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Volunteer photographers are fixing Wikipedia's terrible celebrity headshots

Engadget

Enter WikiPortraits , a team of amateur snappers who have been hitting up festivals, award ceremonies and other events to take Creative Commons-licensed shots of high-profile attendees. The Wikimedia Foundation and donations are funding WikiPortraits' efforts, which you can read more about at 404 Media. Youd be doing me a service.'"

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A new Foundation in my career

Judi Sohn

Two weeks ago, I joined the Salesforce Foundation in a new role as Open Source Manager. This is an amazing time of change and growth for the Foundation and I’m excited to be a part of it. Joining the Foundation means saying goodbye to Salesforce MVP. Tagged: Salesforce , Salesforce Foundation. Completely free.

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Music licensing marketplace Songtradr raises $50M

TechCrunch

Music licensing marketplace Songtradr this morning announced a $50 million Series D. The platform licenses music to high-profile names for advertising, films, TV, gaming and the like, including Disney, Netflix, Apple, Coca-Cola, Amazon and Google. Wiltshire adds that the company saw a 100% y-o-y revenue growth for 2020.

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Enabling a Participatory Culture using Creative Commons Licenses

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Subsequently, I invited Gautam John who works with Pratham Books to write a guest post about their social publishing strategy where he briefly touched upon their use of Creative Commons licenses. Enabling a Participatory Culture using Creative Commons Licenses by Gautam John. We now use Creative Commons licenses everywhere!

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Want to stay healthier and fulfilled later in life? Try volunteering

Fast Company Tech

Reach out to your favorite nonprofit, visit Volunteer.gov or VolunteerMatch.org , or connect with a nonprofit resource center, a regional United Way or a community foundation to find volunteer opportunities near you. This article is republished from The Conversation under a Creative Commons license. Read the original article.

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Foundation models for reasoning on charts

Google Research AI blog

MatCha, which stands for math and charts, is a pixels-to-text foundation model (a pre-trained model with built-in inductive biases that can be fine-tuned for multiple applications) trained on two complementary tasks: (a) chart de-rendering and (b) math reasoning. A figure and the code block right before it are saved as a [chart, code] pair.

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The Davos Blur

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

James Moody of Australia’s national research organization was talking about an idea of a humanitarian license for patents that has been floated by the YGL community. Since I’ve been working on IP policy and licensing on Bookshare, I was quite interested and had ideas of how to work with companies to apply their IP to social needs.