- support enlightened self-interest (aligned with the goals the project wins)
- goals should be fungible
- change agency is risky
- tactical humility is your friend
and lots of stories about mozilla, mysql, gnome, android
Also #InnerSource is the way to learn about #OpenSource before jumping out. The goal is the sharing
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Last talk of #NationalOpenSourceInnovationSummit by Danese Cooper on top tips for publishing successful #OpenSource projects.
I think she referred to @rms when saying that you should be able to put walnuts in the cookies
successful project tips:
- keep an eye on your goals
- take care of the community involved
- very easy to screw up
- only opening isn't enough!!
- have mentors to help new contributors
- plan for newbies
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#DARE #AI (Vincent Sha from @carnegiemellon) tool is a wrapper around #LLMs mostly for #HigherEducation. One of the exercises in their courses is how you ask the model
OpenAI will shield you in lower legal circuits 🙄
Youngers don't consider it as tools, but as friends or collaborators.
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commercial #OpenSource… a misnomer? By Malcolm Bain
Open source is not a licensing or commercial model. It's a collaborative software devel model, that needs a #community & governance, community balance & all independent of the license type.
How to make it sustainabkebthrough community and governance?
current commercial models:
- dual licensing
- open core
- SaaS / MSP
- services
- Hardware +OSS
- security layers, hardening
- marketplaces
- infrastructures
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Capabilities for Open Source Innovation: Background | Allison Randal

Over the past decade, I’ve been researching open source and technology innovation, partly through employment at multiple different companies who engage in open source, and partly through academic work towards completing a Master’s degree and soon starting a PhD. The heart of this research is looking into what makes companies successful at open source and also at technology innovation. It turns out there are actually many things in common between the two.

How #OpenSource helps us to Build to Share? Tony Shannon (office of goverment Ireland)
They're building #DigitalPublicInfrastructure with #GovStack
Build to Share approach. From birth to death. Working with companies that are hapoy with open source.
The website, their forms, their paying system, their messaging managment, the case management all are building blocks that are Open Source, and alligned to the #digitalWallet (also open) using #openshift as infr.
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Now I'm learning about #dinum (France) by @bzg the #GLOSS (joke) licence, and much more about #OpenSource in the public sector in #France
France started in 1999 proposing a law for #FOSS in the public sector. In 2023 launched @lasuite
Where catalogues software and companies for public servants.
There are different types of collaborations from informal to formal.
@Framasoft has only 10 people, so they created @ChatonsOrg to scale.
#sovereignty is #freedom
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Destructive actions on the repository history makes you directly as untrastable.
#closedSoftware will get a sha and a contract and that's it. It will get a number in the trustable continuum. It won't be perfect.
@codethink doesn't use #AI. There are things that need exploration, but by now the risk is too much to make it trustable
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Objectives of the framework @EclipseFdn
https://pages.eclipse.dev/eclipse/tsf/tsf/
- lightweight (all yaml)
- objectives rather than process (trustable release, first three tenants are #CRA obligations)
- workflow methodology
Insurance Innovation that helps to understand the procurement chain.
Remember: Software without evidence is just belief. And tests are not evidence.
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Overview - Trustable Software Framework

Why do you trust software?? John Ellis (@codethink)
Why do we have to trust John first? He's a good lad who worked in Cork, so we are grand!!
Can we use #OpenSource in safety critical context?
what's the essence of trust software? 6 claims
- provenance
- construction
- changes
- expectations
- results
- confidence
and then show the evidence for each.
https://www.trustablesoftware.com/
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Trustable Software | Towards Trustable Software

Trustable Software describes a new systematic approach to establishing trust in software

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