Oleg Lavrovsky

appliedml

092 #appliedmldays

A brief review of the Applied Machine Learning Days special edition on Generative AI.

iot

091 #makeselfie

A workshop and hackathon project on self-tracking for MakeZurich 2023.

diversity

090 #aletsdat

Proposing a new open structure for Datalets, around a set of commitments that invite your feedback and participation.

time

089 #datalets

An outline of my motivations to build and boost the open web.

demoscene

088 #mountainbytes

A spectacular event brought the demoscene to the Swiss Alps for a weekend.

hackathon

087 #ckan

Slides and notes from a presentation and discussion at the CKAN Monthly community meeting.

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.