If place is a system, let's make it an open source one
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The document discusses applying open source principles to improving places and communities. It suggests that if place is viewed as a system, an open source approach could involve: 1) Users identifying issues and reporting them 2) Making progress on solutions transparent and viewable by all 3) Allowing anyone to suggest solutions and, if agreed upon, implement them to address issues This differs from existing tools by facilitating cross-department cooperation, increasing visibility of improvement processes, and opening up to unconventional solutions. Open knowledge and data are also noted as important to the approach.
If place is a system, let's make it an open source one
- 1. If place is a system… let’s make it an open source one Devon County Council 12 November 2012
- 3. People + Process > Technology
- 6. Computers are interesting things
- 8. "wholly new forms of encyclopedias will appear, ready made with a mesh of associative trails running through them, ready to be dropped into the memex and there amplified"
- 10. “The mother of all demos” Video conferencing Real time collaborative editing Hypertext Dynamically linked documents
- 12. Hypertext
- 15. Project Xanadu: "the longest-running vaporware project in the history of computing"
- 17. Hacker culture Rise of the software industry Gnu (1983) FSF (1985)
- 18. Free as in speech, not as in beer
- 22. “Given enough eyeballs, all bugs are shallow”
- 23. Most contributors to FOSS are users, not developers
- 24. The bug tracker
- 25. 1. Identifies 2. Prioritises 3. Solutionises 4. Reportulises
- 26. An open source approach to place?
- 27. (If we view place as a system, albeit rather a complicated one)
- 28. 1. Users spot bugs and report 2. Progress is open and viewable 3. Anyone can suggest, and (if agreed) implement solutions.
- 29. Not “Fix My Street!”
- 30. 1. Helps with cross-service issues 2. Visibility of process 3. Potential for left-field solutions
- 31. Don’t forget: Open knowledge Open data