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The use of Social Media for Communication and Knowledge Sharing in the Home-Office Work Period
Published in Johan Ninan, Social Media for Project Management, 2022
Marcirio Silveira Chaves, Giuliana Veronese, Roberto Winter
When asked about other social media tools to share knowledge, interviewees add Git, wiki, and Slack. Git is a ′software for tracking changes in any set of files, normally used for coordinating work among programmers collaboratively developing source code during software development′. The wiki should better disseminate knowledge and its evolution, change, and dynamism (I5). Slack is a collaborative tool designed for use in the workplace. It allows for direct messages between two individuals and group chats where many people can share content, comments, and reactions.
Setting up your computer
Published in Tiffany Timbers, Trevor Campbell, Melissa Lee, Data Science, 2022
Tiffany Timbers, Trevor Campbell, Melissa Lee
Windows: To install Git on Windows, go to https://git-scm.com/download/win and download the Windows version of Git. Once the download has finished, run the installer and accept the default configuration for all pages.
A terrestrial Internet from the quilombos: the transatlantic evolution of baobab from colonial to digital capitalism
Published in Tapuya: Latin American Science, Technology and Society, 2022
Shaozeng Zhang, Mariana Ribeiro Porto Araujo, Ana Carolina de Assis Nunes
Since around 2009, the quilombo digital network Baobaxia has gradually evolved into a hybrid Internet. For example, a few communities in Goiás (Rede mocambos, n.d.) built cell phone towers for Internet connection with governments’ institutional and Meta-recycling’s technological support. Even with that, the Internet connection is too limited and slow to transfer multimedia data. The connection of many quilombos with Baobaxia was built through satellite hookups and free software without going through mainstream Internet portals. Baobaxia continues serving as a distributed database, but more than simply through physical transport of digital devices. A foundational step was building the Git data repository. Git (n.d.) is a free and open-source version control system widely used for large distributed software development projects. The use of Git in Baobaxia is unique because it was designed to allow data locally uploaded to individual community stations of Baobaxia without Internet connection, and later shared with the whole network with Internet connection. This unique design (Rede mocambos, n.d.) makes Baobaxia continuously adaptive to the quilombos’ needs, with or without Internet connection, and in high or low bandwidth. While each community station is a node or local server of the network, it is more often called a Mucua (with capital M) (Figure 3). In addition to the community Mucuas, there are also mobile Mucuas, including external hard drives continuously used for data transport in mucua shells and also laptop Mucuas. As an active technology recycler proudly shared, “for example, when we walk around, my laptop is a Mucua! We place it in a plaza, people join this network, and we can make an event or something like that with people browsing on the internet.”