Sustain: Episode 3: Greg Bloom discusses the Principles of Commons Governance
SustainOSS 8/8/19 - Episode Page
Sponsors
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/our-video-open-referral-in-three-minutes/
Governing the Commons by Elinor Ostrom
Tragedy of the Commons by Garrett Hardin
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
Governing Knowledge Commons by Brett M. Frischmann, Michael J. Madison, Katherine J. Strandburg
Picks
Eric Berry:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Preacher_(comics)
Pia Mancini:
The Age of Surveillance Capitalism by Shoshana Zuboff
The Value of Everything by Mariana Mazzucato
Greg Bloom:
Special Guest: Greg Bloom.