Alexey Sidorenko - Sharing Is Caring: Share Your Data And Code #pdfua

1. Alexey Sidorenko, Kiev, 22.06.2016
Sharing Is Caring:
Share Your Data And
Code

2. І не забуваймо творити
добро й ділитися тим, що
маємо, з іншими […]
And do not forget to do good and to share with others […]

3. Sharing is deeply embedded
in our culture (through all
kinds of narratives)

4. What is Open Source?
What is Open Data?

5. Photo: Luis Esnal (CC-BY-SA)
Imagine a program

6. http://allrecipes.com/recipe/85469/indian-chapati-bread/
And it’s code…

7. 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

8. Icons by Olesya Kozlova and Tom Glass Jr.
(The Noun Project CC-BY)
And Open Data?
Bob can’t eat
more than
3 pancakes
Alice sometimes
eats
4 pancakes

9. Open data – is data that can
be freely used, re-used and
redistributed by anyone
http://opendatahandbook.org/guide/en/what-
is-open-data/

10. Open Source Fears

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

12. No one had ever stolen our code
Hosting 23 public repositories

13. Fear 2: I’m too shy for my
code!

14. Fear 3: My data is
inconsistent!

15. Fear 4: the bad guys will use
it!

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

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

18. http://openlist.wiki/
Repressions lists

19. http://www.crisistextline.org/trends/
Crisis center data

20. http://www.crisistextline.org/trends/
Crisis center data

21. Advantages of Open Source

22. 1. Scaling Up!

23. Open-source platform for matching
volunteers
• >2.2K participants
• >260 IT-tasks closed

24. https://github.com/Teplitsa/ITVolunteer
IT-волонтер

25. https://github.com/Teplitsa/ITVolunteer
A version of IT-Volunteer created in 5 hours

26. 1. A WordPress plugin that
significantly simplifies fundraising
practically in any country of the
world
2. >500 collecting organizations
3. >7,000 downloads
4. 6 payment systems

27. 2. Easier (and more
transparent) to manage your
team / receive feedback

28. Github workflow is published in the internal
Slack channel

29. 3. Higher standards of
coding and data collection

30. Openness > Constraints >
Perfection

31. Dance like no one’s watching,
code like everyone is!

32. 4. Easier to evaluate
community engagement

33. They care when they fork

34. 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".

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

36. Recommendations

37. To the NGOs: think scalability
and transparency!

38. To the governments: open
up your data and your code

39. To the society: expect Open
Source and Data

40. Imagine if we could open up:
• post service
• public transportation
• police
• legislation (as a regulative
process)
• taxes

41. To the donors: demand
open source and open data!

42. To the developers: do not
forget to do good and to share
with others