SOS 003: Greg Bloom Explains Open Source Initiative

Sustain Our Software

English - August 06, 2019 10:03 - 1 hour - 64.6 MB - ★★★★★ - 2 ratings
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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