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Quinn Slobodian @quinnslobodian.com · 08/09/2026

Reposting the piece @williamcallison.bsky.social and I wrote seven years ago about Sahra Wagenknecht who is in a position now, if she chooses, to put AfD in power in Saxony-Anhalt. Wolfgang Streeck remains among her advisers. dissentmagazine.org/article/pop-...

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Pop-Up Populism: The Failure of Left-Wing Nationalism in Germany

Aufstehen’s leaders insisted that their movement was not defined by its opposition to migrants. But they consistently cast migrants as either pawns in the game of finance capital or as the phony poste...

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Sovereign Tech Agency @sovereign.tech · 04/03/2026

In Brussels 🇪🇺 today, Paul Sharratt is participating in the 4th meeting of the #CyberResilienceAct Expert Group, representing @sovereign.tech Agency in discussions on #CRA implementation. Drawing on our experience in the open source ecosystem, we are contributing expertise to help ensure the CRA 1/3

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Dr. Dawn Foster @geekygirldawn.bsky.social · 27/01/2025

It's not too late to register for State of Open Con in London on Feb 4 -5! I'll be on the keynote stage and joining a panel to talk about open source rug pulls, relicensing, and forks. I hope you'll join me! stateofopencon.com/attend-2025/ #StateOfOpenCon #SOOCon25

Social media card with my picture and a picture of the London skyline with St. Paul's Cathedral in the background. Text reads: Dawn Foster Director of Data Science, CHAOSS Project. Meet the Forkers: Forking Update. Future of Open Source Plenaries, 4th Feb. OpenUK Presents State of Open Con 25. 4-5 February 2025. Sancroft, St. Paul's, London. stateofopencon.com #stateofopencon

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Sovereign Tech Agency @sovereign.tech · 13/12/2024

In collaboration with Cailean Osborne, @geekygirldawn.bsky.social, and @mirkoboehm.bsky.social, @psharratt.bsky.social , STA’s Policy and Research Manager, has co-authored "A Toolkit for Measuring the Impacts of Public Funding on Open Source Software Development." 2/3

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Sovereign Tech Agency @sovereign.tech · 19/11/2024

What’s the Impact of Funding Open Source? Check out the paper that @psharratt.bsky.social presented at OpenForum Symposium together with Cailean Osborne (Oxford Internet Institute, University of Oxford), @geekygirldawn.bsky.social CHAOSS and Mirko Boehm linuxfoundation.org arxiv.org/abs/2411.06027

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Paul Sharratt @psharratt.bsky.social · 12/11/2024

I'm beyond chuffed to present our paper on methods to measure the impact of public funding on OSS development at the OFA Symposium at Harvard's Digital, Data, and Design (D^3) Institute this week. (1/2)

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Dr. Dawn Foster @geekygirldawn.bsky.social · 12/11/2024

(3/3) Second, I'm going to talk about the research I've been doing to look at projects that have relicensed to non-oss licenses that have resulted in forks. You can find the paper, presentation, and data here: github.com/chaoss/wg-da...

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CHAOSS Data Science Working Group: collaborate and improve open source project health using data science-based approaches - chaoss/wg-data-science

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Dr. Dawn Foster @geekygirldawn.bsky.social · 12/11/2024

(2/3) First, we're talking about a toolkit for measuring the impact of public funding for OSS projects. This is work I've been doing with @psharratt.bsky.social Cailean Osborne and @mirkoboehm.bsky.social. This NGI post has a good summary: commons.ngi.eu/2024/11/12/m... and has a link to the paper.

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Measuring the Impacts of Public Funding on Open Source Software Development

Open source software (OSS) has become critical digital infrastructure, powering approximately 96% of codebases and constituting up to 90% of commercial software stacks. Traditionally maintained by vol...

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Dr. Dawn Foster @geekygirldawn.bsky.social · 12/11/2024

I'm super excited to be in Boston this week for OFE's OpenForum Academy (OFA) Symposium where I get to talk about some of the research I've been doing! symposium.openforumeurope.org (1/3)

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