Our University of Groningen Press colleagues were also at the #DigitalAutonomy Fair today.

At UGP, we work with Open Journal Systems by @PublicKnowledgeProject. We help academic staff take back control of the #academic #publishing infrastructure, for example by supporting them in setting up their own journal.
#OpenScience #OpenAccess

We are ready to roll! Today, we're at the very first #DigitalAutonomy Fair at the @universityofgroningen!

Come by our booth, learn all about #PeerTube, #Mastodon, and about the @SURF instance https://social.edu.nl.
Create an account, get a sticker and please form a queue to cuddle our #plushtodon.

Decentralization shifts risk rather than removing it. Running your own services reduces dependency on platforms, but increases dependency on your own operational discipline. Backups, updates, monitoring, and recovery are no longer abstracted away.

What used to be handled by a provider becomes a set of explicit responsibilities. When something breaks, the cause is usually mundane. A missed update, an expired certificate, or a backup that was never tested. The tradeoff is autonomy for responsibility, and it is only obvious once you are operating the system yourself.

#SelfHosting #Decentralization #Systems #DigitalAutonomy #TechCulture

Decentralization shifts risk rather than removing it. Running your own services reduces dependency on platforms, but increases dependency on your own operational discipline. Backups, updates, monitoring, and recovery are no longer abstracted away.

What used to be handled by a provider becomes a set of explicit responsibilities. When something breaks, the cause is usually mundane. A missed update, an expired certificate, or a backup that was never tested. The tradeoff is autonomy for responsibility, and it is only obvious once you are operating the system yourself.

#SelfHosting #Decentralization #Systems #DigitalAutonomy #TechCulture

A Fair to remember ! Today was the New year, new digital you?Join the UG Digital Autonomy Fair! Less big tech, more academic control ! with speakers from the university of Groningen, and SURF about on Zotero, Linux workspaces, Nextcloud/UniShare, RDMS, Mastodon, &stands representing different tools used with the university including the UMCG ! Congratulations to the organizers the Alliance for Digital Autonomy (ADA). Thanks all speakers & participants ! #ADA #digitalautonomy #RUG

Come find the @ug_dcc stand at the #DigitalAutonomy fair!

What could be more digitally autonomous than writing your own FAIR and #OpenSource research software!

Also nice to to see so many collegues from @CIT_RUG!

Yes, we did it - we had our first #DigitalAutonomy Fair at the @universityofgroningen! The location was filled to the brim with 100+ people.
Lightning talks and information booths on tools that support digital autonomy for staff and students, e.g. #Nextcloud, @SURF's URL shortener & file sharing, #Linux workspaces, and #Mastodon and #PeerTube.
Thanks @wlaatje @fabricemous @oj_gstrein @sebastiaan @CIT_RUG @ug_dcc and more

https://www.rug.nl/library/calendar/260203-digitalautonomy-fair

Our University of Groningen Press colleagues were also at the #DigitalAutonomy Fair today.

At UGP, we work with Open Journal Systems by @PublicKnowledgeProject. We help academic staff take back control of the #academic #publishing infrastructure, for example by supporting them in setting up their own journal.
#OpenScience #OpenAccess

We are ready to roll! Today, we're at the very first #DigitalAutonomy Fair at the @universityofgroningen!

Come by our booth, learn all about #PeerTube, #Mastodon, and about the @SURF instance https://social.edu.nl.
Create an account, get a sticker and please form a queue to cuddle our #plushtodon.