Almost every week, I have been updating how it is going with the goals continuously on GitHub. This review is meant to give more room for reflections on the themes I chose for 2025. For ease of reference, I have added this quarter’s goal for each theme.

Sustainability

Wikimedians for Sustainable Development 🟡

• Goal: Create a great yearly report. Draft decision-making process.

The yearly report came together quite nicely, the format from previous years was still helpful, even though that the submission process now already asked questions based on the Affiliate Health Criteria. While that was a bit of a surprise when starting the submission process, thanks to those criteria being in our goals for 2025, we already had a decent baseline to use for the new report style.

When it comes to drafting a new decision-making process, I didn’t get as far as I hoped. I did a review of what other affiliates are using, and found a few models that I think could be useful for our group, but lacking feedback from other members, I didn’t make a proper draft, but I do have good hopes for the next quarter goals still.

Office of Carbon Omission 🟢

• Goal: Generalize the landing page and move the form to a “library” of actions.

Early, I started to list a few ideas of a library for more ideas. But then I got stuck on figuring out the overall design. I realized, already with the tiny prototype, that adding content would increase the cost of maintaining this site that didn’t use any tooling to build it. After some research, I decided to try out 11ty to be able to generate the site at least partly automated when adding new content. I did a quick sketch in Excalidraw to help me visualize what parts needed to be reused.

Visualizing it like this helped me a lot to get things organized. While there are more to polish on, and a lot more content to add, I feel that I succeeded in my goal to create the framework to build upon at the updated site.

Openness advocacy

Open By Default 🔴

• Goal: Set up a VPS for using open source tools.

I did some research and found a few providers that could give me a server with Cloudron which in turn enables many open source tools. But Cloudron itself is not open source so I would prefer something similar to Yunohost. Unfortunately, I haven’t found a provider that seems to come with that in an easy ready-to-run package. I’ll do some more research, but if I don’t find a good alternative soon, I will go with Cloudron.

While not part of the goal, I did give a presentation at FOSS Backstage, Using the Commons without causing a tragedy, which I think is worth mentioning here as it was both on the theme and gave some visibility for me and the company.

Govdirectory 🟡

• Goal: Publish previously submitted fund applications and add a way to ask for funding for them.

The previous fund applications have been published as sub-pages on Wikidata, so they are fairly easy to reuse now. One plan was to adapt them for the floss.fund but the format it had was not well suited as there we have no formal organization and the community is so open and inclusive. So we still haven’t figured out a really explicit nor easy way to ask for funding.

Wikipediapodden 🟢

• Goal: 12 episodes published.

This ticked on like a clock in terms of episode production and exactly 12 episodes were published.

Last year I found a platform for streaming to Fediverse, but unfortunately over the holidays, that instance went offline. Recently I found another suitable instance, and we have streamed one episode over there.

I also started on next quarter’s goal, trying out an automated editing tool (Descript), but so far nothing worth continuing with as it couldn’t handle our Swedish at all.

Book project 🟡

• Goal: Research.

This was too vague of a goal. Still, while the research has been successful in the sense that I have located and acquired a lot of material to read, the sheer amount left me unfinished. But at least of what I did read, I feel I am on the right track.

Learning

German 🔴

• Goal: Find a good app alternative to Duolingo.

Unfortunately, I am still stuck in Duolingo. I tried another app, DW Learn German, but it was a bit buggy so I got frustrated with it. If you have any tips, I am all ears.

Climate change 🟢

• Goal: Pass the course Climate Leadership in the Private Sector.

I passed the course! And inspired by the Open Science course last year, I published my assignment on Zenodo.

Artificial intelligence 🟢

• Goal: –

No goals for the quarter, and of top of that I feel like I have stayed reasonably up-to-date with news. I did apply to an introductory course for the summer at Linköping University and one for the fall at Halmstad University, focused on ethics.

Health

Running and hiking 🟢

• Goal: 225 km (averaging 5 km/day)

Here I am crushing it (January: 129 km, February: 100 km, March: 106 km). I have got myself a good habit of running almost every day. In January, I had a small pain in my calf, similar to my injury last year, so I did make the distances a little bit shorter each day, but the consistency still makes the average be higher than the target.

Eating 🟢

• Goal: Average 19 in the Daily Dozen app

At home, checking the boxes is easy and have become a habit (January: 20.55, February: 20.64, March: 20.74). On my trip to FOSDEM in Brussels, I managed to plan meals pretty well to not loose out too much, but the FOSS Backstage in Berlin was harder. Even though the food was of unusually high quality, it was not checking the nutritional boxes to a desired extent.

With some irregularities, I have had some New Year’s resolutions. Since 2021, these have been inspired by Daniel Mietchen, not only publishing them publicly, but also doing continuous follow-up. This year, I had the basics done on the Eve, but at the last minute, decided to go into more details, with quarterly goals, and that took some more time. But now I am done, and have even done my weekly documentation twice. Perhaps it is not really resolutions in the traditional sense, but more of themes and projects fitting in them.

My themes for the year will be Sustainability, Openness Advocacy, Learning and Health. Each of them has several and more specific sub-themes, and each of those are broken down with quarterly goals. Find the full breakdown and dashboard on GitHub.

The documentation will be different from last year. Instead of monthly updates here, I will try to update the dashboard weekly (and as much as I can, with details in the code commits) and for each quarter write one summary blog post here with reflections and possibly even course corrections.