@i_ngli@zemki@sociology@sts@unibremen You mean OpenQDA? @zemki is a central research unit of U of Bremen. So we can continue the development and are planning to do so. Besides that we hope to built a community around OpenQDA, not only of users but also developers. To support this we are using the plug-in architecture (a first plug-in not developed by us will come soon). Being cooperative in this way also supports sustainability.
@Andreas_Hepp@sociology@sts@unibremen thanks, I am thinking of something like a statement by @zemki that pledges to support, the development for x years? N the economy of labour investing time in a new project is risky. I, others, might be more inclined to invest attention if we know zemki will not simply change its aganda on #openqda in 5-10 years...
Hi Ingmar – Karsten from the OpenQDA team at ZeMKI here – you are totally right! We don't want to experience an OpenAI moment for OpenQDA in the future! We will do a more official mission statement and share the source with a meaning FOSS license such as AGPL-V3.0 – still discussing the exact license.
While 10 years are 70 years on the Internet and in todays late capitalism stage probably 140 years, we are now testing the waters and collect feedbacks to set this up sustainable - especially with a way to enable people of all technical levels to contribute and share! More on this in May! Self-hosting will always be free and we will provide free hosted services for text based analysis. Moving to support for multimodal analysis…
… (think images and especially videos) we probably need to thing about sharing hosting costs. Also if people start to do automated content analysis of large social text dataset with millions of messages or using locally hosted AI models there will be a need to share processing costs. But self-hosting is always a way and maybe someone will do a local-install option for single-user-scenarios. Thanks for sharing your thoughts!