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Presentation at the ISO IT Forum in Geneva on November 29, 2011TRANSCRIPT
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Forget about eCommittees
Harish PillayISO ITAG/JTC 1/Red Hat/ITSC Singapore
ISO IT ForumNov 29 - Dec 1 2011
Geneva
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About me
➲ Member of ISO IT Advisory Group (ITAG) on behalf of JTC 1
➲ $DayJob with Red Hat, based in Singapore➲ $DayJob – Global Head, Community Archi-
tecture and Leadership – looking at the greater Free and Open Source community globally to encourage & nurture their growth
➲ Been in the IT industry for over 20 years➲ Member of the Singapore IT Standards
Committee (www.itsc.org.sg)
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How does the Free and Open Source community collaborate?
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Caveat:My suggestions and ideas might
annoy people
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A parachute works best when open – just as a mind and an organiza-
tion works best when open
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How does the Free and Open Source community collaborate?
➲ Default to open
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How does the Free and Open Source community collaborate?
➲ Default to open➲ Transparency is central
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How does the Free and Open Source community collaborate?
➲ Default to open➲ Transparency is central➲ Document everything
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How does the Free and Open Source community collaborate?
➲ Default to open➲ Transparency is central➲ Document everything➲ Use only standards based tools to collabo-
rate – IRC, etherpads, emails, wikis, blogs, bugzilla, git
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How does the Free and Open Source community collaborate?
➲ Default to open➲ Transparency is central➲ Document everything➲ Use only standards based tools to collabo-
rate – IRC, etherpads, emails, wikis, blogs, bugzilla, git
➲ Expect chaos initially – take baby-steps to build a community
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ISO/IEC JTC 1This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License.
How does the Free and Open Source community collaborate?
➲ Default to open➲ Transparency is central➲ Document everything➲ Use only standards based tools to collabo-
rate – IRC, etherpads, emails, wikis, blogs, bugzilla, git
➲ Expect chaos initially – take baby-steps to build a community
➲ Do not be afraid to invite people to partici-pate
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How does the Free and Open Source community collaborate?
➲ Default to open➲ Transparency is central➲ Document everything➲ Use only standards based tools to collabo-
rate – IRC, etherpads, emails, wikis, blogs, bugzilla, git
➲ Expect chaos initially – take baby-steps to build a community
➲ Do not be afraid to invite people to partici-pate
➲ Build on concensus and good governance
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The eCommittee
➲ Disclosure: I've not used it.
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The eCommittee
➲ Disclosure: I've not used it.➲ Are there alternatives to OpenText? Yes,
plenty. And a lot of them are free & open source versions like Drupal.org for example.
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The eCommittee
➲ Disclosure: I've not used it.➲ Are there alternatives to OpenText? Yes,
plenty. And a lot of them are free & open source versions like Drupal.org for example.
➲ How does the FOSS world collaborate to build technology that powers today's super-computers, stock exchanges, wifi routers, smart phones, smart TVs?
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Obvious Questions
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Obvious Questions
➲ Should the ISO be using technologies that are not open source?
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Obvious Questions
➲ Should the ISO be using technologies that are not open source?
➲ Would ISO be interested in creating an ecosys-tem of technologies that are 100% open source that can be proliferated globally for the greater benefit of society?
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Obvious Questions
➲ Should the ISO be using technologies that are not open source?
➲ Would ISO be interested in creating an ecosys-tem of technologies that are 100% open source that can be proliferated globally for the greater benefit of society?
➲ Aren't distributed and federated systems better than centralized (as proposed by an audience member this morning)?
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Suggestions for 2015
➲ Create data.iso.org
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Suggestions for 2015
➲ Create data.iso.org➲ Remove logins for people to get and mash up
standards
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Suggestions for 2015
➲ Create data.iso.org➲ Remove logins for people to get and mash up
standards➲ If ISO is to remain relevant, it has to drastically
change the business model and let “citizen-led standards making” take root
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Suggestions for 2015➲ Create data.iso.org➲ Remove logins for people to get and mash up
standards➲ If ISO is to remain relevant, it has to drastically
change the business model and let “citizen-led standards making” take root
➲ Does not negate need for national standards bodies or the very important role of experts – cf. success and accuracy of wikipedia
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Suggestions for 2015➲ Create data.iso.org➲ Remove logins for people to get and mash up
standards➲ If ISO is to remain relevant, it has to drastically
change the business model and let “citizen-led standards making” take root
➲ Does not negate need for national standards bodies or the very important role of experts – cf. success and accuracy of wikipedia
➲ Adopt Creative Commons licensing as the standard, i.e., don't say “IP” if all that's meant is copyright.
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Some observations II➲ Multi-lingual: transifex.net➲ Standard wiki with locking – available today al-
ready – perhaps etherpad and drupal➲ Can OpenText be run on a
federated/distributed manner?➲ Using the Cloud – Google Docs/Calendar. Note
the lack of distributed environments – single point of failure
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Thank you.
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