David Ing @daviding@qoto.org

Moving from coal to green energy for Dong (nee Danish Oil and Natural Gas) started in 2008, leading to an CEO change in 2012, to a 2017 divestment of fossil-fuel bases businesses. Perseverance can pay off, but patience goes through trials.
"A tale of transformation: the Danish company that went from black to green energy" | Eric Reguly | April 16, 2019 | Corporate Knights at https://www.corporateknights.com/channels/climate-and-carbon/black-green-energy-15554049/

Public libraries can become hubs for peer-to-peer learning. In the Let's Learn Teach Online program, #TorontoLibrary has partnered with #P2PU, #CiscoNetAcad, #TorontoESS, and #GBCollege to facilitate "Linux Unhatched" and "Introduction to IoT".

Larysa Essex shared their experiences at the @gtalug meeting on April 9, 2019. https://daviding.wordpress.com/2019/04/20/2019-04-09-larysa-essex-linux-unhatched-learning-circles-at-toronto-public-library-web-video/

Afternoon break in 200-year-old mid-lake pavilion included zhong, quail eggs, kumquats, sesame peanut blocks, preserved plums. Following afternoon visiting two art museums, the snack re-energized us into discussing philosophy, following the tradition of those frequenting Chinese teahouses. (Yuyuan Tea House, Yu Garden, Shanghai, PR China) 20190331 @marcocataffo

Here in Shanghai, @marcocataffo has a Thinkpad T430 , which I've now brought up to date with Manjaro Linux (and Kubuntu LTS as a backup) alongside Windows 7. He's now 2 days jet lagged from Italy. Eventually, maybe @antlerboy will meet somewhere.

Dinner with @rms @fsf inviting the activists #CivicTechTO to gain some insight into discussions on privacy concerns #QuaysideToronto. We outlined but didn't delved into the complexity of three levels of government involved in #WaterfrontTO. (Royal Myanmar, Homer Avenue, Etobicoke, Ontario) 20190208

Each of us can find different meaning from the same words.

> The poetic prose of ancient Chinese philosopher Zhuangzi, for example, is a stunning piece of compressed thought and meaning with a deft touch of humour: ”The fish trap exists because of the fish; once you’ve gotten the fish, you can forget the trap. The rabbit snare exists because of the rabbit; once you’ve gotten the rabbit, you can forget the snare. Words exist because of meaning; once you’ve gotten the meaning, you can forget the words. Where can I find a man who has forgotten words, so I can have a word with him?”

"Well Versed" | Frank Buchar | First Person in the Globe and Mail | Jan. 24, 2019 at https://www.theglobeandmail.com/life/first-person/article-sometimes-poetry-is-the-best-therapy-i-can-find/

Research in #resilience #science: "if there were global tipping points, they will rise from the interaction of local tipping points that would amplify each other. But the question of which tipping elements can interact and how remained unanswered" writes #JuanRocha context https://twitter.com/juanrocha/status/1083196454703906818

"Cascading regime shifts within and across scales" | Dec, 2018 at https://www.juanrocha.se/publication/cascadingrs/

Appreciating one of many ongoing deliberations in Canada, on improving our society. Respectful diligence takes time, and is a better than a rush to judgement when policies impact many. A free press can report on the important, not just the urgent.

> Over the past few decades, schools across Canada have moved toward a model of inclusive education, but many are struggling to find the best ways to include children with complex needs in regular classrooms.

"Educating Grayson: Are inclusive classrooms failing students?" | Caroline Alphonso | Jan. 5, 2018 | Globe and Mail at https://www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/education/article-educating-grayson-are-inclusive-classrooms-failing-students/

#Wiki was invented by Ward Cunningham in 1995, to support the Portland Pattern Repository http://c2.com/ppr/ .

#FederatedWiki was invented by Ward in 2011, enabling parallel editing in a community. Renaming a "wiki page"​ as a "card"​ may make it more intelligible to novices (even those who don't remember #hypercard).

Restarted #federatedwiki for sharing #patternlanguage .
https://ingbrief.wordpress.com/2019/01/02/federated-wiki-for-pattern-languages/

@ntnsndr Thanks for the mayfirst.org link, I see there are U.S. and Mexican parts. The discussion on reorganizing as a coop is interesting. If such a platform was hosted in Canada, I might be interested. In 2016, I moved all of my web self-hosting to Canada, https://www.quora.com/Whats-a-good-Canadian-web-hosting-provider/ . Choosing across organizational governance and avoiding the U.S. Patriot Act on data access is a dilemma, for a Canadian. @Matt_Noyes

@dontai Mixing amateur drivers with a Formula One track in China follows their cultural style of accepting chaos in everyday life. Eventual popularization of motorsports in China would be better, if they were more stringent about training and qualifying.

@neil Over on qoto.org, the technical toot limit is over 65535 characters, but moderators have guidelines of <1000 characters because moderators on 500-character Mastodon instances have to receive them. My practice is now to use a free WordPress.com site (ingbrief.wordpress.com) with a P2 theme, for longer posts, and then to excerpt from there. https://daviding.wordpress.com/2017/06/12/20130727-beau-lebens-taking-wordpress-to-the-front-end-with-o2-web-video/

Not self-hosting all of my WordPress sites lets me observe the decisions made on a guy I managed CMS.

@Matt_Noyes The biggest challenge with self hosting communications for me, to date, isn't the email, but instead the calendaring. I had a long career with Lotus Notes calendar, and Google Calendar is still missing features but is popular and functional. I do self host IMAP email, and prefer Horde over Roundcube. Advances on calendaring seemed slow, I would like to know if they have improved.