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Karsten Schmidt<p>Reading about Google keeping their long tradition of discontinuing products/services, often after just a few years[1]. On the other hand, the minimal "bus factor"[2] of my open source offerings is one of the stated reasons for people to not use them, even though the vast majority of the 200+ <a href="https://thi.ng/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="">thi.ng/</span><span class="invisible"></span></a> libraries &amp; tools has been actively maintained for much longer than many Google projects (99% by this single person)... Even many of my older projects which are defunkt by now have had an active period which outlasted many Google services, and — crucially — they're are stable, still available and can still be used now (e.g. my Java library collection developed between 2005-2013 still has regular users)...</p><p>Maybe internal politics, re-orgs and layoffs in BigTech are an equal/bigger risk factor for users (aside from other differences in design philosophy and resulting coupling and tech debt, e.g. massive all-in frameworks vs. lightweight composable pick-n-mix toolkits)? 🤔</p><p>[1] <a href="https://killedbygoogle.com/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="">killedbygoogle.com/</span><span class="invisible"></span></a><br>[2] <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bus_factor" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bus_fact</span><span class="invisible">or</span></a></p><p><a href="https://mastodon.thi.ng/tags/OpenSource" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>OpenSource</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.thi.ng/tags/BusFactor" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>BusFactor</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.thi.ng/tags/Maintenance" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Maintenance</span></a></p>
Henrik Schönemann<p>Please share with your colleagues:<br>Asking all US-based scientists:<br>Are there repositories of <a href="https://fedihum.org/tags/OpenAccess" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>OpenAccess</span></a> papers etc. pp. that need mirrored?<br>(I'm proud <a href="https://fedihum.org/tags/GuerillaOpenAccess" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>GuerillaOpenAccess</span></a>, but not currently trying to do an Aaron Swartz <a href="https://fedihum.org/tags/RIP" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>RIP</span></a> 😢)</p><p>You've got research to safeguard?<br>Consider uploading to <a href="https://zenodo.org" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="">zenodo.org</span><span class="invisible"></span></a> (run by CERN, well established, trustworthy, you can private your uploads)</p><p>To organize: <a href="https://matrix.to/#/#safeguarding-research:matrix.org" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">matrix.to/#/#safeguarding-rese</span><span class="invisible">arch:matrix.org</span></a><br>(Everyone welcome! <a href="https://fedihum.org/tags/BusFactor" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>BusFactor</span></a>)</p><p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://a.gup.pe/u/academicchatter" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>academicchatter</span></a></span> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://a.gup.pe/u/academicsunite" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>academicsunite</span></a></span></p>
Mike Hucka<p>People who use GitHub: have you designated an account successor in case something happens to you?</p><p>A successor cannot log into your account, but can manage your public repositories after presenting proof of your death. </p><p>Probably something we should all&nbsp;do sooner rather than later, especially if we're responsible for projects that other people rely on …</p><p><a href="https://docs.github.com/en/account-and-profile/setting-up-and-managing-your-personal-account-on-github/managing-access-to-your-personal-repositories/maintaining-ownership-continuity-of-your-personal-accounts-repositories" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">docs.github.com/en/account-and</span><span class="invisible">-profile/setting-up-and-managing-your-personal-account-on-github/managing-access-to-your-personal-repositories/maintaining-ownership-continuity-of-your-personal-accounts-repositories</span></a><br><a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/GitHub" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>GitHub</span></a> <a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/BusFactor" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>BusFactor</span></a></p>
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