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OSI: Open Standards & Interop

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Problem:

Can we build an Open Ecosystem to drive growth, give equal opportunities to all, and increase the synergies across Cardano projects?

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Why is it important?

To deliver complex software, driving collaboration, and accelerating innovation by sharing identity, practices, and sw components/services.

What does success look like?

Establish a vendor-neutral ecosystem to

  • drive growth, awareness, discoverability

  • increase commercial adoption

  • provide needed infrastructures

    Key Metrics to measure

  • Open standards adoption should increase among cardano projects. On the long term, all of the community-funded projects should be open and transparent by following common standards.

  • There should be observable improvements: easier to discover projects and find project resources, more intuitive to access project knowledge base (documentation, how-to, etc.), and simple to find and contact project members.

  • It should be possible to have project synergies by allowing simple inter-project communication, knowledge sharing, and re-use of existing components/services.

  • We should observe an increase in open-source contributions to different projects: both from new joiners and from other people already in the Cardano community

  • We should observe an increase in reputability of the Cardano Open Source projects. The measure can be done by looking at media communications of various open source communities.

    Challenge brief

Open standards built on the principles of openness, transparency and consensus lay the grounds for innovation, growth and fair competition. Open standards are not synonymous of open source. [OPSTD]

We look at Open Source as the best way to enable interoperability between different technologies and applications. But in the Cardano Ecosystem we have a set of open source projects that have <u>no standards for basic cross-project integration</u>. For instance, there are no standards on how to document, set-up, and contribute-to projects. Moreover, there is no common infrastructure that the projects can use to track issues, and publish basic public information about the <u>projects funded by the community</u>.

We are of the advise that we need a set of standards, processes, and infrastructures to be used by the Cardano open source projects, such that (1) The teams of different O.S. projects can easily collaborate; (2) New-joiners can easily discover, understand, test, and contribute to existing O.S. projects; (3) Cardano O.S. projects can access a pool of basic infrastructures and tools that are needed.

Motivation

As mentioned by Charles Hoskinson [1] "Cardano code is Open Source, but needs to be managed like a true open source project, like Linux and other O.S. projects [..]".

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T88_XKzi8ms&t=492s

In order to proceed in this direction, we need to use Catalyst as a governance over a true, vendor-neutral open source and open-standards ecosystem. To achieve that, we are missing processes (e.g. how the project teams should behave and participate in the ecosystem), and infrastructures (e.g. VCS, CMS, Wiki, Forum, etc.)

Guiding questions:

  • How can we guide the growth of a vendor neutral ecosystem?
  • How can we build a common identity and increase awareness on Cardano projects?
  • How can we increase the discoverability and the commercial adoption of our projects?
  • How can we increase the degree of collaboration across different projects?
  • How can we lower the barriers and increase open participation to our ecosystem?
  • How can we provide equal opportunities to all projects no matter the size?

Possible directions:

  • Incentivize collaboration across projects to solve complex problems
  • Introduce common standards and processes and incentivize their adoption across projects
  • Provide cross-project infrastructures and tools needed to co-ordinate
  • Ensure the existence of a cohesive knowledge base
  • Support a network of professional technology ambassadors

Note

This challenge builds on top of the existing F8 Open Standards & Interoperability and is loosely related to F9 OSDE Open Source Dev Ecosystem (https://cardano.ideascale.com/c/idea/401296).

Shortly said: This challenge (OSI) is about Openness, standardization, and interoperability across open source projects funded by the community, while the "open source" (OSDE) one is about increasing the number/quality of projects.

References

[OPSTD] Almeida, Fernando & José, Oliveira & José, Cruz. (2011). Open Standards And Open Source: Enabling Interoperability. International Journal of Software Engineering & Applications. 2. 10.5121/ijsea.2011.2101.

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