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OAPEN blog: Two Years On: A Conversation with DFG on Supporting #OpenAccess #Books
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Two Years On: A Conversation with DFG on Supporting Open Access Books
It has been two years since OAPEN launched a dedicated collection of DFG-funded open access books. Part of this collection is supported by the DFG Open Access Publication Funding programme. To mark this occasion, OAPEN’s Funder Relations Manager, Laura Bandura-Morgan, interviewed Michael Geuenich, Programme Officer, Scientific Library Services and Information Systems, and Dr. Angela Holzer, … Continue reading "Two Years On: A Conversation with DFG on Supporting Open Access Books"

I went to check out leaflet.js after seeing it mentioned as one of the options for interactive map features. And after opening the homepage, I now must use it and support it: https://leafletjs.com/
I love the last paragraph in the pop up:
"If you support the actions of the Russian government…

Leaflet — an open-source JavaScript library for interactive maps
Leaflet is a modern, lightweight open-source JavaScript library for mobile-friendly interactive maps.

Met @… at @… event. #CoSocialCa members in the wild.

Rant about PHP
You know a technology is declining when the most basic questions about its most bizarre quirks are left completely unanswered for years.
#PHP is like that. Every day I have many of these questions. I look for them. No one asked them before, no one wrote about them before.
I'm baffled by the lack of curiosity and proactivity of its community.
I know it sounds like me piling up on people I don't know anything about, but I used to invest a lot of time programming in PHP. I went to conferences, I made some open source libraries for it, like a PHP kernel for Jupyter Notebooks, I even made a library to work with dataframes, tensors and matrices in PHP (although I lost this one because my laptop was stolen before I released... and I didn't had it in me to rewrite it again).
Then, the ones who I admired the most in that space, like Nikita Popov, started leaving it to work in more intellectually vibrant communities... and it shows.
I'm sure Nikita Popov would be much more gracious than me when talking about it. I can only speculate about his motivations, but at least I can tell you about mine: It was precisely about that same lack of curiosity and creativity that I mentioned before, it felt unbearably grey and sad.

f4ncgb: High Performance Gr\"obner Basis Computations in Free Algebras
Maximilian Heisinger, Clemens Hofstadler
https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.19304 https…

f4ncgb: High Performance Gröbner Basis Computations in Free Algebras
We present f4ncgb, a new open-source C++ library for Gröbner basis computations in free algebras, which transfers recent advancements in commutative Gröbner basis software to the noncommutative setting. As our experiments show, f4ncgb establishes a new state-of-the-art for noncommutative Gröbner basis computations. We also discuss implementation details and design choices.

I wrote a little blogpost about #AI #bots that are like a plague of locusts on the #OAPEN #Library

Funnelling locusts – further reflections on the OAPEN Library and DOAB’s response time 
In my previous post on our less than optimal performance of the OAPEN Library and DOAB, I wrote about the effect of AI bots on our systems, and that it has become a common problem for many sites providing open access (OA) or open source software content. All of them – including the OAPEN Library … Continue reading "Funnelling locusts – further reflections on the OAPEN Library and DOAB’s response time "