FEDIDEVS

Daphne Auer discusses user-driven re-ranking for adapting the variety in search results. #OSSYM24

Great monologue of Renée Ridgway about the ethics and values of open source and open search. #OSSYM24

Great talk by Alex de Vries on energy efficiency of search: the big culprit is AI. ChatGPT takes at least 10 times more energy than a "standard" (already quite wasteful) Google search. #OSSYM24

Rik Viergever from e/OS and Murena discusses the open source maps app to be develooed for the Murena smartphones. #OSSYM24

Nina Leseberg of Wikimedia Deutschland: Wikimedia is making a text-based version of Wikidata, so LLMs can "read" it (=trained on it). #ironic #OSSYM24

"The gini coefficient of the distributiion of traffic on websites in Germany equals... 0.988 (1.0 would be all traffic to one site)"
Martin Andree at #OSSYM24

https://atlasderdigitalenwelt.de/

Richard Socher from https://you.com: You stopped calling itself a search engine, because unfortunately, search is not very "novel" anymore. #OSSYM24

Melanie Platz discusses how to teach children information literacy, search literacy and search engine literacy. #OSSYM24

https://de.wikiversity.org/wiki/OpenSource4School/Lernumgebungen_zur_Informatischen_Bildung_im_Mathematikunterricht_der_Primarstufe

Michael Hamann presents #WAISE: the Wiki AI Search Engine. #OSSYM24

https://design.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/Proposal/X-AI/WAISE/

Renaud @renchap Chaput from Mastodon is (online) in the house! Renaud discusses the #Fediscovery project: opt-in by server admins, opt-in by users, only indexing public data, does not receive personal data. #OSSYM24

https://www.fediscovery.org/