Presentation at the ISO IT Forum in Geneva on November 29, 2011

1. Forget about eCommittees
Harish Pillay
ISO ITAG/JTC 1/Red Hat/ITSC Singapore
ISO IT Forum
Nov 29 - Dec 1 2011
Geneva
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2. About me
➲ Member of ISO IT Advisory Group (ITAG)
on behalf of JTC 1
➲ $DayJob with Red Hat, based in Singapore
➲ $DayJob – Global Head, Community Archi-
tecture and Leadership – looking at the
greater Free and Open Source community
globally to encourage & nurture their growth
➲ Been in the IT industry for over 20 years
➲ Member of the Singapore IT Standards
Committee (www.itsc.org.sg)
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3. How does the Free and Open
Source community collaborate?
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4. Caveat:
My suggestions and ideas might
annoy people
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5. A parachute works best when open
– just as a mind and an organiza-
tion works best when open
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6. How does the Free and Open
Source community collaborate?
➲ Default to open
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7. How does the Free and Open
Source community collaborate?
➲ Default to open
➲ Transparency is central
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8. How does the Free and Open
Source community collaborate?
➲ Default to open
➲ Transparency is central
➲ Document everything
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9. How does the Free and Open
Source community collaborate?
➲ Default to open
➲ Transparency is central
➲ Document everything
➲ Use only standards based tools to collabo-
rate – IRC, etherpads, emails, wikis, blogs,
bugzilla, git
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10. How does the Free and Open
Source community collaborate?
➲ Default to open
➲ Transparency is central
➲ Document everything
➲ Use only standards based tools to collabo-
rate – IRC, etherpads, emails, wikis, blogs,
bugzilla, git
➲ Expect chaos initially – take baby-steps to
build a community
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11. How does the Free and Open
Source community collaborate?
➲ Default to open
➲ Transparency is central
➲ Document everything
➲ Use only standards based tools to collabo-
rate – IRC, etherpads, emails, wikis, blogs,
bugzilla, git
➲ Expect chaos initially – take baby-steps to
build a community
➲ Do not be afraid to invite people to partici-
pate
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12. How does the Free and Open
Source community collaborate?
➲ Default to open
➲ Transparency is central
➲ Document everything
➲ Use only standards based tools to collabo-
rate – IRC, etherpads, emails, wikis, blogs,
bugzilla, git
➲ Expect chaos initially – take baby-steps to
build a community
➲ Do not be afraid to invite people to partici-
pate
➲ Build on concensus and good governance
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13. The eCommittee
➲ Disclosure: I've not used it.
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14. The eCommittee
➲ Disclosure: I've not used it.
➲ Are there alternatives to OpenText? Yes,
plenty. And a lot of them are free & open
source versions like Drupal.org for example.
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15. The eCommittee
➲ Disclosure: I've not used it.
➲ Are there alternatives to OpenText? Yes,
plenty. And a lot of them are free & open
source versions like Drupal.org for example.
➲ How does the FOSS world collaborate to
build technology that powers today's super-
computers, stock exchanges, wifi routers,
smart phones, smart TVs?
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16. Obvious Questions
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17. Obvious Questions
➲ Should the ISO be using technologies that are
not open source?
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18. Obvious Questions
➲ Should the ISO be using technologies that are
not open source?
➲ Would ISO be interested in creating an ecosys-
tem of technologies that are 100% open
source that can be proliferated globally for the
greater benefit of society?
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19. Obvious Questions
➲ Should the ISO be using technologies that are
not open source?
➲ Would ISO be interested in creating an ecosys-
tem of technologies that are 100% open
source that can be proliferated globally for the
greater benefit of society?
➲ Aren't distributed and federated systems better
than centralized (as proposed by an audience
member this morning)?
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20. Suggestions for 2015
➲ Create data.iso.org
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21. Suggestions for 2015
➲ Create data.iso.org
➲ Remove logins for people to get and mash up
standards
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22. Suggestions for 2015
➲ Create data.iso.org
➲ Remove logins for people to get and mash up
standards
➲ If ISO is to remain relevant, it has to drastically
change the business model and let “citizen-led
standards making” take root
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23. Suggestions for 2015
➲ Create data.iso.org
➲ Remove logins for people to get and mash up
standards
➲ If ISO is to remain relevant, it has to drastically
change the business model and let “citizen-led
standards making” take root
➲ Does not negate need for national standards
bodies or the very important role of experts –
cf. success and accuracy of wikipedia
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24. Suggestions for 2015
➲ Create data.iso.org
➲ Remove logins for people to get and mash up
standards
➲ If ISO is to remain relevant, it has to drastically
change the business model and let “citizen-led
standards making” take root
➲ Does not negate need for national standards
bodies or the very important role of experts –
cf. success and accuracy of wikipedia
➲ Adopt Creative Commons licensing as the
standard, i.e., don't say “IP” if all that's meant
is copyright.
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25. Some observations II
➲ Multi-lingual: transifex.net
➲ Standard wiki with locking – available today al-
ready – perhaps etherpad and drupal
➲ Can OpenText be run on a
federated/distributed manner?
➲ Using the Cloud – Google Docs/Calendar. Note
the lack of distributed environments – single
point of failure
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26. Thank you.
h.pillay@ieee.org
hpillay@redhat.com
@harishpillay
harishpillay.wordpress.com
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