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Lynn Stahl @msbtterswrth.altgov.info · 15/09/2026

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Thousands of government sites run on USWDS. It's what makes them 508 compliant, trustworthy and easy to update. We're scrambling to make backups in case of catastrophe, but this will be a hugely time-consuming and costly mistake if they intend to rip it out and replace it with vibe coded trash.

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Aaron Freeman @aaronfreemanca.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

This is a great heads-up summary in The Energy Mix of what to expect at PM Carney's Canada' Investment Summit next week: 250 Elite Investors, 167 Pitches: Some Clean Economy Projects Make the Cut as Canada Investment Summit Convenes in Toronto www.theenergymix.com/250-elite-in...

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250 Elite Investors, 167 Pitches: Some Clean Economy Projects Make the Cut as Canada Investment Summit Convenes in Toronto

With as many as 250 of the world’s top investors converging on Toronto next week for Prime Minister Mark Carney’s Canada Investment Summit, news reports say pipelines, nuclear plants, railways, AI…

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Mike Gifford, CPWA @ox.ca · 22/08/2026

Plus what does Google think the difference is?

Mike Gifford, CPWA @ox.ca · 18/08/2026

I like the argument about complexity. What about showing 2 available actions rather than two states? In System mode: Light / Dark. After a Light override: System / Dark. After a Dark override: System / Light. The active state is omitted, while System remains explicit & either theme can be pinned.

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Drupal Association @drupalassociation.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

⏰️ Haven't cast your vote for the 2026 Drupal Association At-Large Board Election yet? Voting closes on 14 August 2026 at 23:59 UTC. Don't let your voice go unheard. Check your inbox for the ballot email from ‘Helios Voting’ and make your vote count! 🔗 More details at www.drupal.org/association/...

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Mike Gifford, CPWA @ox.ca · 08/08/2026

Looking forward to it!

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Mike Gifford, CPWA @ox.ca · 08/08/2026

So love the Woody Guthrie quote.

Mike Gifford, CPWA @ox.ca · 07/08/2026

Day 2 of #FOSSY at #UBC in #Vancouver starting strong. Photos from the #Right2Repair panel & Elizabeth Barron of the @thephpf.bsky.social

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Mike Gifford, CPWA @ox.ca · 06/08/2026

So how is the privacy of it? Decent connection with phone? Useful for more than time?

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Mike Gifford, CPWA @ox.ca · 24/07/2026

"The difficult is done at once, the impossible takes a little longer" — Anthony Trollope's novel Phineas Redux (1873)

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Drupal Association @drupalassociation.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

🗳️ Check your inbox, Ripple Makers! Your ballot for the 2026 Drupal Association At-Large Board Election has been sent. Head to your email and cast your vote before August 14th! Get to know the candidates and find all the details you need on our Election page 👉 www.drupal.org/association/...

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Mike Gifford, CPWA @ox.ca · 20/07/2026

Finally, we have to start planning for emergencies. We're seeing more extreme weather. How do we see we aren't leaving behind the most vulnerable to "fend for themselves" mgifford.github.io/inclusive-em...

Home | Resilience Comms: The Inclusive Emergency Blueprint

A practical guide for emergency managers and government teams to send accessible alerts that reach everyone — including people with disabilities.

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Mike Gifford, CPWA @ox.ca · 20/07/2026

My other idea is neighbourhood solar. It's not just up to governments, but governments can facilitate and encoruage initiateves like mgifford.github.io/neighbourhoo...

A resident-led effort to make solar, battery backup, and home energy upgrades easier, cheaper, and more transparent in Ottawa, Ontario.

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Mike Gifford, CPWA @ox.ca · 20/07/2026

@ecologyottawa.bsky.social I have a few too many ideas for a form for Steal These Ideas! Nice campaign btw www.ecologyottawa.ca/steal_these_... I do hope that others steal the idea too to push for good, green policies.

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Election candidates: Steal These Ideas!

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Mike Gifford, CPWA @ox.ca · 15/07/2026

“The purpose of life is not to be happy at all. It is to be useful, to be honorable. It is to be compassionate. It is to matter, to have it make some difference that you lived." -- Leo Rosten

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Mike Gifford, CPWA @ox.ca · 13/07/2026

Big ideas often sound unrealistic until they become inevitable. Shiv Malik explores why incremental thinking won't solve today's housing crisis, and what it would take to build a city for a million people. challengercities.substack.com/p/challenger... #Cities #Housing #UrbanPlanning #FutureCities

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Challenger Cities EP90: It Only Sounds Mad Because We Think Small with Shiv Malik

Listen now | A journalist, a few thousand pounds and forty people working for free want to build a city for a million people next to Cambridge. The maddest thing about it is how sane it is.

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Mike Gifford, CPWA @ox.ca · 12/07/2026

Installing #solar 1 house at a time leaves a lot of value on the table. What if neighbours planned together? How about #Ottawa & specifically #Centretown - Shared buying power - Lower costs - Better #battery options - More resilient communities - Less #CO2 mgifford.github.io/neighbourhoo...

A resident-led effort to make solar, battery backup, and home energy upgrades easier, cheaper, and more transparent in Ottawa, Ontario.

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Mike Gifford, CPWA @ox.ca · 01/07/2026

We will see. I hope Canada 🇨🇦 will come around.

mmorba-a11y.bsky.social @mmorba-a11y.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

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I´m still hoping for a new approach of an EU powered project, not wasting +2 millions for some not accessible PDF-Slides ;-( cordis.europa.eu/project/id/7... Or can´t Canada start something? Germany just proved yesterday, that no company will be harmed for EAA "Human rights violations".

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Deliverables, publications, datasets, software, exploitable results

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Sovereign Tech Agency @sovereign.tech · 30/06/2026

In early June, we announced that we had signed a Memorandum of Understanding with DIN Deutsches Institut für Normung e. V. (the German Institute for Standardization) to strengthen open source participation in international standards development. Photo: Peter-Paul Weiler

Adriana Groh and Christoph Winterhalter at the signing of the Memorandum of Understanding shaking hands, sitting at a desk next to each other

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Mike Gifford, CPWA @ox.ca · 28/06/2026

Simple quote seen at UN Open Source Week: "be the catalist that makes the world work better" #UNOSW #NYC #OpenSource

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Sovereign Tech Agency @sovereign.tech · 26/06/2026

Final stretch at UN Open Source Week! 🏁 Today, we're joining the Community-Led Side Events organized by RISE (Research Institutes of Sweden), @openforumeurope.org, @curiossorg.bsky.social, and Red Hat, hosted by IBM.

Community event with attendees listening to a speaker. Text announces: “Public Investment for Open Source Infrastructure: The Sovereign Tech Agency Model in a Global Ecosystem,” with partner logos at the bottom.

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Drupal Association @drupalassociation.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

🏛️ Got insights on how government agencies can maximize #Drupal? Share them at #DrupalGovCon! The #CallForSpeakers is open until June 26, so lock in your topics today! ⏰ 📆 August 11–13, 2026 🏫 University of Maryland, College Park 🔗 Apply to speak here: sessionize.com/drupal-govco...

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Mike Gifford, CPWA @ox.ca · 23/06/2026

Day 2 of UN Open Source Week! Focused on Open Source AI. Inspiring words from Adriana Groh & Thomas Jarzombek ("Public Money, Public Code"). Great to be with the #Drupal community, including Timothy Lehnen & Tiffany Farriss.👇 #UNOSW #OpenSource #FOSS

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Sovereign Tech Agency @sovereign.tech · 22/06/2026

The second #Maintainathon at #UNOpenSourceWeek brought together more than 100 participants across two tracks and 15 sessions: maintainers, governments, NGOs, researchers, OSPOs, and open source communities speaking openly about what it actually takes to sustain critical digital infrastructure.

Tiffany Farriss hosting the session “Governance at Scale: What Actually Travels”

Small group discussion in the capacity-building room.

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Drupal Association @drupalassociation.bsky.social · 22/06/2026

🇺🇳 United Nations Open Source Week 2026 has officially kickstarted today at the United Nations Headquarters in New York! The Drupal Association is honored to be part of this premier global forum. Stay tuned for more updates! 🌐✨ #Drupal #OpenSource #AI #UNOpenSourceWeek

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Sovereign Tech Agency @sovereign.tech · 22/06/2026

Two tracks are run in parallel: Technical Maintenance room brings maintainers together to share knowledge on the practice of open source maintenance. The Capacity & Stewardship room is focused on how organizations, institutions, and governments can better support critical open source technologies.

Erik Möller presenting in the Capacity & Stewardship room during the session, “How Sovereign Tech Agency invests in critical open source infrastructure — and what’s next”

The full Capacity & Stewardship room, in the foreground is someone with a purple t-shirt reading “UN Tech Over Maintain-a-thon”

The technical maintenance room at the 2026 maintain-a-thon during the first session with Thilo Borgmann “How to start your journey and get into open source”. It’s a full room with people sitting around a large oval table.

View of the technical maintenance room at the 2026 maintain-a-thon, around 20 people are visible listening and working on ther laptopos

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Mike Gifford, CPWA @ox.ca · 22/06/2026

That would be great. It has been too long.

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Mike Gifford, CPWA @ox.ca · 21/06/2026

I am in NYC for the UN Open Source Week! Anyone want to get together tonight for dinner? #UNOSW #UnitedNations

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Mike Gifford, CPWA @ox.ca · 20/06/2026

How should it look compared to what we have now and the GDPR.

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Mike Gifford, CPWA @ox.ca · 18/06/2026

No sales pitches. No exclusive vendors. Just neighbours helping neighbours make informed decisions. (Note: I am also curious why this worked on #Mastodon but a similar post here didn't "work"). More hackers on Mastodon?

Mike Gifford, CPWA @ox.ca · 18/06/2026

What if neighbours worked together to make solar, battery backup & home electrification easier and more affordable? I'm exploring a community-led model for Ottawa that focuses on transparency, resilience & reducing costs through neighbourhood-scale adoption. mgifford.github.io/neighbourhoo...

A resident-led effort to make solar, battery backup, and home energy upgrades easier, cheaper, and more transparent in Ottawa, Ontario.

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Mike Gifford, CPWA @ox.ca · 16/06/2026

What if neighbours worked together to make solar, battery backup, and home electrification easier and more affordable? I'm exploring a community-led model for Ottawa. No sales pressure. No exclusive vendors. Just transparency and shared learning. mgifford.github.io/neighbourhoo...

A resident-led effort to make solar, battery backup, and home energy upgrades easier, cheaper, and more transparent in Ottawa, Ontario.

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Mike Gifford, CPWA @ox.ca · 11/06/2026

Happy to turn it on again if it were useful to someone