Forget about-e committees

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Forget about eCommittees

Harish PillayISO ITAG/JTC 1/Red Hat/ITSC Singapore

ISO IT ForumNov 29 - Dec 1 2011

Geneva


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)


How does the Free and Open Source community collaborate?


Caveat:My suggestions and ideas might

annoy people


A parachute works best when open – just as a mind and an organiza-

tion works best when open



➲ Default to open



➲ Default to open➲ Transparency is central



➲ Default to open➲ Transparency is central➲ Document everything



➲ 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






➲ Do not be afraid to invite people to partici-pate

➲ Build on concensus and good governance


The eCommittee

➲ Disclosure: I've not used it.


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.


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?


Obvious Questions


Obvious Questions

➲ Should the ISO be using technologies that are not open source?


Obvious Questions


➲ 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?


Obvious Questions


➲ 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)?


Suggestions for 2015

➲ Create data.iso.org



➲ Create data.iso.org➲ Remove logins for people to get and mash up

standards



➲ 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


Suggestions for 2015➲ Create data.iso.org➲ Remove logins for people to get and mash up



➲ Does not negate need for national standards bodies or the very important role of experts – cf. success and accuracy of wikipedia


Suggestions for 2015➲ Create data.iso.org➲ Remove logins for people to get and mash up



➲ 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.


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


Thank you.

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