H2020Индивидуална стипендия2017–2021

BEYOND-CODE · BEYOND THE CODE: SUSTAINABILITY IN OPEN SOURCE

„Хоризонт 2020“ — Действия „Мария Склодовска-Кюри“

Период: 2017-09-16 → 2021-06-13
Финансиране от ЕС: 170 122 €
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Схема: MSCA-IF-EF-ST

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Накратко на български

Устойчивостта на софтуера с отворен код се изучава извън техническата среда, като например при платформи за гражданско участие. Това помага да се разбере как подобни проекти поддържат демократичните институции и как да се балансират интересите на участниците в тях.

Този кратък обзор е генериран от изкуствен интелект

Кратко обяснение, генерирано от езиков модел по текста на CORDIS. Оригиналът е по-долу.

Резултати накратко

BEYOND THE CODE: SUSTAINABILITY IN OPEN SOURCE

The purpose of the project was to understand how open source sustainability is managed beyond technical production environments. Since open source software is increasingly common and no longer the sole remit of software developers, it is important to understand how it is sustained in more open social contexts. There is one particular software type that is becoming increasingly relevant and important: open source civic tech platforms which can be considered meta open source projects. Such systems help create direct communication links to its citizenry. Recently, the Conference on the Future of Europe has launched such a platform. Many such platforms tend to be open source, in part because they can leverage a great number of digital activists interested in innovating and sustaining democratic institutions. In a context of democratic disenchantment, open source can play an important role in fostering democratic societies and opening our cities to its citizens. The project’s resulting output provides a theoretical basis from which to study open source sustainability beyond technical environments. In particular, one of the derived frameworks suggests that there exist different types of sustainability that interact and may conflict with each other. By extending sustainability beyond the technical scope, we increase our ability to assess the validity of larger open source projects that have become part of non-technical organisations of work and of the social. The findings suggest that such projects require the deployment of a participatory infrastructure that must be adapted to tap into and balance the passions and interests of potential participants. These findings can be exploited to anticipate the sustainability requirements of non-technical open source initiatives which face greater challenges than technical open source ones due to the higher heterogeneity of participants.

Текст от CORDIS, на английски · Данни: CORDIS, © Европейски съюз

Цел на проекта

Open Source (OS) software is particular in that it can be accessed and modified openly. Originating from technological labs, OS is now ubiquitous and a major part of the EU's economy. Some estimate it to be 450 billions per year (EUR). The increasing ubiquity of OS has turned it into a configuration of social and societal elements such as the decentralised ownership of projects or meeting needs that traditional markets cannot. The socio-technical configurations of OS are not evident, perhaps not even intended. The various meanings of sustainability enact how OS ideas are created and travel beyond their original birthing place, but have, as yet, mainly received a rational/economic focus. This project proposes to explore OS as it travels beyond its designing communities and, in so doing, re-functions the meaning of sociological sustainability that hold it in place. This proposal follows the ER's natural career progression, having studied the development processes of OS projects. In collaboration with the supervisor, the ER has designed a proposal fuses their multi-disciplinary expertise to study sustainability in a new light, along with a tailored training plan that gives the ER key competencies and expertise to secure future career objectives. The CSIC has been chosen as an ideal host for this project, with its large, multi-disciplinary social science department holding some of Spain's most renown OS scholars.Alternative views of sustainability open new research avenues that recognise the importance of other criteria (e.g. inclusive participation), providing novel debate within the academic world. Such articulations will be immediately useful to EU projects that depend on open forms of participation (e.g. EU's CAPS project call), and the EU's agenda on ethical knowledge production. A key result will be to create a framework that accounts for socio-technical views on sustainability, allowing innovators to better meet societal needs within their development processes

Оригинален текст от CORDIS (на английски).

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