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Subject: 	[FM Discuss] Rebooting the Finnish site
Date: 	Sun, 17 Sep 2023 15:54:32 +0300
From: 	Tomi Toivio <tomi at flossmanuals.net>
Reply-To: 	discuss at lists.flossmanuals.net
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Hello,

Finnish site has been archived for a long time but now I am rebooting it 
again. Already installed Bookstack for editing.

I am planning a couple of manuals that are quite specific to Finnish 
language and political issues and the recent developments in technology.

Research tools for citizen journalists. How to use open source tools for 
research purposes. There was a scandal when citizen journalists were 
digging up old statements by a minister from archive.org 
<http://archive.org>, there are all kinds of open source tools for that 
kind of research.

A little bit like Tech Tools For Activism but focusing on all kinds of 
research tools. It should be called something like Research Tools For 
Activism. Maybe I should get a domain and install all of the tools and 
start an activist research collective. And start every chapter with a 
Guy Debord quote.

I have also been asking OKF and EFF about the ethical limitations of 
things like web scraping. Research like that should respect privacy etc.

Another idea is a manual about Finnish language and open source tools. 
Finnish NLP was always really horrible, but now Spacy 
(https://spacy.io/) handles it really well. There are also Finnish GPT 
models by TurkuNLP (https://turkunlp.org/). Maybe I just include this 
one in the Research Tools For Activism manual.

Generally I am looking for all kinds of open data and data science tools 
that could be used with the limited resources of a citizen journalist or 
an NGO researcher if they get a bit of technical advice.

Let's see how far this goes, I am just going to go ahead with this and 
see what kind of collaborators I will find. I have been talking about 
this with citizen journalism and open data type people. There is no 
formal organization or project for the Finnish site currently, if 
somebody asks I will just say I am working on this project as a member 
of our Linux co-operative.

Anybody interested in collaborating on an international version of this 
in English? For the Finnish version I am going for the things that seem 
to be important for the Finnish civil society, another country might 
have completely different needs. It would be interesting if people from 
different countries and fields collaborated on something like this.

So is anybody interested in collaborating on an English version of this? 
Do you know any open source tools that should be included? Or 
international open source activist research groups?

--
*Tomi Toivio*
Open Source Coordinator
FLOSS Manuals
+358400604828 <tel:+358400604828>
tomi at flossmanuals.net
https://fi.flossmanuals.net
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