Tag: Free Software

  • WikidataShow

    Some of you might know our project about school archives. This catalogues historical sources about schools and helps researchers to find these sources easier. One big problem we came across when building this platform was the effort to collect basic information about a school. This is very time-consuming (there are more than 1000 schools in…

  • Free as in freedom

    This week Mozilla laid off one third of their workers. This (sadly) supports the claim that tech is right now not really capable of maintaining non-profit structures for their main services. Free software works quite well for backend, but not really for frontend. I just stumbled upon this interesting piece of a guy who used…

  • Sustainable Software

    When we are talking about free software, the point is often that this is more sustainable than proprietary software because everyone can edit the code and even if your company goes bankrupt someone else can take over and go on coding. Actually, in many open source projects there is only one person doing most of…

  • How to make your own Raspberry Pi Musicbox

    This is not about NLP, but I think it is worth sharing, so here we go 😉 I really like the project PiMusicbox, the raspberry pi is just the perfect device to host a music server, especially the model B1, which is also a little bit slow when it comes to video playback. But there…