Time to review my progress again, and this has been a less productive quarter than Q1 and Q2. While I have been able to update my goals continuously, it hasn’t been weekly, but on the other hand, I am very happy to have migrated them from GitHub to Codeberg! This quarter has also had some travel, and more work than anticipated which reflects in my progress. Something I should have done earlier was to create a paper version to always have just a glance away. I think I have that to thank for the progress I have been making.

The purpose of this review is 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: Make podcast about charts and SVG efforts

No podcast has been made yet. I have tried to get in contact with the developers, but no reply so far. On the other hand, my suggestion for a lightning talk about charts at WikiCon NL has been accepted.

Office of Carbon Omission 🟡

• Goal: Marketing: set up social media account(s), podcast, video introduction.

I have only started with a script for the video, but I haven’t figured out how to visualize it yet. For social media, I will setup a new Mastodon instance, but haven’t gotten around to it yet. When I wrote the goals, I had the idea of talking about this on somebody else’s podcast, but I don’t know which yet. Ideas are welcome.

Openness advocacy

Open By Default 🟢

• Goal: Add more details on offered services on the website.

I added one, but perhaps the one that seems most relevant for me: making Standard for Public Code assessments. I plan to add another one for Governance Game sessions too.

Govdirectory 🔴

• Goal: Research what framework we could use for the questions.

No deeper research has been done. The thesis is that another Wikibase would be fine, but more requirements and perhaps some tests needs to be done to see if that holds up.

Wikipediapodden 🟡

• Goal: 13 episodes published.

I must have planned some extra episodes somehow because while we did miss one regular episode, we still only got to 8. This was a mistake in my planning.

Book project 🟡

• Goal: Write one chapter.

While I have most of a chapter done, i think it is too short and need more sources, so I won’t give myself a full pass on it.

Learning

German 🔴

• Goal: Finish the grammar book.

I am far from having finished the grammar book Modern tysk grammatik. On the upside, I have found Nachrichtenleicht which is easy news in German that I am enjoying a lot. Additionally, Easy German, a Youtube channel I have sporadically enjoyed have launched a new platform where one easier can find material on right level, so I am planning a subscription there. I stopped using Duolingo completely after reaching a 1,500 day streak in August.

Climate change

• Goal: –

Artificial intelligence

• Goal: –

Health

Running and hiking 🟢

• Goal: 682.5.5 km (averaging 5 km/day)

Even though I had a cold and have been traveling some, I am way ahead. In fact, I have already reached the yearly goal, so if I manage to stay healthy, this can be a record year all-time. (Total: 953 km, (July: 118 km, August: 67 km, September: 99))

Eating 🟢

• Goal: Average 19 in the Daily Dozen app

Only in August when I was traveling most, and that is when I usually find it hardest to stay on top of what I eat, I dipped below 19, and otherwise I managed to stay well above it. (July: 21.52, August: 18.55, September: 21.5)

Like the last quarter, I have been updating how it is going with the goals continuously on GitHub. It has not been every week this quarter as the progress have been in a slower pace, but the updates have not been lagging much. Due to some travel with work, it has also been a bit unfocused, but I have made efforts to revisit my goals and keep them in mind.

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: Establish decision-making process.

Unfortunately we didn’t manage to meet that much this quarter, and it was hard to build momentum and enthusiasm.

Office of Carbon Omission 🔴

• Goal: Add more ideas to the library (at least burning, fireworks and public transport).

Even though I clarified in the categories a bit, adding marketing as a topic, I didn’t add any new ideas.

Openness advocacy

Open By Default 🟢

• Goal: Establish Fediverse presence.

Not only did I manage to do this, I did it by catching up on last quarter’s goal “Set up a VPS for using open source tools.” by getting a server with Yunohost that I installed Mastodon on. The server is on: social.openbydefau.lt.

Govdirectory 🟡

• Goal: Inventorize question types and classify them.

It’s not a great classification system yet, but I have started to gather a list of kinds of questions/contacts that someone may need guidance in.

Wikipediapodden 🟢

• Goal: 🟢 11 episodes published. 🟡 Get access to and start using an automated editing tool.

Due to some travel, we missed one regular episode but made up for it by a special episode in English and exactly 11 episodes were published.

I did try out Descript, but that was not good enough for episodes in Swedish, and even in the English episode, it didn’t help at all. The technology does not seem to be mature enough for my standards.

Book project 🟡

• Goal: Full outline and key section done.

I think I have the outline done, but not the entire key section yet.

Learning

German 🟢

• Goal: Get a good grammar book.

After a lot of looking I got myself the grammar book Modern tysk grammatik from Liber.

Climate change 🔴

• Goal: Pass the course Design of Circular AI-Based Services.

Here I failed by missing the registration date for the course and couldn’t take it.

Artificial intelligence 🟡

• Goal: 🔴 Pass the course Design of Circular AI-Based Services. 🟡 Pass the course Elements of AI.

Since I missed the registration of the first course, I signed up to another course and have started it. It continues the entire summer.

Health

Running and hiking 🟢

• Goal: 452.5 km (averaging 5 km/day)

Running is still going really well, and I haven’t been sick or had any injuries so far. (Total: 669 km, April: 109 km, May: 110 km, June: 115 km.)

Eating 🟢

• Goal: Average 19 in the Daily Dozen app

Despite some travels, I managed to keep the average high. (April: 19.93, May: 19.87, June: 21.43.)

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 Codeberg.

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.