How about this for the weekend?
Earlier today we published a study showing that public services need to nurture and sustain vulnerable small projects
https://joinup.ec.europa.eu/collection/fosseps/news/funding-sustainability
Just so you're all aware: the annexes have been added (sometime last week). Enjoy reading!
@EC_OSPO We also need more people in official capacity to understand open source, small projects, and similar. There's far too little understanding and far too much ignorance.
Good morning! Well, there is always this ..
https://social.network.europa.eu/@EC_DIGIT/108214734076091230
@EC_OSPO Absolutely. But speaking more specifically about open source, we need to raise awareness.
@EC_OSPO that's *very* true in the field of bioinformatics, which I'm working in. Many key open source solutions there are maintained by frighteningly small teams.
As just one example, essentially all SARS-CoV-2 variant detection that the whole world benefits from, uses https://github.com/cov-lineages/pangolin or https://github.com/nextstrain/nextclade.
Lineage assignments made with these tools are underlying anything from WHO statements to newspapers headlines, but look at the CoV-lineages and nextstrain teams :-D
@EC_OSPO really nice.
For those who wanna see if its worth clicking through. I think it is 😊
Following #FOSS #funding reports and annexes can be found:
- Development of a Funding Mechanism for Sustaining Open Source Software for European Public Services
- Annex A - Existing Top Down Funding Mechanisms
- Annex B - Existing Bottom Up Funding Mechanisms
- Annex C - Non Financial Sustainability Issues and Solutions
- Funding Mechanism Study - Docx Files
- Funding Mechanism Study - ODT Files
There are a number of attachments that we'll be uploading here soon.