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<div class="moz-forward-container">For info, <br>
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<td>[FM Discuss] Rebooting the Finnish site</td>
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<td>Sun, 17 Sep 2023 15:54:32 +0300</td>
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<td>Tomi Toivio <a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:tomi@flossmanuals.net"><tomi@flossmanuals.net></a></td>
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<div dir="ltr">Hello,
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<div>Finnish site has been archived for a long time but now I am
rebooting it again. Already installed Bookstack for editing.</div>
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<div>I am planning a couple of manuals that are quite specific
to Finnish language and political issues and the recent
developments in technology. </div>
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<div>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 <a href="http://archive.org"
moz-do-not-send="true">archive.org</a>, there are all kinds
of open source tools for that kind of research. </div>
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<div>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. </div>
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<div>I have also been asking OKF and EFF about the ethical
limitations of things like web scraping. Research like that
should respect privacy etc. </div>
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<div>Another idea is a manual about Finnish language and open
source tools. Finnish NLP was always really horrible, but now
Spacy (<a href="https://spacy.io/" moz-do-not-send="true"
class="moz-txt-link-freetext">https://spacy.io/</a>) handles
it really well. There are also Finnish GPT models by TurkuNLP
(<a href="https://turkunlp.org/" moz-do-not-send="true"
class="moz-txt-link-freetext">https://turkunlp.org/</a>).
Maybe I just include this one in the Research Tools For
Activism manual.</div>
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<div>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. </div>
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<div>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. </div>
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<div>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.</div>
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<div>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? </div>
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<div><b><font size="4">Tomi Toivio</font></b><br>
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<div>Open Source Coordinator<br>
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<div><a href="mailto:tomi@flossmanuals.net"
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class="moz-txt-link-freetext">tomi@flossmanuals.net</a></div>
<div><a href="https://fi.flossmanuals.net"
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