Internal ticket tracker related to LibreCorps project planning and management.
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I think given the amount of work we are doing, it would be incredibly useful to have at least some branding resources that we can use with out documents and communications.
Ideally we would have a brand book
Write and submit an article about LibreCorps and our resources to Opensource.com
This summer was busy and we made advancements on our resources for UNICEF cohorts. We want to write an article about what we did and some of the general applicability of these resources for anyone building and developing free/open source software projects and communities.
Help add SJ's GitHub account to this LibreCorps GitHub organization
SJ is not a member of this GH organization, probably should do some follow-up to get him here since he is not seeing any of this discussion.
SJ receives emails about new discussion / focus for GH task tracking / planning
Write abstract and description for Birds of a Feather (BoF) session about transparent/ethical evaluations of AI in FOSDEM 2020 before 11 October CFP deadline
@Nolski and I discussed the idea of splitting up into two sessions about a week ago.
A FOSDEM 2020 main track session gives our ideas on AI transparency and ethics a platform, but it is mostly unidirectional, i.e. we are talking to an audience. To better support our overall mission, combining the main track proposal with a ≥60 minutes BoF session affords us bidirectional conversations with others at FOSDEM.
We also reach two different audiences: the main track session gives a general overview of our ideas for anyone, and the BoF session offers a deeper dive on AI transparency/ethics for those with deeper background and interest.
Need to write abstract and description before 11 October CFP deadline.
In another issue, we can discuss a roadmap of how to facilitate the session and best engage a crowd of people with our ideas (maybe taking a page or two out of our MozFest facilitator handbook). But I figure it is best to wait for CFP status updates before investing too much time into planning an open-ended BoF session.
cc: @itprofjacobs
Export brainstorming notes / ideas into easy-to-read outline format
Our brainstorming notes are in a shared Google Doc. We received a few rounds of feedback on our core ideas and thoughts. Now, we are in a position to frame them into an outline for the FOSDEM talk.
Enable us to receive targeted feedback on our main ideas without overwhelming someone with the full contents of our brainstorming document
While skimming the opensource.com article today, I drilled down two levels deep from the provided links into the Google Docs reading list, and noticed a typo.
I've since done the usual: Forked and cloned the librecorps/resources repo, corrected it in my clone, pushed to my fork, and from my fork issued a pull request to upstream. Assuming that goes through well enough, that will correct the typo in the repo. (Maybe I should have saved it as an easy bug for HFOSS but alas sometimes I have to just do the thing.) So far so good.
Along the way of doing that though I noticed a few things that aren't clear to me but that might be documented somewhere if only I can get some pointers and which might help other potential contributors less familiar with LibreCorps day-to-day:
What is the relationship between the resources repo and the Google docs?
How does content flow from one to the other, and in which direction?
Since the Google docs versions are the published ones but are not generally editable (I cannot, for instance, edit them from my non-RIT Google account), how might someone who is less familiar than me with our idiosyncratic use of tasks repos meant to channel their contributions? Any chance we can eventually replace each of the Google docs with some short text redirecting to their counterparts on the web site?
I noticed that the config.toml file makes reference to https://librecorps.github.io/resources which is fine. but the base URL (https://librecorps.github.io/) is 404, which I found disorienting.
Write article describing the open source metrics UNICEF Innovation is using to evaluate projects
This is a <1000 word write-up about what metrics UNICEF is collecting, the KPIs the metrics connect to, and a high-level overview of how the formulas work. The scoring system devised by the UNICEF Innovation team (currently living in an offline spreadsheet) is really cool, and serves as an interesting application of the criteria we evaluate on to a mathematically-sound evaluation system.
Writing this article is a win-win for LibreCorps and UNICEF for the following reasons:
I'm waiting on a high-level overview of the formulas from Cecilia. Once I have it, I'll start working through their scoring system to craft an article sometime in December 2019. We'll work on publishing in January 2020, leading up to CHAOSScon on January 31st.
Evaluate whether GrimoireLab is a useful metrics tool for LibreCorps to set up for managing current / future contracts
Grimoire is a visual dashboard presenting open source community/people metrics. It integrates with existing open source tools and platforms to give an approximation of changes in an open source project. It includes monitoring areas like source code, issue/task management, mailing lists/forums, documentation, continuous integration (CI), and more.
This could be a useful service for LibreCorps to provide. If we set up Grimoire, we could create visual dashboards for each team and/or cohort. The dashboards would include graphs and charts for pieces of what we already evaluate on with our rubrics. We could provide links to the dashboards both for individual teams/cohorts and also the UNICEF fund managers to periodically check-in and quickly see the state of a team's open source engagement.
It also gives us a more helpful and intuitive way to monitor progress by an individual team in small, gradual steps versus a team that is not engaging with our resources at all.
@Nolski and I didn't yet come to an agreement on what this looks like or how it should be presented, so we decided to start with an experiment and see where it goes. Steps to bring a proof-of-concept experiment might look like the following:
cc: @itprofjacobs
As per my arrangements with UNICEF I am to develop a set of resources, tools, and guidance documents to assist machine learning focused cohorts can develop their technology in a way that is open, responsible, and ethical.
A document with my plans in priority order of which tasks I would like to complete.
Teams are hesitant to release their machine learning code open source as they feel it's not as simple as other application code. It would be nice if we had a succinct template to
This stems from my talks with MacroEyes and Har Zindagi. They both are wary about releasing their machine learning models as they might be used improperly or not understood correctly. I think we could really provide a useful resource that hasn't been used beyond more than one project yet.
I was reading a white paper a while back which researched this quite a bit. Perhaps we could also adapt the publiccode.yml document created by the public code network?
I think a great outcome for this would be a README template or at very least a how to use document you can embed in the repository/documentation. Something easily accessible like a markdown file
We want to create a comprehensive guide on developing a FOSS mission statement using the best resources out there on making these decisions in a way that's transparent and inclusive
Mission statement document
>>> Working Draft of Template <<<
Create a draft template to use when delivering Milestone plans for our companies
Our companies need a detailed plan of action when it comes to developing their FOSS strategy. This milestone tracker will have specific points of actions, deliverables, and resources needed to progress from one step to the next.
A finished milestone tracker template
Reach out to others in problem space and collect feedback on our polished ideas / proposal
For the last month, we developed resources around the AI ethics / transparency / freedom idea and worked closely with a few folks to develop our thoughts further. Now, we want to polish our ideas more from the feedback we collected and broaden the feedback loop more widely leading up to the first FOSDEM CFP deadline: Friday, 11 October 2019.
Cross-reference #8.
Integrate our UNICEF Contract Guidance document with the UNICEF cohort document
Document suggestions inline sent to Meghan
Ibrahim has asked for a review on their phase II funding document for the Gates Foundation.
UNICEF's Gates cohorts applying for a second round of funding.
Review should focus on how FOSS consulting can help them achieve this second round of funding.
Written report on document as well as updates to BMGF team milestone plans
Create a shared spreadsheet with URLs for where each team is maintaining their open source project and portfolio
Each UNICEF Innovation Fund (IF) cohort uses different git forges or project-hosting tools for their projects. There is not a single resource to look at to find where each team is doing their open source development.
Our task is to help the UNICEF IF managers monitor progress of each cohort and help make the open source efforts of each cohort easier to measure and track. This also helps us because it gives us a resource to use when we want to check in on a project or if a cohort asks us for help (i.e. we can find out where their open source activity is).
This will be an iterative process and may take a month to make it a comprehensive resource. I suggest this approach:
Migrated from FOSSRIT/tasks#92.
Budget and plan out expenses for @jwflory to attend SustainOSS / CHAOSSCon / FOSDEM 2020
To help get a leg on cheaper airfare prices, I need to prepare a budget of estimated expenses for traveling for the trio of FOSS conferences centered around LibreCorps outreach and networking.
Save money by booking travel ahead of time for FOSDEM 2020
This is a detailing of the relation between issues #86 and #96.
The High Level Rubric needs access to higher detail from the topics listed for each team. This issue explains how this will be done.
We will have an easy-to-access overview of the team's progress as well as an easy way to get more detailed information.
Migrated from FOSSRIT/tasks#97.
Add more issue labels to better include other types of tasks added to this repository
We have a few labels already for different UNICEF cohorts and meetings, but there are some tasks in this repo that do not fit into the existing labels. Adding useful labels for things we could quickly highlight to someone in a passing conversation (e.g. issues about resources, talks we've given, etc.) helps us identify our areas of specialization.
It also makes it easier to write articles about some of our work too. 😅
I haven't thought about this in depth yet. Next step for me is come up with a list of labels, get feedback from others if they are actually useful / serve a purpose, and add them.
UNICEF would prefer our milestone guides specifically mention testing and CI in their milestone plan
Updated milestone guides with testing & CI integrated
Many of our AI focused cohorts are unsure as to how/whether they should release their training datasets along-side their machine learning code.
The UN OCHA has provided great guidance on releasing data, determining sensitivity, etc. The main guidance document can be found here:
https://centre.humdata.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/OCHA-DR-Guidelines-working-draft-032019.pdf
I have contacts at HDX which might serve as a the perfect platform to release their data on.
An initial document or perhaps roadmap template for assessing & releasing a data set online.
Research more about a LibreCorps presence at the ICT4D conference
The ICT4D conference is potentially a great venue for us to do LibreCorps outreach and seek out new partnerships. There are two options for us to participate: by speaking or by exhibiting.
Questions to answer:
Once we discuss the above questions, we can figure out a new blueprint with deadlines, content goals, etc.
Continuing to share and promote the LibreCorps work and mission to seek new partnerships abroad
Create first draft of presentation/session outline for LibreCorps MozFest 2019 session
Earlier this year, we applied to run an interactive session at Mozilla Festival 2019 with our LibreCorps resources and assets. The session was recently accepted. Now, we need to begin planning the session and coming up with an interactive format to include a live audience in using our resources.
For now, a first step is to organize details into a document outline. Then I can collect some feedback from others and begin building out further steps to improve on what we present there at MozFest.
Initial path forward on what we take to MozFest 2019
Set up walk through calls for UNICEF teams based on our new milestone planning documents
Blocked by #2
Follow up calls based on our new milestone planning document
I wanted to start a discussion about where we will be spending out effort when delivering physical/digital resources beyond specific guidance among the companies and organizations we are working with.
I think each resource we propose should hit a few qualities
We want to have a set of ideas for resources that can branch out into their own tickets for us to begin creating.
In order to accurately determine the amount of hours I will need to charge unicef for my contracting, It'd be helpful for me to get a general overview of what discussions we have had with the VR cohort already. What's outstanding.
@itprofjacobs, would this be possible?
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