Oleg Lavrovsky - define:soda

time

086 #christmas

A short post to mark the passing of a challenging year with assisted art and borrowed thoughts.

events

085 #opendatach

Some brief impressions of the Opendata.ch conference and anniversary.

conference

084 #makedatanotwar

Report on a meeting of staff and members of the Open Knowledge Network in Barcelona.

space

083 #ashestoashes

We, the global citizens, who stand with the people of the Ukraine, solemnly condemn and repent all acts of war.

data

082 #mysynthetic

Data that „are not obtained by direct measurement“ deserve more openness.

kids

081 #familygames

Family-friendly computer gaming tips along with thoughts on play time and playing well.

health

080 #kinderohnetabak

Thoughts on the politics and images of smoke. Please make use of the ashtray on your way through.

coding

079 #dribdat

The latest news about dribdat, the open source platform for impactful hackathons.

demoscene

078 #playbern #gamejam

A short recap of the PlayBern 2021 event, with a focus on our annual Game Jam.

python

077 #dribdat

A half-way point in the dribdat roadmap, this release is dedicated to SHARKS! by architect Jaimie Shorten.

data

076 #activitywatch

Visualising my quantified computing while ruminating on the state of data culture.

geospatial

075 #geohackmin

Our Open Data Day 2021 gathering to boost the state of open government geodata

conference

074 #fosdem

This post recounts experiences from FOSDEM'21, a massively multiplatform weekend of all things Free & Open source, which I begin with an excerpt from the blog of Albert "Bash" Yumol, Data Scientist and Tech For the People Activist. Our lives may look a bit disarrayed, but it only

hackathon

072 #hackdays

A look back at a year of (mostly online) hackathons, with some thoughts upon their setting and impact.

youth

071 #playbern #gamejam

Glimpses from behind the scenes of the 2020 Game Jam at the PlayBern Festival for Games and Culture.

geospatial

070 #urbandata

Building on the interest in urban data projects described on this blog before, this post goes into some more depth about what we are up to at Cividi, a startup building digital tools and open data sources for civic urbanism. Spatial Data Package ViewerWe at Cividi are developing our plattform

hackathon

069 #dribdat

It has been a very busy year. Swept up in the pandemic with the rest of the world, our local communities did their best to make hackathons a meeting point for data activists and concerned citizens.

health

068 #covid19mon

Monitoring COVID-19 Effects in an open data remote workshop, where over the course of seven days the participants contributed to a range of datasets to analyse the pandemic.

067 #hangupyourhangups

"Since many weeks, epidemiologists around the world had been looking at the COVID situation with great worry." The world has gone from denial to panic to resignation.

hackathon

066 #opendataday #energyhack2020

The COVID-19 outbreak forced us to go for a virtual hackathon during Open Data Day 2020. Find out what we learned and what's next for open energy data!

hackathon

065 #swihack

A recap of the hackathon on empowering linguistic diversity in newsrooms, the first event of this type hosted in the SRG SSR headquarters, bringing together journalists and media experts with diverse participants to collaborate on innovative media ideas.

health

064 #amld2020 #health

Tweets related to Artificial Intelligence and Public Health at the EPFL Applied Machine Learning Days 2020.

data

063 #amld2020 #mobility

The Applied Machine Learning Days are back at the Swiss Federal Institutes of Technology of Lausanne for the fourth time. A five-day extravaganza took place with 31 hands-on sessions, 29 tracks of presentations, over 2'500 visitors. And 1 very important virtual speaker, Edward Snowden. Excellent in-depth coverage was done (in

space

062 #ai #opendebate

"I am what I earn?..." ironically asks a digital mirror in a temporary installation at the Effinger coworking space aiming to artfully demonstrate a range of applications for Artificial Intelligence. This automatic salary estimator was the most popular part of my performance in an evening event at Effinger, which included

space

061 #cities

A new year's post about the pace of change, on working with architects, and keeping a balanced outlook on progress.