Hi, this is a quick summary of me, SJ, and Kent's discussion this morning for the next two weeks of LibreCorps work with UNICEF's open source start-up cohorts.
=== Who we're working with
We are working with twelve different companies supported by the UNICEF Innovation Fund (https://unicefinnovationfund.org). Six of them work with blockchain and finish their funding round on 2019-12-31. The other six work with VR / IoT and finish on 2020-04-30.
All of them are required to release critical components of their product as open source to be considered successful. Many of them are getting involved in open source for the first time.
=== Identify success criteria
We need an objective way to measure success of each team in accomplishing open source community goals, as taken from the Fogel/Flory plan. Starting with a base set of categories and determining pass/fail criteria for each category is a good first step.
https://github.com/FOSSRIT/tasks/issues/85
=== Create open source community rubric
Using the success criteria, build a "rubric" to score an open source project on how well they implement various community goals. The idea is each part of the rubric can be evaluated as an A, B, C, D, or F with criteria to explain why a grade is given. This is partly inspired by the Calloway Coefficient of Fail and "Producing Open Source Software" by Karl Fogel.
https://github.com/FOSSRIT/tasks/issues/86
=== Scheduling phone calls
We are trying to schedule 1x1 calls with each of the six blockchain start-ups this week. This will help us understand how far along each of them are in their open source strategy and where their greatest needs are.
https://github.com/FOSSRIT/tasks/issues/87
Stay tuned on the GitHub issues for more detailed discussions.
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