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Open Source & the Planet

Proposal for participation in Greenpeace Planet 4

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Why does it matter now?

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What does it really mean?

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Who will be involved?

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How will your NRO benefit from open contributions?

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Will anyone participate?

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Aligned Values

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People want and need social credit

Listing as a contributor on a project page

Shout-out on social media (e.g. by a significant individual / organisation)

Swag (e.g. t-shirts, bags, pins)

Digital credential

What encourages you to contribute to Open Source projects?

Prizes (e.g. a bug bounty)

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What kind of skills might we expect?

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Small tasks to chip away at big asks

Research ask: Which of these symbols creates the most engagement?

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What is a Day of Action?

A Day of Action is about making some noise.
A Day of Action is about encouraging synchronous contribution
A Day of Action is about onboarding new contributors
It will grow capacity.
It gives us a focus: a date by which a number of plans and processes will be in place.

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What will it deliver?

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What benefits do we envisage?

Autonomy: We aim to organize the Day of Action initiative in a way that anyone can participate from anywhere, and people can choose what they want to work on.

Relationships: The initiative will strengthen connections between staff members, as well as between nonprofit and open source organizations.

Fairness: This will help push the Planet 4 open source project forward, helping to rebalance resources between the world of technology and nonprofit.

Status: The Day of Action will provide a “sense of importance and belonging” as well as social credit to all contributors.

Certainty: We will give staff and other contributors a solid agenda and timeline for contributing to P4.

In particular, we’re proposing that a Day of Action around Open Source contribution to the Planet 4 project will lead to five main benefits:

Relationships - not only will we strengthen relationships between Greenpeace staffers, we’ll also forge and develop relationships with nonprofits and open source organisations

Certainty - focusing on a Day of Action means that staff and other contributors have a solid agenda and timeline for contributing to Planet 4

Status - the Day of Action will raise awareness of the Planet 4 project in the Open Source community, and enable those who contribute to demonstrate their participation in meaningful ways

Autonomy - we want the Day of Action to improve the legibility of the Planet 4 project so that anyone can participate from anywhere, choose what they want to work on, and get involved as little or as much as they like

Fairness - all of this will push forward the Planet 4 project, and help rebalance resources between the worlds of tech and nonprofit

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When will it take place?

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When will it take place?

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Yes, but how?

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What do we need?

So what do we need? Well, we’ve defined priority areas which we need to sense check and get feedback on. We need documentation about the general technical setup of the Planet 4 platform. We’ll need to update the Planet 4 handbook and develop marketing materials.

However, as the old saying goes, no-one ploughs the field just by thinking about it, so we need your buy-in, your attention, and your engagement. We’re all going to have a part to play in this, with the aim to build capacity, and make even more of an impact through Planet 4 as a platform.

Please join us in our upcoming community calls, we want to ensure that YOU are involved and informed from the beginning. We want to help you connect to open source advocates in YOUR regions, to help Greenpeace use people-powered momentum not only at on the ground actions, but elsewhere in our work as well. In our calls we will plan together, identify priorities together and share resources together.

We think this has the potential to be huge, and we hope you agree.

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Questions?