Civic Tech: Beneath the Surface

Presented at TICTec '17

Transcript

1. Beneath The Surface The State of Civic Tech TICTec 2017, Firenze
2. Open Source on Civic Tech The Impact of
3. Civic Tech On Open Source The Impact of
4. Benjamin Nickolls Hello @BenJam (pretty much everywhere)
5. Andrew Nesbitt Small Title Text Subtitle text
6. Helping you make more informed decisions about the software you depend upon.Helping you make more informed decisions about the software you use. The Open Source Discovery Service “
7. PageRank We’re really unimaginative Subtitle text Image © Clusteric
9. Image © Me (Licensed CC)
10. Small Title Text Subtitle text
11. 33 Package Managers 23m Repositories 85.6m Dependencies 2.24m Projects 8.44m Versions Gobble Gobble
13. Discoverability Maintainability Sustainability Why?
14. Discoverability Recommendations based on what people use
15. Maintainability Updates monitored, user base reflected back to maintainers
16. Sustainability Wait? What?
18. Nadia Small Title Text Subtitle text
19. Roads and Bridges Small Title Text Subtitle text
20. Roads & Bridges Shared, public code makes up the digital infrastructure of our society today. In the face of unprecedented demand, the costs of not supporting our digital infrastructure are numerous. No individual company or organisation is incentivised to address the public good problem alone. In order to support our digital infrastructure, we must find ways to work together. Abridged “
21. What is Digital Infrastructure? Warning! Assumptions follow
22. 1,000 most depended upon 38,262 contributors 1,061,393 What is ‘Digital Infrastructure’?
24. What is Civic Tech? Warning, more assumptions follow (forgive me)
26. 4,834 Projects 6,705 Contributors 1,118,039 Commits What is Civic Tech?
27. Open Source on Civic Tech The Impact of Value extracted from the commons
28. 6,355 Projects 81,187 People 2,682,407 Commits PLUS!
29. 910/1,000 Projects Impact of Open Source on Civic Tech Essential to Civic Tech and Open Source
30. Civic Tech on Open Source The Impact of Value contributed back to the commons
31. 2,977 contributors 410,625 commits 15% of total Civic Tech Contribution to Dependencies
32. Civic Tech Contributions Small Title Text Subtitle text
33. 1,177 contributors 151,415 commits 5.6% of total Civic Tech Contribution to Digital Infrastructure
34. How healthy are those foundations? BUT! Let’s take a peek…
35. 212/1,000 Projects Unseen Infrastructure With fewer than 100 ‘stars’, not enough attention
36. 152/1,000 Projects Bus Factor With five or fewer contributors
37. 134/1,000 Projects Unseen+Bus Factor Really need more attention
38. 60/1,000 Projects Licence Conflicts Are incompatibly licenced
39. 5.6% of Digital Infrastructure Impact of Civic Tech on Open Source Think more about the software we depended upon Consider and support maintainers Focus efforts on projects in need
40. @BenJam P.S This was a crap coffee Thanks Find me wherever