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🇨🇦 Open source isn't built by code alone.
Testing. Documentation. Translation. Bug reports. Tutorials. Community events. Helping someone solve a problem.
They all matter.
If you've shared open-source knowledge with someone this week, you've contributed — even if you never wrote a line of code.
Canada's open-source community grows when knowledge is shared.
Have a great weekend. 🍁
@linuxassociation what if I use AI slop to promote my social media posts. To what have I contributed then?
@sturmsucht AI can help us communicate, just as spellcheck, translation tools or graphic software can. But it doesn’t decide what we stand for or what we do. Our contribution is the actual work: building resources, supporting communities, promoting open source and creating opportunities for collaboration. If AI helps us explain that work more effectively, we’re comfortable using it — transparently and responsibly.
@linuxassociation using AI images reflects none of the values you quoted. There is no opportunity for collaboration with an FOSS artist and no support for the creative community. Worst of all: this AI image is meaningless, adds nothing to your post and could have been easily replaced with any real photo.
It doesn't help explaining your work at all. It only shows: you don't care about artists - or the planet. Where is the responsible use here? And the transparency? I see no AI mark anywhere.
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