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FFmpeg to Google Fund Us or Stop Sending Bugs: https://thenewstack.io/ffmpeg-to-google-fund-us-or-stop-sending-bugs/ by @sjvn

The clash between small volunteer-driven, open-source projects, such as FFmpeg & the billion-dollar companies built on their work, which demand rapid security patches, is heating up.

The New Stack

FFmpeg to Google: Fund Us or Stop Sending Bugs

A lively discussion about open source, security, and who pays the bills has erupted on Twitter.

Kevin Karhan :verified:

@kkarhan@infosec.space replied · 14 hours ago

@sjvn this is actually very simple to solve:

Make #Support paid-only and reject submission from non - subscribers.

This something an increasing number of #FLOSS projects do: Rejecting submissions of non-allowlisted users without a valid #SupportSubscription at time of submission!

So if #Google is literally demanding an #SLA they should OFC pay for that.

Anything else is just being a rich asshole corporation leeching!

Elen Le Foll 🇫🇷 🇬🇧 🇩🇪

@ElenLeFoll@fediscience.org · 4 months ago

The first research talk #VAR4LCR is presented by Valentin Werner and Lisa-Christine Altendorf on "Register and task variation in young German learner English: A (quasi-)longitudinal look at complexity". Find out more about the project here: https://www.iaak.uni-bonn.de/bael/en/research/young-german-learner-english @corpuslinguistics#EFL #SLA

Photo of conference slide:
PROJECT CONTEXT
Young German Learner English: Complexity, Accuracy, Fluency
Project funded by the German Research Foundation (2023-2026; Grant DFG 515774206)
Universities of Bamberg (Valentin Werner), Freiburg (Anna Rosen) & Bonn (Robert Fuchs)
Compiling and analyzing a corpus of L2 English interlanguage from learners in the German school system:
• Grades 5, 7, 9, 11 (ages 10-18)
• Aim: 700+ students
• Spoken data & written data

Register and task variation in Young German Learner English - Altendorf et al. - VARALCR
06.07.2025 — Photo of conference slide: PROJECT CONTEXT Young German Learner English: Complexity, Accuracy, Fluency Project funded by the German Research Foundation (2023-2026; Grant DFG 515774206) Universities of Bamberg (Valentin Werner), Freiburg (Anna Rosen) & Bonn (Robert Fuchs) Compiling and analyzing a corpus of L2 English interlanguage from learners in the German school system: • Grades 5, 7, 9, 11 (ages 10-18) • Aim: 700+ students • Spoken data & written data Register and task variation in Young German Learner English - Altendorf et al. - VARALCR 06.07.2025

Elen Le Foll 🇫🇷 🇬🇧 🇩🇪

@ElenLeFoll@fediscience.org replied · 4 months ago

Next up #VAR4LCR María Belén Díez-Bedmar is speaking on "Exploring task type effects on L2 accuracy profiles: Narrative vs. email writing by B1 Spanish EFL learners". This study is based on the FineDesc Learner Corpus, which is a manually error-tagged controlled corpus of 200 texts written by 100 Spanish EFL learners that allows for many interesting comparisons: https://web.ujaen.es/investiga/finedesc/index.php.

@corpuslinguistics#CorpusLinguistics #SLA #EFL

- FineDesc
Learner corpus
> Collaboration of 7 University Language Centres (accredited by CertAcles)
• L1 Spanish, but considering co-official languages
> Status of English (EFL1, EFL2, ESL, etc.)
> Attendance (or not) to a preparation course
• Register, text type, main illocutionary force, topic — - FineDesc Learner corpus > Collaboration of 7 University Language Centres (accredited by CertAcles) • L1 Spanish, but considering co-official languages > Status of English (EFL1, EFL2, ESL, etc.) > Attendance (or not) to a preparation course • Register, text type, main illocutionary force, topic

L2 accuracy criterial features: narrative writing vs email writing at B1 level
Fine Desc
Large effect size
Narrative writing
Email writing
• Indefinite pronouns
• Adverb position
• Incorrect marking of number in
• Unclear passages
adjectives
Medium to large effect size
• Subject-verb agreement
• Verb morphology
Tense and aspect
• Word class selection
Dependent prepositions on verbs
• Verb voice errors
• Indefinite determiners
• Possessive determiners

Small to medium effect size
• Spelling
• Adjective selection
• Verb selection
• Use of incorrect punctuation — L2 accuracy criterial features: narrative writing vs email writing at B1 level Fine Desc Large effect size Narrative writing Email writing • Indefinite pronouns • Adverb position • Incorrect marking of number in • Unclear passages adjectives Medium to large effect size • Subject-verb agreement • Verb morphology Tense and aspect • Word class selection Dependent prepositions on verbs • Verb voice errors • Indefinite determiners • Possessive determiners Small to medium effect size • Spelling • Adjective selection • Verb selection • Use of incorrect punctuation

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@ElenLeFoll@fediscience.org · 4 months ago

The opening keynote at #VAR4LCR is by none other than the master of register variation, Doug Biber, on "Grammatical complexity in L2 writing development: Contrasting oral versus literate complexity across registers and
developmental levels", himself introduced by the doyenne of learner corpus research, Sylviane Granger. Doug showed us lots of heat maps illustrating bottom-up patterns of co-occurrences of complexity features in English L2 writing based on recent work by himself, Tove Larsson and Greg Hancock, e.g., https://doi.org/10.1515/cllt-2025-0017.

@corpuslinguistics

Doug explaining a slide with a series of heatmaps showing the correlation of key feature values for complexity features in L2-English writing across levels and disciplines.

Elen Le Foll 🇫🇷 🇬🇧 🇩🇪

@ElenLeFoll@fediscience.org replied · 4 months ago

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