To me one of the clear things that GitHub gave us was a structure around a person rather than a project. To me it felt liberating to quickly create a repository attached to my name than it was to go through the (what felt to me) very serious process of coming up with a project name and reserving it on sourceforge just to get a cvs or svn repository (along with website, mailing lists, issue tracking(?), etc, etc...). It felt like the mental load of "oh this is just a quick thing" was a lot easier with github.

> It gave projects issue trackers, pull requests, release pages, wikis, organization pages, API access, webhooks, and later CI.

Although it didn't give us this all at once. I still remember when we created a new user account in order to simulate an organisation, before they existed. I distinctly recall discussing with friends if we wanted to set up a bug tracker software for our project with the assumption that "GitHub will probably release one in a few months anyway". In the end we just kept a text file committed in the repository. Issues were announced a few months later.

> Se accede al interior por unas escaleras de caracol. Para evitar el mareo, los 4 primeros tramos se hacen en el sentido de las agujas del reloj y los dos últimos tramos en sentido contrario.

[1] https://rutasparatodaslasedades.blogspot.com/2019/07/el-cast...

Follow the troi-bot user with a ListenBrainz account, and we'll generate you a daily playlist: https://listenbrainz.org/user/troi-bot

This is still very much work-in-progress, but we're doing as much as possible out in the open to solicit feedback from people.

A reminder, we also have acoustic similarity using signal processing analysis and nearest neighbour lookup for all sounds[2]

Could you update the sound displays to include a link to the sound page on Freesound, for citation purposes? You can use https://freesound.org/s/[soundid] or use our embedded player. See the "Embed" option in the share box on the right -hand-side toolbar of any sound page.

Are you interested in integrating this into FS? Talk to us![3]

[1] https://www.upf.edu/web/mtg/

[2] https://freesound.org/people/lebaston100/sounds/243627/simil...

[3] https://github.com/mtg/freesound

This meant that my android phone was a bit confused at times. When on mobile data the weather widget would default to showing me weather for random Czech cities, and search results would be Czech-localised. When on wifi connections, results were in English and Canada-localised, unless I bounced through a VPN exit node at home.

After 3-4 days, ads on Youtube started becoming Canada or Czechia-localised depending on if I was watching it via wifi or mobile data. It seems that google eventually decided that I was in Canada, continuing to play me Canadian ads even when I got home to Spain, on both wifi and mobile data. What was even stranger is that my partner started getting Canadian ads on youtube on her ipad too, which doesn't have any details about my google account (other than us living on the same internet connection). It took about 2 weeks for google to start playing us Spanish ads again.

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We also maintain Freesound labs, which lists a lot of projects and research made using content from freesound: https://labs.freesound.org/

FSD50k is our hand-curated dataset of sounds designed for research in sound and event recognition tasks https://zenodo.org/record/4060432#.X3xrgi8RqL4, http://dcase.community/challenge2019/task-audio-tagging

In some of my projects, when a new contributor submits a first patch, I've started to do something similar to what people did for me in the past. I will work with them to make major improvements if needed, but if there are a few small things (fix some styling, improve a test, etc), I will just make those changes myself in order to get the PR merged. I understand that this isn't always possible on all projects, and depending on people's spare time, but I think that it's a nice way of showing people that their contributions are welcome without getting bogged down in rules about whitespace or naming.

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