opps, sloppy fingers. here you go: https://www.dendron.so/notes/678c77d9-ef2c-4537-97b5-64556d6337f1.html

I found this read very interesting https://www.boringcactus.com/2020/08/13/post-open-source.html and this one here https://faircode.io/

thanks for sharing. two thoughts: 1) foss is dead. that rings true and I generally agree with the points in the artile 2) oss is... complicated. more on the latter point oss clearly won in terms of adoption - basically all software uses or is built off oss software. in terms of business mode, hn is littered with cynicism and failed oss startups. that being said, there are probably more oss startups today than ever before (yours truly being one of them) the article makes a point of corporations taking over oss projects, aws being a prime example, but all oss projects that aws is offering (eg. elasticsearch, mongodb, redis, etc) are doing incredibly well and have only increased their revenue post-aws announcement. i don't think corporations kill oss - i just think that building a business off a oss requires, well, a business plan and sound incentives for people to contribute. there are not many that can pull off wikipedia's fundraising-as-a-business model - for everyone else (including mozilla), it means actually creating business value that users would pay for. this is also why dendron has a whole sustainability section to figure out how to do this long term: https://dendron.so/notes/d892da5f-3667-4bfe-a8ba-e5ea3da4eb72.html tldr; building a sustainable business off oss is hard and requires finding product market fit and providing value on top of oss that users would pay for

ps. when i saw foss is dead, this is the first thing i thought of -> https://www.zdnet.com/article/microsoft-celebrates-windows-phone-7-with-mock-iphone-funeral/

@kevins8 have you seen this ? https://a9.io/glue-comic/

I cannot stop thinking about Dendron metaphors when he is talking about "leaf" and "tree" conversations!!

this is awesome and completely in line (structure) with Dendron how did you stumble on to this?

I honestly am not sure where I came across it! it might have been posted on the Obsidian or the Productivists Discord or it might have come through Google scholar because it's in line with my academic stuff too 😆

@User I may have to transpose that ~~essay ~~ comic into a dendron site

Happy holidays. (half way through xmas where I am 🙂 )

good timing, you beat me to it 😅

I'm in the future 😄 pretty good advantage

i'll be sure to message you before my next stock purchase 😛

my stock portfolio is at -30% so I don't recommend doing that lol

looks like I have absolutely nothing planned for today. time to finally sit down and really set up for dev

lemme know if there's a specific issue your working on or if you run into anything

Will do

@kevins8, got math published! https://www.texdeck.net/notes/b4d3ce67-cb23-41e9-af11-5e751a13321c.html Thank you so much!

woot! looks awesome 🙂

Nice!

Guess #717965437182410786 is where this would go - Just noticed how my most recent 'digital garden' experiment TiddlyWiki structure looks a lot like the default Dendron setup...

well, hopefully that will make the transition smoother 🙂

@User Looks great! Studying Physics? I looked through thinking I remember all these topics 😁

Thanks! and yup! Just wrapped my B.S. 🥳 The open course web is part of trying to pivot into developer work while keeping my fundamentals sharp. It might be nice to have a somewhat controlled setting for review of topics and characterization of the effectiveness of independent learning of this form. I think that a big step would be aggregation of a creative-commons test bank with topic distribution similar to the Physics GRE so that people can take mini quizzes and track their performance over time. 🤔 ... I'm open to any thoughts on this stuff 😄 What's your relationship with physics by the way?

Wow that's impressive! Imagine anyone can go to a site with question banks and they can self learn phyiscs... Wonderful

Congrats! I finished my physics BS 2 years ago now so QM still haunts me 😁 . I really like the idea and still have decks of anki cards somewhere for all my key equations, so would be happy to help out if you wanted? 🙂

Thanks @User ! Since I've never developed curriculum I'm trying to better understand the problem space. My sense is that the student-teacher dichotomy arises from a skill chasms. I don't know about other departments, but for all my courses other than the capstone labs, almost every problem was submitted with handwritten solutions. So mainly professors worked with LaTeX environments. Another skill chasm is experience with formal reference management. If a student doesn't need to develop a high quality and efficient system for typesetting or reference management, they generally don't. I've had this gnawing sense that at least these two areas are fertile for major improvement. Tools for video conferencing offering instructional environments with handwriting have certainly helped students to network and narrowed the skills chasms over the 2010s. In the 2020s I think that a mode of instruction involving Dendron vault repositories could eclipse OCW, Kahn Academy, and Youtube in usefulness for learning... at least for students who acclimate to the basics of a code editor (maybe middle school or high school?). There's no replacement for video instruction, but videos are not suitable for active learning like a classroom or LMS. I wonder... what if learning management systems involved much less effort and training to implement as an educator. What if the workspace for both teachers and students was as powerful and mutable as an IDE? Unlike stack-exchange where for each question there is an answer-zoo, what if we had something more like an open-access question-zoo? Proprietary and siloed question banks will always have a place, but we may see a cambrian explosion of quiz diversity thanks to the mutability and portability of markdown. I'm just curious about what that might look like. And @User I would love to check out your Anki cache!

fyi, this was on hacker news recently. might also be a good person to reach out to about doing online math notes 🙂 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25055267

Starred and noted! Only recently has my typing improved to a point where notetaking in LaTeX is remotely viable. I'm in awe of people who do this. I also wonder why they shy away from including the raw TeX too though. Maybe I'm just wet behind the ears.

Anyone using Zettelkasten method in Dendron? Do you use a seperate schema or scratch notes?