Building open infrastructure for a thriving planet.
Open Source infrastructure deserves a business model
Open Source infrastructure is essential, invisible, and chronically underfunded. A more sustainable approach may be to connect the cost of running that infrastructure to the organizations that rely on it most.
Open Sustainable Technology
Open technology projects sustaining stable climate, energy supply, biodiversity and vital natural resources
About | Open Source Ecology
The mission of Open Source Ecology (OSE) is to create the open source economy. An open source, libre economy is an efficient economy which increases innovation by open collaboration. To get there, OSE is currently developing a set of open source blueprints for the Global Village Construction Set (GVCS) – a set of the 50 most important machines that it takes for modern life to exist – everything from a tractor, to an oven, to a circuit maker.
What does a sustainable open source project look like?
Over the past couple years, thanks in part to Nadia Eghbal’s Roads and Bridges report, the world is starting to see the need for long-term…
Open Home Foundation
The Open Home Foundation fights for the principles of privacy, choice, and sustainability for smart homes. And for every person who lives in one. It does this by supporting the development of open source projects, and open connectivity and communication standards.
The Politics of Open Infrastructures: Power, Governance, and Justice in Digital Knowledge Practices
This volume examines how openness is designed, governed, contested and lived in contemporary digital knowledge infrastructures. From open source software and internet standards, to citizen science platforms, public sector data systems and alternative computing practices, the book shows that infrastructures are never neutral technical backbones.
Open source projects are a lot more exciting than roads and bridges
In July, the Ford Foundation released “Roads and Bridges: The Unseen Labor Behind Our Digital Infrastructure”, a report on the problem of…
The Open Stack | LinkedIn
Notes from the field on sustainability, funding, and the systems we rely on
Ecosystem Mapping — Open Tech Strategies | Blog
All the power of open source comes from throwing in with your neighbors, even the neighbors you don't like very much. For most projects, the main reason to get involved in open source is to create productive relations with as many participants as possible, including rivals. Doing this well requires understanding who is in your ecosystem and how they relate to each other.
Moving beyond the charity framework
A healthy ecosystem for supporting open source in the long term.
The New Deal for the Open Source Community
Building the Economic Layer to our Digital Infrastructure
