André Castro @blcktofu@post.lurk.org

On the 30th of january the #XMPP community is organizing a development sprint focused on #UX and #UI in the XMPP ecosystem.

XMPP is a long standing protocol for federated chat which in recent years underwent impressive technical modernization that brought the ecosystem modern mobile clients, cross device chat and end-to-end encryption based on Signal.

The XMPP community organizes so-called sprints where developers gather from across Europe to work on the ecosystem.

Even though the ecosystem saw many improvements in recent years, the UX across the ecosystem still leaves a lot to be desired. To begin addressing this, the next XMPP Sprint will be focused on UX and UI, particularly in regards to naming conventions.

That is why we’d like to invite members of the open source design community to join us on the 30th of January in the offices of Open Source Publishing[1]. On february the 1st we will also do a smaller meetup in the margins of FOSDEM.

If you already have an account on the XMPP network, join us in our Sprint chatroom:
xmpp:xmpp-sprint@chat.cluxia.eu?join

If you don’t, the room is also accessible without an account via:
https://chat.cluxia.eu/anon/#xmpp-sprint

For more information have a look at:
https://wiki.xmpp.org/web/Sprints/2019_January_Brussels

[1]: http://osp.kitchen

It's a new year! Dennis (de Bel) is back, the window is broken and l'intolerant #18 is out. Enough reasons to come together and have a drink.

This Friday, the 11th of January, from 19:30, Varia opens its doors for some special new year's drinks and some fitting music.

Woodstone Kugelblitz will also be presenting the latest issue of L'Intolerant #18: A Really Useful Cookbook.

Almost everyone is welcome and the entrance is free. However, a voluntary donation of 5 euros will help us replace our window and is greatly appreciated!

See you there!

http://varia.zone/en/borrel2019.html

Open source art means nothing is ever done

One page of drawings, infinite variations

http://eleanorg.org/blog/open-source-illustration-infinite-variations

#artwithopensource #mastoart

training a neural network to "caption" summary vectors of lines of poetry, then using the network to generate text for summary vectors of arbitrary sentences. this is after seven epochs of training on my laptop last night; source line is first, output is second

#libregraphics call for presentations is out:
https://libregraphicsmeeting.org/2019/proposal-submission/

Dear ${USER},

XPUB Master is open for applications!

We focus on ${TRENDING_MEMES}, our staff includes ${GREAT_TUTORS}
and we regularly collaborate with ${OBVIOUS_NAME_DROPPING_IS_OBVIOUS}.

Non-EU + EU priority Deadline: 01.03.19

http://www.pzwart.nl/experimental-publishing/

${HASHTAGS}

Special Issue 07
Start up 📈 , Burn out 📉: Life Hacks 📌

Thursday December 13, 19:30-21:30 at Het Nieuwe Instituut in #Rotterdam with #XPUB under the influence of #lifehacker and #protip guru @entreprecariat!

https://issue.xpub.nl/07

hey! saturday the 8th of december we're organizing an event in #varia in #rotterdam about #mastodon and the #fediverse

https://varia.zone/en/mastodon-and-fediverse.html

We will dive into what the fediverse is, how it works, who is on there, who made it, what it means to host communities and how and where on can contribute.

'The Museum of Imaginary Musical Instruments'
http://imaginaryinstruments.org/

Zine-machines coming up! Bring your laptop. https://zine-machines.kstraat.casa/

i'm not a low-tech kind of person, but gotta say, there's something i really like about this website design:

https://solar.lowtechmagazine.com/

TinyTeX: A lightweight and easy-to-maintain LaTeX distribution
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18161344
#hackernews #tech

A new piece by @JulianOliver and I - Vending Private Network - a publicly funded network infrastructure for private communication, 1EUR/GBP a pop. Currently on display at Furthermore, London https://criticalengineering.org/projects/vending-private-network/

Hello Mastodon!
I'm an Oxford-based artist & #illustrator - here are some iterations of #illustrations made with @inkscape

Source drawings all available on my website:
http://eleanorg.org/blog/illustration-oxford-botanic-gardens

Download + enjoy 🙂

#mastoart #artwithopensource