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Alexey Sidorenko, Kiev, 22.06.2016

Sharing Is Caring: Share Your Data And Code

І не забуваймо творити добро й ділитися тим, що

маємо, з іншими […]

And do not forget to do good and to share with others […]

Sharing is deeply embedded in our culture

(through all kinds of narratives)

What is Open Source?What is Open Data?

Photo: Luis Esnal (CC-BY-SA)

Imagine a program

http://allrecipes.com/recipe/85469/indian-chapati-bread/

And it’s code…

Open source pancake software is a pancake software whose recipe

source code is available for modification or enhancement by

anyone.

https://opensource.com/resources/what-open-source

Icons by Olesya Kozlova and Tom Glass Jr.

(The Noun Project CC-BY)

And Open Data?

Bob can’t eat more than3 pancakes

Alice sometimes eats

4 pancakes

Open data – is data that can be freely used, re-

used and redistributed by anyone

http://opendatahandbook.org/guide/en/what-is-open-data/

Open Source Fears

Fears 1: Oh, they will steal my precious code!

No one had ever stolen our code

Hosting 23 public repositories

Fear 2: I’m too shy for my code!

Fear 3: My data is inconsistent!

Fear 4: the bad guys will use it!

Unless, we’re speaking about private data, data is always a friend of an open, democratic

society

Fear 5: I don’t have anything to open!

http://openlist.wiki/

Repressions lists

http://www.crisistextline.org/trends/

Crisis center data

http://www.crisistextline.org/trends/

Crisis center data

Advantages of Open Source

1. Scaling Up!

Open-source platform for matching volunteers

• >2.2K participants • >260 IT-tasks closed

https://github.com/Teplitsa/ITVolunteer

IT-волонтер

https://github.com/Teplitsa/ITVolunteer

A version of IT-Volunteer created in 5 hours

1. A WordPress plugin that significantly simplifies fundraising practically in any country of the world

2. >500 collecting organizations 3. >7,000 downloads4. 6 payment systems

2. Easier (and more transparent) to manage

your team / receive feedback

Github workflow is published in the internal Slack channel

3. Higher standards of coding and data

collection

Openness > Constraints > Perfection

Dance like no one’s watching,

code like everyone is!

4. Easier to evaluate community engagement

They care when they fork

5. Unexpected results

Serendipity means a "fortunate happenstance" or "pleasant surprise», a reference to a Persian fairy tale, The Three Princes of Serendip.

The princes, he told his correspondent, were "always making discoveries, by accidents and sagacity, of things which they were not in quest of".

6. It’s freedom. Freedom for your code, freedom for

your data

Recommendations

To the NGOs: think scalability and transparency!

To the governments: open up your data and

your code

To the society: expect Open Source and Data

Imagine if we could open up:• post service• public transportation• police• legislation (as a regulative

process) • taxes

To the donors: demand open source and open

data!

To the developers: do not forget to do good and to

share with others