with this.
If you have any questions, please email [email protected]
<mailto:[email protected]> and
[email protected]
<mailto:[email protected]>, or look at our website
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Kind regards,
Oliver Geer (Hertford College, Computer Science and Philosophy) and
Laura Fortunato (Magdalen College, Anthropology, Software Freedom
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