Hi Raniere, Thank you for sharing.
I opened the report and immediately Ctrl-F'd for 'heritage'; I'm a little disappointed it returned nothing... But I will still take a look at this report. I'm very interested in the perspective where software is viewed as heritage, as developed by this project: https://www.softwareheritage.org/ By heritage we mean cultural heritage (within the meaning of Unesco). I'm also interested in reassessing the so-called 'digital commons' as commons. We have been identifying free software and software in the public domain with 'digital commons.' I think this is actually not accurate: Either it is too casual, or it is wishful thinking. We might get there (I don't see any incompatibility at this point), but we are not there yet; we may want to build on top of, say, FLOSS licensing, or we may want to refactor pro-sharing licenses on the basis of cultural rights (again, within the meaning of Unesco) [1, in French]. Indeed, free software licenses grant *individual* freedoms (which is great, but there is no collective dimension) and software in the public domain is virtually 'open bar' (so there is no management or governance whatsoever). Of course, some communities of practice do organize informally and, sometimes, formally. In a recent seminar [2, in Italian], I have praised the yt project for pushing the definition of its community and formally recognizing contributions which are not copyrighted or copyrightable material: for example, "yt has a model in place for recognizing contributions that go beyond code" [3]. So, FLOSS or Open Science are not collective (and, therefore, not cultural) *by design.* What makes commons commons (i.e., the social practice of sharing them within a collective project or with a collective vision) is not baked into FLOSS licensing or even Open Science philosophy (the latter may be arguable; if you haven't so already, please read Titus's piece [4]). To develop this view, I'm borrowing tools and concepts from political philosophy. To advance it further, I'd be happy to collaborate with people from this list or elsewhere, especially now that I have lost my job! Cheers, Marianne [1] https://scinfolex.com/2017/08/23/cinq-raisons-de-refonder-les-licences-libres-sur-les-droits-culturels/ [2] https://framagit.org/mkcor/software-libero/blob/master/notes/02_comunita.md [3] https://medium.com/@matthewturk/the-royal-we-in-scientific-software-development-9deea495b3b6 [4] http://ivory.idyll.org/blog/2016-what-is-open-science.html On Mon, Nov 6, 2017 at 9:29 AM, Raniere Silva <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi all, > > I came across this report about open source software sustainability and > though it was interest and worth sharing. A summary is available here. > > Cheers, > Raniere > > _______________________________________________ > Discuss mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.software-carpentry.org/listinfo/discuss _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.software-carpentry.org/listinfo/discuss
