Convening public benefit and charitable foundations working in open domains (OSI blog)
The need to create such a program is more urgent today due to the rise of new regulations in the software industry and adjacent open domains around the world. Cyber security, the societal impact of AI, data and privacy are important issues for legislators globally. At the same time, the COVID-19 pandemic drove collaborative development to unprecedented levels and took Open Source software, open research, open content and data from mainstream to main stage. Moving forward, developing these important public policies whilst not harming the ecosystem requires an understanding of how the Open Source ecosystem works. Ensuring stakeholders without historic benefit of representation are included in those discussions becomes paramount to that end.The OPA will focus on educating public policy makers on Open Source to inform their development and deliberation of new policy concepts. There are unintended consequences that come from a lack of understanding of how open collaboration works in practice. The OPA will address this as well as the historic absence of contribution from underrepresented groups. The interest areas of the OPA community will complement those of Digitable Public Goods Alliance, a UNICEF multi-stakeholder initiative with a mission to accelerate the attainment of sustainable development goals in low- and middle-income countries that OSI joined earlier this year.
Posted Jul 13, 2023 7:51 UTC (Thu)
by taladar (subscriber, #68407)
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Posted Jul 13, 2023 9:08 UTC (Thu)
by Wol (subscriber, #4433)
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Cheers,
Posted Jul 13, 2023 14:37 UTC (Thu)
by saladin (subscriber, #161355)
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And as we know, anecdotal evidence is the best form of evidence on the internet.
Posted Jul 14, 2023 11:31 UTC (Fri)
by Wol (subscriber, #4433)
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What you have said is a FACT. What I have said is a FACT. Because we've experienced it. People who DON'T WANT this stuff to be true will damn it as "anecdote" so they can ignore FACT.
Yep, a lot of what's on the internet is garbage. A lot of what's on the internet is hearsay. But (to use an appropriate argument for me seeing as I'm in my caravan) the towing plugs are designed to only go in one way. A lot of people believe it's impossible to miswire your trailer as a result. But I've done it. My father in law has done it. I've been behind other vehicles that have done it.
Are you going to believe "the accepted truth"? Or are you going to believe someone who says "the accepted truth is wrong because *I* have done the "impossible" "?
That's what's behind the real meaning of "the exception proves the rule". If my experience contradicts the rule, then it's data. End of. If I've seen loads of people saying their experience contradicts the rule, that's hearsay. If somebody says "the internet disagrees with you", that's rumour :-)
You have to weigh what is presented to you, and decide whether it's evidence (the person presented it to you experienced it), hearsay (they are repeating what other people presented to them as evidence), or rumour (they don't know where it came from). Too many people, when presented with evidence that contradicts their belief, are too ready to dismiss it as rumour and ignore it.
Of course, my experience may not be real. My understanding of the situation may be wrong. There's a whole bunch of ways my experience can APPEAR to contradict the rule without actually doing so. But to dismiss my experience without trying to understand it is very dangerous ... there's a good chance it's YOUR experience is wrong, not mine (which led to a major CoVid disaster, as one example)
Cheers,
Posted Jul 16, 2023 11:28 UTC (Sun)
by pabs (subscriber, #43278)
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Posted Jul 16, 2023 17:28 UTC (Sun)
by ballombe (subscriber, #9523)
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Consider that both Free Software and Open Source software have powerful enemies whose coalesced goal is to replace them with something more palatable to their interest and that control the majority of jobs in the industry (including probably the majority of LWN readers) and when your income depends on believing that FLOSS is dead, it will be difficult to convince you otherwise. Their (coalesced) goal is for Free Software to disappear and Open source to mean "some source are available sometime somewhere".
Posted Jul 13, 2023 15:58 UTC (Thu)
by ndesaulniers (subscriber, #110768)
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Posted Jul 13, 2023 19:27 UTC (Thu)
by NightMonkey (subscriber, #23051)
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Convening public benefit and charitable foundations working in open domains (OSI blog)
Convening public benefit and charitable foundations working in open domains (OSI blog)
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Convening public benefit and charitable foundations working in open domains (OSI blog)
Convening public benefit and charitable foundations working in open domains (OSI blog)
Wol
Convening public benefit and charitable foundations working in open domains (OSI blog)
Convening public benefit and charitable foundations working in open domains (OSI blog)
Convening public benefit and charitable foundations working in open domains (OSI blog)
Convening public benefit and charitable foundations working in open domains (OSI blog)