https://pinboard.in/u:jm/public/ recent bookmarks from jm 2021-07-29T08:27:23+00:00 https://www.gimp.org/news/2021/07/27/support-gimp-developers-sustainable-development/ jmWe have seen skilled developers come and go for years, the latter becoming a growing concern. Contributing takes a crazy amount of time and people have family, work and other responsibilities to take care of. Thus when core team contributors are willing to be paid for making Free Software, we have decided that GIMP as a project should encourage such endeavours by putting more emphasis on their funding. There are currently 2 such crowdfunding projects. You can consider these crowdfundings as “official” as can be and completely endorsed by the GIMP project. ]]> oss funding via:hn gimp open-source crowdfunding gnome https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:jm/b:7afc714705a7/ 2019-08-16T13:49:32+00:00 https://climeworks.shop/ jm co2 climate carbon-sequestration ccs crowdfunding https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:jm/b:a99c3a74f467/ 2019-05-02T14:31:27+00:00 https://www.goldstandard.org/get-involved/make-an-impact jm climate-change climate offsetting donation crowdfunding offset https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:jm/b:7b2f10340cbc/ 2018-11-30T12:09:02+00:00 https://patentpandas.org/stories/crowdfunding-backer-patented-my-project jmI had thought thought all along that if we published everything openly, it wouldn’t be possible for someone else to patent stuff that’s already all over the web.  But I was wrong. Despite tons of prior art out on the web, in academic research papers and even for sale that are LED stickers, the patent examiner missed it and deemed the LED sticker patent “new” and “non-obvious.”   How could that happen?  The sad truth is that patents are approved all that time that probably shouldn’t be. [...] Can’t you invalidate the patent? Unfortunately, once a patent gets issued things get much more complicated and expensive. The cheapest option would be for us to go to the USPTO with our prior art list and invalidate the patent though a process called an inter partes review (IPR).  But such a process typically costs between $300,000 and $600,000 to file due to legal fees. In fact, it’s much more than the cost of getting the patent in the first place! So for now, we’ve decided not to go down this route. The US patent system is broken. This is appalling]]> patents led-stickers uspto prior-art invention crowdfunding https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:jm/b:1a0917d3a1cc/ 2015-03-10T16:12:31+00:00 http://www.defenseone.com/technology/2015/03/ukraine-tomorrows-drone-war-alive-today/107085/ jmThe most sophisticated UAV that has come out of the Ukrainian side since the start of the conflict is called the PD-1 from developer Igor Korolenko. It has a wingspan of nearly 10 feet, a five-hour flight time, carries electro-optical and infrared sensors as well as a video camera that broadcasts on a 128 bit encrypted channel. Its most important feature is the autopilot software that allows the drone to return home in the event that the global positioning system link is jammed or lost. Drone-based intelligence gathering is often depicted as risk-free compared to manned aircraft or human intelligence gathering, but, says Korolenko, if the drone isn’t secure or the signature is too obvious, the human coasts can be very, very high. “Russian military sometimes track locations of ground control stations,” he wrote Defense One in an email. “Therefore UAV squads have to follow certain security measures - to relocate frequently, to move out antennas and work from shelter, etc. As far as I know, two members of UAV squads were killed from mortar attacks after [their] positions were tracked by Russian electronic warfare equipment.” (via bldgblog)]]> via:bldgblog war drones uav future ukraine russia tech aircraft pd-1 crowdfunding https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:jm/b:d9e9683fa5f5/ 2013-09-18T21:31:56+00:00 https://linkedfinance.com/business-loans/finance/borrower/loan?id=860 jm trouble-brewing ireland brewing beer business investment crowdfunding microbreweries https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:jm/b:87e1e20b32b1/ 2011-11-02T22:11:39+00:00 http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/jackadam/dark-sky-hyperlocal-weather-prediction-and-visuali jm crowdfunding weather apps cool dataviz visualization https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:jm/b:11431347c460/ 2011-07-30T23:37:11+00:00 http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/technology/adrianhon/100006763/unbound-the-crowdfunding-cargo-cult/ jm via:waxy unbound kickstarter cargo-cult funding crowdfunding books uk https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:jm/b:b89984baa0d6/