SOS 003: Greg Bloom Explains Open Source Initiative

Sustain Our Software

Sponsors

• Cachefly

Panel

• Pia Mancini
• Eric Berry

Joined By Special Guest: Greg Bloom Episode Summary Greg Bloom, the Chief Organizing Officer of Open Referral Initiative, a community of practice that develops data standards and open source tools that make it easier to share, find and use information about health, human, and social services.Greg talks about the evolution of Open Referral Initiative and defines what "commons" is. He mentions how some of the dilemmas developers are facing in open source software maintenance resembles some of the dilemmas dealt with in common resources management. The panel then talks about what principles or rules should be defined for using open source software resources by taking cues from the common resources management guidelines. Links:

• https://OpenReferral.org
• https://openreferral.org/our-video-open-referral-in-three-minutes/
• Greg's LinkedIn
• Greg's Twitter
• Governing the Commons by Elinor Ostrom
• Tragedy of the Commons by Garrett Hardin
• Elinor Ostrom
• https://commons.blog/2012/08/18/how-commons-can-flourish/
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Institutional_analysis_and_development_framework
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tragedy_of_the_commons
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Institutional_analysis_and_development_framework
• The Institutional Analysis and Development Framework
• Principles of Open Source Institutional Design
• https://aspirationtech.org
• Governing Knowledge Commons by Brett M. Frischmann, Michael J. Madison, Katherine J. Strandburg

Picks Eric Berry:

• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Preacher_(comics)
• iPadOS Preview

Pia Mancini:

• The Age of Surveillance Capitalism by Shoshana Zuboff
• The Value of Everything by Mariana Mazzucato

Greg Bloom:

• https://responsibledata.io/
• https://digitalpublic.io/