Rayya El Zein | Saranjeet Kaur Bhogal | Heather Turner | Batool Almarzouq | Nic Weber
\nJackson Maxfield Brown | Stephan Druskat | Gemma Turon | Miquel Duran Frigola
Richard Littauer
\n\nHello and welcome to the Digital Infrastructure Fund Podcast! This is the podcast where we focus on recipients of the Digital Infrastructure Grant Fund which has funded by multiple funders. We don’t just interview current cohorts, but also past cohorts who have gotten funding from this grant pool. Today, I’m very excited with all my guests. We have one repeat guest, Rayya El Zein, who is the Program Manager of the Digital Infrastructure Incubator at Code for Science and Society and all of her relevant cohorts. Rayya is here to explain the digital incubator she’s been building and how it works, introduce five of the teams they’ve been working with this year, and we’ll learn more about the six projects. There are three focus groups, Governance, Community Engagement, and Cultural Infrastructure, and we’ll learn more about what these cohorts have been working on in each of them. Go ahead and download this episode to learn much more!
\n\n[00:01:08] Rayya explains the digital incubator she’s been building and how it works.
\n\n[00:02:57] Our first cohorts, Saranjeet Kaur Bhogal and Heather Turner, explain how they’re building community around the R Development Guide.
\n\n[00:05:47] Batool Almarzouq from the Open Science Community-Saudi Arabia tells us about the Cultural Infrastructure Focus Group, the FAIR Principles, and the right to left languages.
\n\n[00:09:16] The team from Council Data Project (CDP), Nic Weber and Jackson Maxfield Brown, speak about their work in the Civic Tech Space and what the Council Data Project is all about, and Code for America.
\n\n[00:12:57] Stephan Druskat, a team member in the Governance focus group and represents the Citation File Format project explains what they do.
\n\n[00:17:46] The last team is Gemma Turon and Miquel Duran-Frigola, co-founders at the Ersilia Open Source Initiative. They tell us where you can get involved in their projects online, and if you’re a larger organization, where you can contribute funds, developers, time, assets, money, etc.
\n\n[00:23:35] Rayya talks about Solar Protocol, which is the sixth team that is not with us today, and the team that accompanies Ersilia in the Community Engagement Focus Group. We also find out what Rayya is most excited about for this project.
\n\n[00:26:50] Find out about a wrap-up event that will be happening to learn more about all this work with these six projects.
\n\nTitle: Dig. Inf. Incubator
\nGrantees: Rayya El Zein, Danielle Robinson
\nDescription: Supporting projects to implement research-informed best practices at the time of need on governance, sustainability, and inclusion.
Code for Science & Society's cohort program is designed to amplify the impact of research-based recommendations by providing tailored support for open source project leaders as they iterate solutions around a single sociotechnical challenge.
\n\nSpecial Guests: Batool Almarzouq, Gemma Turon, Heather Turner, Jackson Maxfield Brown, Miquel Duran Frigola, Nic Weber, Rayya El Zein, Saranjeet Kaur Bhogal, and Stephan Druskat.
","summary":"Rayya is here to explain the digital incubator she’s been building and how it works, introduce five of the teams they’ve been working with this year, and we’ll learn more about the six projects. ","date_published":"2022-04-18T10:00:00.000-04:00","attachments":[{"url":"https://aphid.fireside.fm/d/1437767933/8d0eed07-ef3c-4ac5-9a36-51a2cc8e9b16/5cc1e87a-961b-4eb9-8095-14edda9e6c60.mp3","mime_type":"audio/mpeg","size_in_bytes":58481086,"duration_in_seconds":1818}]},{"id":"def7420a-23f1-417f-8fc5-c87c418a93b5","title":"Episode 7: Caroline Sinders on the Importance of Diverse Commmunities","url":"https://dif.fireside.fm/7","content_text":"Guest\n\nCaroline Sinders\n\nShow Notes\n\nHello and welcome to the Digital Infrastructure Fund podcast! This is the podcast where we focus on recipients of the Digital Infrastructure Grant Fund which has funded by multiple funders. We don’t just interview current cohorts, but also past cohorts who have gotten funding from this grant pool. \n\nToday, we have Caroline Sinders, the Founder of Convocation Design + Research, as well as a lecturer at the London College of Communication in their Data Visualisation Masters program. She’s an artist and researcher and a lot of work she does is on online gender-based violence, as well as community health and toxicity. Caroline goes in depth about the grant she received funding for: “What can the history of JavaScript teach us about techniques to mitigate harassment (a barrier to diversity and a threat to the sustainability of digital infrastructure projects) in open source communities?” We learn about the JSConfs, Codes of Conduct, and responding to harassment. Also, Caroline explains three types of infrastructure she looks at -- social, technical, and political -- and she tells us about the accountability ladder. Go ahead and download this episode now to find out much more! \n\n[00:01:17] Caroline tells us more about this grant she was given and why this grant sounded like a good idea. \n\n[00:07:58] We hear more about the JSConfs that happen all around the world.\n\n[00:10:16] Find out how Caroline studied the JavaScript communities.\n\n[00:11:49] How does Caroline know if a community is healthy? She mentions BrooklynJS, which has talks that are related to bigger problems in technology.\n\n[00:17:23] Caroline mentions interviewing Kim Crayton and Jen Schiffer for this project, and she held a convening with members from Simply Secure, NYC Resistor, and Babycastles. She also talks about a great Code of Conduct book by Valerie Aurora. \n\n[00:20:28] Richard tells us how he felt so involved going to a BrooklynJS meetups and Caroline goes in depth how this project exists because of BrooklynJS. She also tells us when she moved to San Francisco she went WaffleJS, moved to Berlin and went to BerlinJS, and how it made her feel like a part of the community. \n\n[00:23:03] Richard wonders what Caroline thinks the takeaways are for large corporate events or for corporate open source, and if she feels like it makes it much hard to say implement anti-harassment techniques or to deal with code of conduct violations. Also, if she would change her report towards a more mature ecosystem.\n\n[00:25:45] Find out about the Accountability Ladder by Eva Howe and why it’s so important.\n\n[00:32:10] Richard asks Caroline where she sees her work going to help understand how we can build all of our technical infrastructure better off.\n\n[00:37:01] Find out where you can follow Caroline online. \n\nQuotes\n\n[00:14:52] “One of the ways I can think of measuring toxicity is how amenable is the entire community, as well as the organizers to having [hard] conversations.”\n\n[00:25:18] “It’s important that you have a space if someone feels uncomfortable, that they can go and sit in that’s private, but it’s not accessible to the rest of the conference.”\n\n[00:30:36] “When you design for the most vulnerable, you make the safest kinds of experiences. And it’s really important that we do that!”\n\nLinks\n\n\nFord Foundation\nAlfred P. Sloan Foundation\nOpen Society Foundations\nOmidyar Network\nOpen Collective Foundation\nMozilla Open Source Support Program\nRichard Littauer Twitter\nRichard Littauer Email\nCaroline Sinders Twitter\nCaroline Sinders Website\nLearning from Open Source Communities to Combat Harassment by Caroline Sinders\nBrooklynJS\nSimply Secure\nSchool for Poetic Computation\nHuman Rights Watch\nKim Crayton\nValerie Aurora\nHow to Respond to Code of Conduct Reports by Valerie Aurora and Mary Gardiner\nAnnouncing our Accountability Ladder by Eva Howe (This Dot)\nAccountability Ladder-GitHub\nWaffleJS\nBerlinJS\n#causeascene\n\n\nCredits\n\n\nProduced by Richard Littauer\nEdited by Paul M. Bahr at Peachtree Sound\nShow notes by DeAnn Bahr Peachtree Sound\nSpecial Guest: Caroline Sinders.","content_html":"Caroline Sinders
\n\nHello and welcome to the Digital Infrastructure Fund podcast! This is the podcast where we focus on recipients of the Digital Infrastructure Grant Fund which has funded by multiple funders. We don’t just interview current cohorts, but also past cohorts who have gotten funding from this grant pool.
\n\nToday, we have Caroline Sinders, the Founder of Convocation Design + Research, as well as a lecturer at the London College of Communication in their Data Visualisation Masters program. She’s an artist and researcher and a lot of work she does is on online gender-based violence, as well as community health and toxicity. Caroline goes in depth about the grant she received funding for: “What can the history of JavaScript teach us about techniques to mitigate harassment (a barrier to diversity and a threat to the sustainability of digital infrastructure projects) in open source communities?” We learn about the JSConfs, Codes of Conduct, and responding to harassment. Also, Caroline explains three types of infrastructure she looks at -- social, technical, and political -- and she tells us about the accountability ladder. Go ahead and download this episode now to find out much more!
\n\n[00:01:17] Caroline tells us more about this grant she was given and why this grant sounded like a good idea.
\n\n[00:07:58] We hear more about the JSConfs that happen all around the world.
\n\n[00:10:16] Find out how Caroline studied the JavaScript communities.
\n\n[00:11:49] How does Caroline know if a community is healthy? She mentions BrooklynJS, which has talks that are related to bigger problems in technology.
\n\n[00:17:23] Caroline mentions interviewing Kim Crayton and Jen Schiffer for this project, and she held a convening with members from Simply Secure, NYC Resistor, and Babycastles. She also talks about a great Code of Conduct book by Valerie Aurora.
\n\n[00:20:28] Richard tells us how he felt so involved going to a BrooklynJS meetups and Caroline goes in depth how this project exists because of BrooklynJS. She also tells us when she moved to San Francisco she went WaffleJS, moved to Berlin and went to BerlinJS, and how it made her feel like a part of the community.
\n\n[00:23:03] Richard wonders what Caroline thinks the takeaways are for large corporate events or for corporate open source, and if she feels like it makes it much hard to say implement anti-harassment techniques or to deal with code of conduct violations. Also, if she would change her report towards a more mature ecosystem.
\n\n[00:25:45] Find out about the Accountability Ladder by Eva Howe and why it’s so important.
\n\n[00:32:10] Richard asks Caroline where she sees her work going to help understand how we can build all of our technical infrastructure better off.
\n\n[00:37:01] Find out where you can follow Caroline online.
\n\n[00:14:52] “One of the ways I can think of measuring toxicity is how amenable is the entire community, as well as the organizers to having [hard] conversations.”
\n\n[00:25:18] “It’s important that you have a space if someone feels uncomfortable, that they can go and sit in that’s private, but it’s not accessible to the rest of the conference.”
\n\n[00:30:36] “When you design for the most vulnerable, you make the safest kinds of experiences. And it’s really important that we do that!”
\n\nSpecial Guest: Caroline Sinders.
","summary":"Caroline goes in depth about her grant: “What can the history of JavaScript teach us about techniques to mitigate harassment (a barrier to diversity and a threat to the sustainability of digital infrastructure projects) in open source communities?”","date_published":"2021-11-29T10:00:00.000-05:00","attachments":[{"url":"https://aphid.fireside.fm/d/1437767933/8d0eed07-ef3c-4ac5-9a36-51a2cc8e9b16/def7420a-23f1-417f-8fc5-c87c418a93b5.mp3","mime_type":"audio/mpeg","size_in_bytes":54587659,"duration_in_seconds":2260}]},{"id":"a539e640-8fd7-4907-9314-69959bb032be","title":"Episode 6: Mathieu O’Neil and Stefano Zacchiroli: The coproduction of open source software by volunteers and big tech firms","url":"https://dif.fireside.fm/6","content_text":"Guest\n\nMathieu O’Neil\nStefano Zacchiroli\n\nShow Notes\n\nHello and welcome to the Digital Infrastructure Fund podcast! This is the podcast where we focus on grantees of the Digital Infrastructure Fund that has been funded by multiple funders in order to explore what Digital Infrastructure is. Today, we are extremely privileged to have two guests, Mathieu O’Neil and Stefano Zacchiroli. Mathieu is an Associate Professor of Communication at the News & Media Research Centre at the University of Canberra and Founder of the Journal of Peer Production. Stefano is a Professor at Télécom Paris, part of the Polytechnic Institute of Paris, and co-founder and CTO of Software Heritage. Mathieu and Stefano go in depth about the grant they received which was called, “The coproduction of open source software by volunteers and big tech firms.” Find out how they decided that Debian was going to be a good database to look at, what they found in the report, raising awareness about free-riding, and their ideas on how digital infrastructure could be improved and looked at in future research. Also, we find out what digital infrastructure means to Mathieu and Stefano. Go ahead and download this episode to learn more! \n\n[00:01:10] Mathieu tells us more about the grant they received, what it was for, and how he started working together with Stefano.\n\n[00:04:52] When Mathieu was looking at how open source software was co-produced before this grant, find out how he decided that Debian was going to be a good research database to look at.\n\n[00:09:00] Stefano Founded Software Heritage, he tells us more about it, and how it’s different from GitHub. \n\n[00:09:45] We learn what Mathieu and Stefano found in the report. \n\n[00:16:38] Find out some recommendations that Mathieu and Stefano share from the report that are worth making here and how we can change the environment to make sure that open source is better for everyone.\n\n[00:25:14] Stefano and Mathieu share their ideas for how digital infrastructure could be improved and looked at in future research, as well as digital infrastructure things they didn’t cover in this report that would be interesting to do that don’t involve open source. \n\n[00:28:24] Richard mentions a blog post he read about how burnout is really a corporate issue, and Mathieu mentions how there’s a lot of discussions around gender in the digital infrastructure world.\n\n[00:32:26] Mathieu and Stefano define what digital infrastructure means to them.\n\n[00:33:49] Find out where you can follow Mathieu and Stefano and their work online.\n\nQuotes\n\n[00:17:47] “We said basically, people aren’t aware that the big tech firms or the GIT firm are appropriating free software.” \n\n[00:18:15] “The value of the digital commons is not properly recognized in society.”\n\n[00:19:43] “Well, maybe it’s time that society and regulators and the states start recognizing the value of this digital infrastructure.”\n\n[00:20:19] “Basically to sum it up, we need to increase the social recognition of digital infrastructure, open source, Wikipedia.”\n\n[00:20:53] “We are hoping this kind of report can start a debate and raise awareness of various things, and one is free-riding.”\n\n[00:21:10] “Free-riding is only sustainable up to a point, so when it’s no longer sustainable you need to have some curation.”\n\n[00:22:06] “The role of researchers that are also participating in the sustainability of specific kind of open source software is completely left out of the debate on the sustainability of open source.” \n\n[00:23:36] “It’s also about changing the narrative about where innovation comes from, because the narrative is innovation is always driven by startups in Silicon Valley and private enterprise, but it’s just not true.”\n\nLinks\n\n\nFord Foundation\nAlfred P. Sloan Foundation\nOpen Society Foundations\nOmidyar Network\nOpen Collective Foundation\nMozilla Open Source Support Program\nRichard Littauer Twitter\nRichard Littauer (email)\nMathieu O’Neil Twitter\nMathieu O’Neil-University of Canberra\nThe Handbook of Peer Production by Mathieu O’Neil, Christian Pentzold, Sophie Toupin\nJournal of Peer Production\nStefano Zacchiroli Twitter\nStefano Zacchiroli Website\nStefano Zacchiroli Mastadon\nSoftware Heritage\nThe Burnout Conversation Is A Corporate Tool To Turn Your Suffering Into Marketing by Ed Zitron\nThe coproduction of open source software by volunteers and big tech firms by Mathieu O’Neil, Xiaolan Cai, Laure Muselli, Fred Pailler, Stefano Zacchiroli\nJournal of Peer Production\nThe coproduction of open source software by volunteers and big tech firms-Sustain discourse-Richard Littauer\nDCPC Digital Commons Policy Council\n\n\nCredits\n\n\nProduced by [Richard Littauer] (https://www.burntfen.com/)\nEdited by Paul M. Bahr at [Peachtree Sound] (https://www.peachtreesound.com/)\nShow notes by DeAnn Bahr [Peachtree Sound] (https://www.peachtreesound.com/)\nSpecial Guests: Mathieu O'Neil and Stefano Zacchiroli.","content_html":"Mathieu O’Neil
\nStefano Zacchiroli
Hello and welcome to the Digital Infrastructure Fund podcast! This is the podcast where we focus on grantees of the Digital Infrastructure Fund that has been funded by multiple funders in order to explore what Digital Infrastructure is. Today, we are extremely privileged to have two guests, Mathieu O’Neil and Stefano Zacchiroli. Mathieu is an Associate Professor of Communication at the News & Media Research Centre at the University of Canberra and Founder of the Journal of Peer Production. Stefano is a Professor at Télécom Paris, part of the Polytechnic Institute of Paris, and co-founder and CTO of Software Heritage. Mathieu and Stefano go in depth about the grant they received which was called, “The coproduction of open source software by volunteers and big tech firms.” Find out how they decided that Debian was going to be a good database to look at, what they found in the report, raising awareness about free-riding, and their ideas on how digital infrastructure could be improved and looked at in future research. Also, we find out what digital infrastructure means to Mathieu and Stefano. Go ahead and download this episode to learn more!
\n\n[00:01:10] Mathieu tells us more about the grant they received, what it was for, and how he started working together with Stefano.
\n\n[00:04:52] When Mathieu was looking at how open source software was co-produced before this grant, find out how he decided that Debian was going to be a good research database to look at.
\n\n[00:09:00] Stefano Founded Software Heritage, he tells us more about it, and how it’s different from GitHub.
\n\n[00:09:45] We learn what Mathieu and Stefano found in the report.
\n\n[00:16:38] Find out some recommendations that Mathieu and Stefano share from the report that are worth making here and how we can change the environment to make sure that open source is better for everyone.
\n\n[00:25:14] Stefano and Mathieu share their ideas for how digital infrastructure could be improved and looked at in future research, as well as digital infrastructure things they didn’t cover in this report that would be interesting to do that don’t involve open source.
\n\n[00:28:24] Richard mentions a blog post he read about how burnout is really a corporate issue, and Mathieu mentions how there’s a lot of discussions around gender in the digital infrastructure world.
\n\n[00:32:26] Mathieu and Stefano define what digital infrastructure means to them.
\n\n[00:33:49] Find out where you can follow Mathieu and Stefano and their work online.
\n\n[00:17:47] “We said basically, people aren’t aware that the big tech firms or the GIT firm are appropriating free software.”
\n\n[00:18:15] “The value of the digital commons is not properly recognized in society.”
\n\n[00:19:43] “Well, maybe it’s time that society and regulators and the states start recognizing the value of this digital infrastructure.”
\n\n[00:20:19] “Basically to sum it up, we need to increase the social recognition of digital infrastructure, open source, Wikipedia.”
\n\n[00:20:53] “We are hoping this kind of report can start a debate and raise awareness of various things, and one is free-riding.”
\n\n[00:21:10] “Free-riding is only sustainable up to a point, so when it’s no longer sustainable you need to have some curation.”
\n\n[00:22:06] “The role of researchers that are also participating in the sustainability of specific kind of open source software is completely left out of the debate on the sustainability of open source.”
\n\n[00:23:36] “It’s also about changing the narrative about where innovation comes from, because the narrative is innovation is always driven by startups in Silicon Valley and private enterprise, but it’s just not true.”
\n\nSpecial Guests: Mathieu O'Neil and Stefano Zacchiroli.
","summary":"Mathieu and Stefano go in depth about the grant they received on understanding the open source ecosystem, and how volunteers and big tech have a difficult relationship with open source.","date_published":"2021-11-22T10:00:00.000-05:00","attachments":[{"url":"https://aphid.fireside.fm/d/1437767933/8d0eed07-ef3c-4ac5-9a36-51a2cc8e9b16/a539e640-8fd7-4907-9314-69959bb032be.mp3","mime_type":"audio/mpeg","size_in_bytes":69380092,"duration_in_seconds":2159}]},{"id":"fdad96cc-aae5-42e3-8f5c-bbd9b26ff3e9","title":"Episode 5: Jana Gallus and the Power of Public: Recognition and Reputation as Drivers of Open Source Success.","url":"https://dif.fireside.fm/5","content_text":"Guest\n\nJana Gallus\n\nShow Notes\n\nHello and welcome to the Digital Infrastructure Fund podcast! This is the podcast where we are discussing what is digital infrastructure and we explicitly focus on people who have been given grants from the Digital Infrastructure Fund. This fund is dedicated towards helping researchers understand what is digital infrastructure is, how can we understand it more, and how can we empower people to support it for the long term? I am very excited to have as my guest today, Jana Gallus, who is an Associate Professor, with tenure, at UCLA. She was the recipient of a grant called, The Power of Public: Recognition and Reputation as Drivers of Open Source Success. Our focus today is to talk about what Jana does outside of this grant, since Jana has a long and illustrious research career that is focused on many things, all of them figuring out what does money mean, what does social recognition mean, and how do you build open source projects effectively in a way that helps the community and project thrive together. We also learn more about some research papers and a book Jana co-wrote called, Honours versus Money: The Economics of Awards. Go ahead and download this episode now to find out more! \n\n[00:02:07] Jana tells us how she got to the point where she submitted a grant proposal to Ford and Sloan and the Digital Infrastructure Fund. \n\n[00:04:44] Jana goes more in depth about what she means by superficial recognition. \n\n[00:08:06] Richard wonders if there are other kinds of awards and recognitions that Jana has looked at. She talks about her paper they are currently revising because they gathered new data on a field experiment they did within NASA and she mentions Eric von Hippel’s work on democratizing innovation. \n\n[00:13:22] Richard brings up a book Jana co-wrote with Bruno Frey called, _Honours versus Money: The Economics of Awards, _which leads him into talking about societies and his opposition to badges and Jana shares why she is also sceptical when it comes to badges.\n\n[00:19:38] Since Jana has done self-stereotyping work and how people see themselves influences their behavior, particularly in open source projects or large citizen science projects, she goes in depth about that in talking to the gender gap\n\n[00:26:35] We find out from Jana what it is that makes digital infrastructure itself an interesting cause to research about. \n\n[00:28:27] Learn what Jana is working on now and hear about a paper she wrote with other people that just got accepted at Psychological Review called, “Relational Incentives Theory.”\n\n[00:34:17] Janna tells us what digital infrastructure means to her. \n\nQuotes\n\n[00:04:18] “[A] purely symbolic recognition increases the retention rate significantly by 20% in the month after somebody got recognized [for open source projects]. And this effect moreover holds for an entire year after the initial award restore.”\n\n[00:07:16] “Everybody knows what a dollar is but with awards, really the devil, or I should say the angel, is in the details, which makes this such a rich field to study.”\n\n[00:07:25] “There are so many different dimensions of social recognition that we still need to further unpack.”\n\n[00:23:55] “Recognition writ large motivates and makes recipients more confident to speak up... The one form that closes the gender gap is public recognition.”\n\nLinks\n\n\nFord Foundation\nAlfred P. Sloan Foundation\nOpen Society Foundations\nOmidyar Network\nOpen Collective Foundation\nMozilla Open Source Support Program\nRichard Littauer Twitter\nRichard Littauer (email)\nJana Gallus Twitter\nJana Gallus Website\nDemocratizing Innovation By Eric von Hippel\nHonours versus Money by Bruno S. Frey and Jana Gallus\nAwards: A strategic management perspective by Jana Gallus and Bruno S. Frey-Wiley Online Library\nGoverning the Commons: The Evolution of Institutions for Collective Action by Elinor Ostrom\nRelational Incentives Theory by Jana Gallus, Joseph Reiff, Emir Kamenica, and Alan Page Fiske-Psychological Review\nname-your-contributors-GitHib\nSpecial Guest: Jana Gallus.","content_html":"Jana Gallus
\n\nHello and welcome to the Digital Infrastructure Fund podcast! This is the podcast where we are discussing what is digital infrastructure and we explicitly focus on people who have been given grants from the Digital Infrastructure Fund. This fund is dedicated towards helping researchers understand what is digital infrastructure is, how can we understand it more, and how can we empower people to support it for the long term? I am very excited to have as my guest today, Jana Gallus, who is an Associate Professor, with tenure, at UCLA. She was the recipient of a grant called, The Power of Public: Recognition and Reputation as Drivers of Open Source Success. Our focus today is to talk about what Jana does outside of this grant, since Jana has a long and illustrious research career that is focused on many things, all of them figuring out what does money mean, what does social recognition mean, and how do you build open source projects effectively in a way that helps the community and project thrive together. We also learn more about some research papers and a book Jana co-wrote called, Honours versus Money: The Economics of Awards. Go ahead and download this episode now to find out more!
\n\n[00:02:07] Jana tells us how she got to the point where she submitted a grant proposal to Ford and Sloan and the Digital Infrastructure Fund.
\n\n[00:04:44] Jana goes more in depth about what she means by superficial recognition.
\n\n[00:08:06] Richard wonders if there are other kinds of awards and recognitions that Jana has looked at. She talks about her paper they are currently revising because they gathered new data on a field experiment they did within NASA and she mentions Eric von Hippel’s work on democratizing innovation.
\n\n[00:13:22] Richard brings up a book Jana co-wrote with Bruno Frey called, _Honours versus Money: The Economics of Awards, _which leads him into talking about societies and his opposition to badges and Jana shares why she is also sceptical when it comes to badges.
\n\n[00:19:38] Since Jana has done self-stereotyping work and how people see themselves influences their behavior, particularly in open source projects or large citizen science projects, she goes in depth about that in talking to the gender gap
\n\n[00:26:35] We find out from Jana what it is that makes digital infrastructure itself an interesting cause to research about.
\n\n[00:28:27] Learn what Jana is working on now and hear about a paper she wrote with other people that just got accepted at Psychological Review called, “Relational Incentives Theory.”
\n\n[00:34:17] Janna tells us what digital infrastructure means to her.
\n\n[00:04:18] “[A] purely symbolic recognition increases the retention rate significantly by 20% in the month after somebody got recognized [for open source projects]. And this effect moreover holds for an entire year after the initial award restore.”
\n\n[00:07:16] “Everybody knows what a dollar is but with awards, really the devil, or I should say the angel, is in the details, which makes this such a rich field to study.”
\n\n[00:07:25] “There are so many different dimensions of social recognition that we still need to further unpack.”
\n\n[00:23:55] “Recognition writ large motivates and makes recipients more confident to speak up... The one form that closes the gender gap is public recognition.”
\n\nSpecial Guest: Jana Gallus.
","summary":"Jana Gallus joins us to talk about her work on recognition and reputation as drivers of open source success, and work similar to what she did with her DIF grant.","date_published":"2021-11-15T10:00:00.000-05:00","attachments":[{"url":"https://aphid.fireside.fm/d/1437767933/8d0eed07-ef3c-4ac5-9a36-51a2cc8e9b16/fdad96cc-aae5-42e3-8f5c-bbd9b26ff3e9.mp3","mime_type":"audio/mpeg","size_in_bytes":69718658,"duration_in_seconds":2178}]},{"id":"2cb132a2-4248-496d-960f-db7e59e80d04","title":"Episode 4: Elisa Lindinger on Implicit Development Environments (IDE)","url":"https://dif.fireside.fm/4","content_text":"Guest\n\nElisa Lindinger\n\nShow Notes\n\nHello and welcome to the Digital Infrastructure Fund podcast! This is the podcast where we are discussing what is digital infrastructure and we explicitly focus on people who have been given grants from the Digital Infrastructure Fund. Today, I have the privilege of having as my guest, Elisa Lindinger, who is a Co-founder of SUPERRR. On this episode, we are going to learn more about SUPERRR Lab and what it focuses on, and all about Elisa’s grant title which is Implicit Development Environments (IDE). She goes in depth about the people they interviewed, what they found out from the conversations they had with people, the four different roles they identified, advice they gave funders when looking at these projects, and how the work she did applies to digital infrastructure. Elisa shares some great resources that are worth reading and are related to the work she’s done, and we find out what digital infrastructure means to her. Go ahead and download this episode now to find out more!\n\n[00:01:21] Elisa fills us in on who she is, how she got to where she is now, what SUPERRR is, and what it’s focused on. \n\n[00:03:50] Elisa describes what the main thrust of her grant was called, Implicit Development Environments and if it worked up to expectations.\n\n[00:05:35] We find out how many people they interviewed and more about the interview process. She also tells us about the main findings they found based on the conversations they had. \n\n[00:08:39] Elisa explains four different roles they identified to help developers know where they fit.\n\n[00:10:13] Richard brings up funders and wonders if Elisa had any advice for funders when looking at these projects, trying to figure out who should I fund, how should I work, how should I ask them to set up their developmental processes, how should I enforce governance at these projects.\n\n[00:12:03] Thinking about this work that Elisa talks about and how it applies to developers, communities, and projects, Richard asks how this applies to digital infrastructure in general, and Elisa highlights one of the key insights. \n\n[00:14:00] Elisa explains how human centered design or approaches work. She also tells us where this work went, what happened after she did the interviews and wrote up the nice PDF, and where it is now. \n\n[00:16:37] Richard wonders when Elisa writes the blog posts and she’s working public and going through the whole project, what surprised her the most or what stories did she come across that she didn’t expect to come across, like it didn’t fit in the report but were there anyway. \n\n[00:18:12] Elisa speaks about political funding and which focus points are highlighted through funding. \n\n[00:20:35] Since making this grant, Elisa shares a few great resources that’s related to this sort of work that are worth reading.\n\n[00:22:42] Elisa tells us what digital infrastructure means to her. \n\nGrant Details\n\nTitle: Implicit Development Environments (IDE)\nGrantees: Elisa Lindinger, Julia Kloiber, Katharina Meyer\nCollaborators: Ame Elliott, Eileen Wagner (Simply Secure)\nDescription: For the Internet to provide the public space necessary for an equal digital society, it needs to be more than just roads and bridges. For this to happen, open digital infrastructure and the people who build and maintain this software must become more visible, more understood, and more appreciated.\n\nQuotes\n\n[00:07:17] “I’d say that the first insight that came up was that there are no easy answers.”\n\n[00:12:25] “I believe that even in open source funding, funders tend to ask questions such as scale, about innovation, like are their similar projects that have already been worked on that are already out there and why do we need another alternative?”\n\n[00:19:30] “So, because infrastructure is interconnected, right? You don’t just take on one pipe and repair it and everything is shiny again. You have to look at the entire system.”\n\n[00:19:38] “And this is the same, even more so, I believe with digital infrastructure.” \n\nLinks\n\n\nFord Foundation\nAlfred P. Sloan Foundation\nOpen Society Foundations\nOmidyar Network\nOpen Collective Foundation\nMozilla Open Source Support Program\nRichard Littauer Twitter\nRichard Littauer (email)\nElisa Lindinger Twitter\nElisa Lindinger Website\nSUPERRR\nRoadwork ahead: Evaluating the needs of FOSS communities working on digital infrastructure in the public interest\nImplicit Development Environments (IDE)\nRoads and Bridges: The Unseen Labor Behind Our Digital Infrastructure by Nadia Eghbal\n‘This is not how we imagined it’: Technological affordances, economic drivers and the Internet architecture imaginary by Niels ten Oever\ngit commit murder by Michael Warren Lucas\nSpecial Guest: Elisa Lindinger.","content_html":"Elisa Lindinger
\n\nHello and welcome to the Digital Infrastructure Fund podcast! This is the podcast where we are discussing what is digital infrastructure and we explicitly focus on people who have been given grants from the Digital Infrastructure Fund. Today, I have the privilege of having as my guest, Elisa Lindinger, who is a Co-founder of SUPERRR. On this episode, we are going to learn more about SUPERRR Lab and what it focuses on, and all about Elisa’s grant title which is Implicit Development Environments (IDE). She goes in depth about the people they interviewed, what they found out from the conversations they had with people, the four different roles they identified, advice they gave funders when looking at these projects, and how the work she did applies to digital infrastructure. Elisa shares some great resources that are worth reading and are related to the work she’s done, and we find out what digital infrastructure means to her. Go ahead and download this episode now to find out more!
\n\n[00:01:21] Elisa fills us in on who she is, how she got to where she is now, what SUPERRR is, and what it’s focused on.
\n\n[00:03:50] Elisa describes what the main thrust of her grant was called, Implicit Development Environments and if it worked up to expectations.
\n\n[00:05:35] We find out how many people they interviewed and more about the interview process. She also tells us about the main findings they found based on the conversations they had.
\n\n[00:08:39] Elisa explains four different roles they identified to help developers know where they fit.
\n\n[00:10:13] Richard brings up funders and wonders if Elisa had any advice for funders when looking at these projects, trying to figure out who should I fund, how should I work, how should I ask them to set up their developmental processes, how should I enforce governance at these projects.
\n\n[00:12:03] Thinking about this work that Elisa talks about and how it applies to developers, communities, and projects, Richard asks how this applies to digital infrastructure in general, and Elisa highlights one of the key insights.
\n\n[00:14:00] Elisa explains how human centered design or approaches work. She also tells us where this work went, what happened after she did the interviews and wrote up the nice PDF, and where it is now.
\n\n[00:16:37] Richard wonders when Elisa writes the blog posts and she’s working public and going through the whole project, what surprised her the most or what stories did she come across that she didn’t expect to come across, like it didn’t fit in the report but were there anyway.
\n\n[00:18:12] Elisa speaks about political funding and which focus points are highlighted through funding.
\n\n[00:20:35] Since making this grant, Elisa shares a few great resources that’s related to this sort of work that are worth reading.
\n\n[00:22:42] Elisa tells us what digital infrastructure means to her.
\n\nTitle: Implicit Development Environments (IDE)
\nGrantees: Elisa Lindinger, Julia Kloiber, Katharina Meyer
\nCollaborators: Ame Elliott, Eileen Wagner (Simply Secure)
\nDescription: For the Internet to provide the public space necessary for an equal digital society, it needs to be more than just roads and bridges. For this to happen, open digital infrastructure and the people who build and maintain this software must become more visible, more understood, and more appreciated.
[00:07:17] “I’d say that the first insight that came up was that there are no easy answers.”
\n\n[00:12:25] “I believe that even in open source funding, funders tend to ask questions such as scale, about innovation, like are their similar projects that have already been worked on that are already out there and why do we need another alternative?”
\n\n[00:19:30] “So, because infrastructure is interconnected, right? You don’t just take on one pipe and repair it and everything is shiny again. You have to look at the entire system.”
\n\n[00:19:38] “And this is the same, even more so, I believe with digital infrastructure.”
\n\nSpecial Guest: Elisa Lindinger.
","summary":"Elisa Lindinger shares her grant on IDEs - Implicit Development Environments - and her current work at SUPERRR Lab.","date_published":"2021-11-09T10:00:00.000-05:00","attachments":[{"url":"https://aphid.fireside.fm/d/1437767933/8d0eed07-ef3c-4ac5-9a36-51a2cc8e9b16/2cb132a2-4248-496d-960f-db7e59e80d04.mp3","mime_type":"audio/mpeg","size_in_bytes":46736121,"duration_in_seconds":1460}]},{"id":"7b6f5804-dcd3-4295-95ca-6caafa3d6b58","title":"Episode 3: Argyri Panezi and Jessica Feldman: What makes an open source project “critical digital infrastructure?”","url":"https://dif.fireside.fm/3","content_text":"Guest\n\nArgyri Panezi and Jessica Feldman\n\nShow Notes\n\nHello and welcome to the Digital Infrastructure Fund podcast! This is the podcast where we focus on recipients of the Digital Infrastructure Grant Fund which has funded by multiple funders. We don’t just interview current cohorts, but also past cohorts who have gotten funding from this grant pool. \n\nToday I have joining me, Argyri Panezi, the Assistant Professor of Law and Technology at IE Law School, and Jessica Feldman, an Assistant Professor in the Department of Communication Media and Culture at the American University of Paris, the Director of the Civic Media Lab, and an Affiliated Researcher at Stanford along with Argyri. The grant they worked on was called, “What makes an open source project critical digital infrastructure?” and they will go in depth about this today. We learn more about the Stanford Digital Civil Society Lab that they work with, the research and interview process they went through, and how they found digital infrastructure in this research. Find out what Argyri and Jessica working on currently and what digital infrastructure means to them.\n\n[00:01:20] Jessica and Argyri explain “What makes an open source project critical digital infrastructure?”\n\n[00:04:27] Find out more about the Stanford Digital Civil Society Lab that Jessica and Argyri work with.\n\n[00:06:03] We learn more about when the grant was funded, what the work looked like, and the research and interview process. Jessica tells us about one of the fun and interesting groups she worked with called “Battle Mesh.”\n\n[00:10:28] Earlier, Jessica mentioned “moral implications for how things are built.” What did she mean by that? Also, she explains what she means by “Civil Society.”\n\n[00:13:02] Argyri talks about the report coming out soon and what they found. She also explains why they showed that the state doesn’t value participation.\n\n[00:16:05] Richard explains the “Adopt-A Highway” Program and he wonders if Argyri and Jessica drew a lot of parallels to the Digital Commons. Jessica touches on Elinor Ostrom’s work on “Governing the Commons.”\n\n[00:20:20] When they did this research about critical digital infrastructure, Richard wonders if they talked about the corporate influence on open source ideology and how that influences civil society open source projects.\n\n[00:23:41] Argyri shares how she found digital infrastructure in this research, and she tells us what else they looked at besides civil society and government.\n\n[00:26:05] We learn what Argyri and Jessica are each working on currently\n\n[00:30:18] Argyri and Jessica tell us what digital infrastructure means to them.\n\n[00:34:03] Find out where you can follow Argyri and Jessica and their work online.\n\nGrant Details\n\nTitle: What makes an open source project “critical digital infrastructure?”\nGrantees: Lucy Bernholz, Jessica Feldman, Argyri Panezi\nDescription: There is currently no clear policy argument to help define which open source projects can be considered critical digital infrastructure. The legal system has developed a framework for regulating non-digital utilities such as roads and bridges, and has only started to navigate a similar approach to designating and regulating critical digital infrastructure. The regulation of non-digital public goods can be used as an analogy to help define and provide a policy framework for critical digital infrastructure. This project will bridge a quest for legal definition of “critical digital infrastructure” with an investigation of the values, methods, and funding relationships of the community groups that build open source software projects.\n\nQuotes\n\n[00:13:29] “There’s a serious misalignment between the values and what the community considers as critical and what the nation, state, and also market stakeholders, what is not civil society thinks of us critical.”\n\n[00:22:13] \"[On the bus factor:] the problem is not buses, it’s bosses.”\n\n[00:24:57] “The question is: what is infrastructure and according to whom? What does infrastructure mean to whom?”\n\nLinks\n\n\nFord Foundation\nAlfred P. Sloan Foundation\nOpen Society Foundations\nOmidyar Network\nOpen Collective Foundation\nMozilla Open Source Support Program\nArgyri Panezi-Stanford Center on Philanthropy and Civil Society\nJessica Feldman-Stanford Center on Philanthropy and Civil Society\nJessica Feldman-American University of Paris\nJessica Feldman Website\nThe Civic Media Lab\nStanford Center on Philanthropy and Civil Society\nStanford Center on Philanthropy and Civil Society-Lucy Bernholz, Director\nBattleMesh\nDigital Civil Society Lab\nGoverning the Commons: The Evolution of Institutions for Collective Action by Elinor Ostrom\nNadia Eghbal Website\n\n\nCredits\n\n\nProduced by Richard Littauer\nEdited by Paul M. Bahr at Peachtree Sound\nShow notes by DeAnn Bahr at Peachtree Sound\nSpecial Guests: Argyri Panezi and Jessica Feldman.","content_html":"Argyri Panezi and Jessica Feldman
\n\nHello and welcome to the Digital Infrastructure Fund podcast! This is the podcast where we focus on recipients of the Digital Infrastructure Grant Fund which has funded by multiple funders. We don’t just interview current cohorts, but also past cohorts who have gotten funding from this grant pool.
\n\nToday I have joining me, Argyri Panezi, the Assistant Professor of Law and Technology at IE Law School, and Jessica Feldman, an Assistant Professor in the Department of Communication Media and Culture at the American University of Paris, the Director of the Civic Media Lab, and an Affiliated Researcher at Stanford along with Argyri. The grant they worked on was called, “What makes an open source project critical digital infrastructure?” and they will go in depth about this today. We learn more about the Stanford Digital Civil Society Lab that they work with, the research and interview process they went through, and how they found digital infrastructure in this research. Find out what Argyri and Jessica working on currently and what digital infrastructure means to them.
\n\n[00:01:20] Jessica and Argyri explain “What makes an open source project critical digital infrastructure?”
\n\n[00:04:27] Find out more about the Stanford Digital Civil Society Lab that Jessica and Argyri work with.
\n\n[00:06:03] We learn more about when the grant was funded, what the work looked like, and the research and interview process. Jessica tells us about one of the fun and interesting groups she worked with called “Battle Mesh.”
\n\n[00:10:28] Earlier, Jessica mentioned “moral implications for how things are built.” What did she mean by that? Also, she explains what she means by “Civil Society.”
\n\n[00:13:02] Argyri talks about the report coming out soon and what they found. She also explains why they showed that the state doesn’t value participation.
\n\n[00:16:05] Richard explains the “Adopt-A Highway” Program and he wonders if Argyri and Jessica drew a lot of parallels to the Digital Commons. Jessica touches on Elinor Ostrom’s work on “Governing the Commons.”
\n\n[00:20:20] When they did this research about critical digital infrastructure, Richard wonders if they talked about the corporate influence on open source ideology and how that influences civil society open source projects.
\n\n[00:23:41] Argyri shares how she found digital infrastructure in this research, and she tells us what else they looked at besides civil society and government.
\n\n[00:26:05] We learn what Argyri and Jessica are each working on currently
\n\n[00:30:18] Argyri and Jessica tell us what digital infrastructure means to them.
\n\n[00:34:03] Find out where you can follow Argyri and Jessica and their work online.
\n\nTitle: What makes an open source project “critical digital infrastructure?”
\nGrantees: Lucy Bernholz, Jessica Feldman, Argyri Panezi
\nDescription: There is currently no clear policy argument to help define which open source projects can be considered critical digital infrastructure. The legal system has developed a framework for regulating non-digital utilities such as roads and bridges, and has only started to navigate a similar approach to designating and regulating critical digital infrastructure. The regulation of non-digital public goods can be used as an analogy to help define and provide a policy framework for critical digital infrastructure. This project will bridge a quest for legal definition of “critical digital infrastructure” with an investigation of the values, methods, and funding relationships of the community groups that build open source software projects.
[00:13:29] “There’s a serious misalignment between the values and what the community considers as critical and what the nation, state, and also market stakeholders, what is not civil society thinks of us critical.”
\n\n[00:22:13] "[On the bus factor:] the problem is not buses, it’s bosses.”
\n\n[00:24:57] “The question is: what is infrastructure and according to whom? What does infrastructure mean to whom?”
\n\nSpecial Guests: Argyri Panezi and Jessica Feldman.
","summary":"Argyri Panezi and Jessica Feldman join us to talk about their grant (with Lucy Bernholz), titled: What makes an open source project “critical digital infrastructure?” ","date_published":"2021-10-25T13:00:00.000-04:00","attachments":[{"url":"https://aphid.fireside.fm/d/1437767933/8d0eed07-ef3c-4ac5-9a36-51a2cc8e9b16/7b6f5804-dcd3-4295-95ca-6caafa3d6b58.mp3","mime_type":"audio/mpeg","size_in_bytes":67449150,"duration_in_seconds":2107}]},{"id":"ca607071-d1ff-4f5a-ae1f-e0dcdefe21f3","title":"Episode 2: Kaylea Champion and Mako Hill on Detecting Risk in Digital Infrastructure","url":"https://dif.fireside.fm/2","content_text":"Guest\n\nKaylea Champion and Benjamin Mako Hill\n\nShow Notes\n\nToday, we have two guests, Kaylea Champion and Mako Hill, both from the University of Washington in Seattle. Kaylea is a PhD candidate in the Department of Communication and Mako is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Communication. The grant that Kaylea and Mako were working on is called “Detecting Risk in Digital Infrastructure” and they go in depth and explain what it’s all about. We also hear more about the tertiary review they wrote and another paper that is in peer review, where they are expecting to take it and where they are working to see how they can grow this research into something larger. Also, we learn about Community Data Science Collective, which is their research group, and listen to how Kaylea and Mako define what Digital Infrastructure means to them. Go ahead and download this episode now to learn more!\n\n[00:01:37] Kaylea tells us more about the grant called “Detecting Risk in Digital Infrastructure” and how the project started, and she mentions Nadia Eghbal’s work on Roads and Bridges and the issue with Heartbleed.\n\n[00:04:39] Richard asks Kaylea how she started figuring out what quality means when applied directly to code, and Mako shares more about the literature review they did on quality of research and quality measurement research in software engineering.\n\n[00:11:13] Kaylea fills us in on what she found out in terms of under production of code.\n\n[00:13:16] Kaylea and Mako explain what happens with the packages that don’t have high bug reports or don’t have low bug reports and if they are accounted for.\n\n[00:18:18] We learn more about packages as a whole in software development in Debian and Linux, and more about the methods in the paper.\n\n[00:23:04] Mako and Kaylea had this grant form Sloan and Ford, part of the Digital Infrastructure Fund, so we find out where they took it afterwards. They have a tertiary article and another paper in peer review, where are they expecting to take it and where are they working now to see how they can grow this research into something larger. Mako tells us a little bit about their research called, Community Data Science Group, that you can check out.\n\n[00:27:47] Kaylea and Mako define what Digital Infrastructure means to them.\n\n[00:30:23] Find out where you can follow Kaylea and Mako online.\n\nGrant Details\n\nGrant title: Detecting Risk in Digital Infrastructure\nGrantees: Benjamin Mako Hill, Kaylea Champion\nDescription: Widely-used components of digital infrastructure are relatively neglected. We developed a new technique for identifying ‘underproduction’ -- the mismatch that can emerge between what consumers use and what producers create. We propose that developer communities use data on software importance and quality to help prioritize their efforts. Complicating this picture is our finding that many approaches to measuring software quality have a limited and contradictory validation record.\n\nQuotes\n\n[00:27:50] “Because although Digital Infrastructure artifacts are what I study, Digital Infrastructure is really about people, and it’s about communities, it’s about how people are working together to build amazing things, it’s about the person who’s pager goes off in the middle of the night to fix what’s gone wrong, it’s about the person banging away at their keyboard to try to make things better for the rest of us. It’s really about how people collaborate to find problems, to find bugs, and intervene to save us in ways that we would never even know in the dark of night or in the early light of morning. All the people who kind of work together to produce this amazing environment that we all have to communicate, to conduct education, to record this podcast. Everything we rely on now I think with modern technology is so dependent on the actions of communities and volunteers and individuals and the collaborations that they conduct.”\n\nLinks\n\n\nFord Foundation\nAlfred P. Sloan Foundation\nOpen Society Foundations\nOmidyar Network\nOpen Collective Foundation\nMozilla Open Source Support Program\nRichard Littauer Twitter\nRichard Littauer (email)\nKaylea Champion Twitter\nBenjamin Mako Hill Twitter\nCommunity Data Science Collective Twitter\nCommunity Data Science Collective\nCommunity Data Science in the Fediverse\nRoads Construction and Bridge Design\nThe Heartbleed Bug\nQualities of Quality: A Tertiary Review of Software Quality Measurement Research by Kaylea Champion, Sejal Khatri, and Benjamin Mako Hill \nUnderproduction: An Approach for Measuring Risk in Open Source Software by Kaylea Champion and Benjamin Mako Hill (IEEE)\nDebConf 2021-Detecting At-Risk Projects in Debian with Kaylea Champion (video)\n\n\nCredits\n\n\nProduced by Richard Littauer\nEdited by Paul M. Bahr at Peachtree Sound\nShow notes by DeAnn Bahr at Peachtree Sound\nSpecial Guests: Benjamin Mako Hill and Kaylea Champion.","content_html":"Kaylea Champion and Benjamin Mako Hill
\n\nToday, we have two guests, Kaylea Champion and Mako Hill, both from the University of Washington in Seattle. Kaylea is a PhD candidate in the Department of Communication and Mako is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Communication. The grant that Kaylea and Mako were working on is called “Detecting Risk in Digital Infrastructure” and they go in depth and explain what it’s all about. We also hear more about the tertiary review they wrote and another paper that is in peer review, where they are expecting to take it and where they are working to see how they can grow this research into something larger. Also, we learn about Community Data Science Collective, which is their research group, and listen to how Kaylea and Mako define what Digital Infrastructure means to them. Go ahead and download this episode now to learn more!
\n\n[00:01:37] Kaylea tells us more about the grant called “Detecting Risk in Digital Infrastructure” and how the project started, and she mentions Nadia Eghbal’s work on Roads and Bridges and the issue with Heartbleed.
\n\n[00:04:39] Richard asks Kaylea how she started figuring out what quality means when applied directly to code, and Mako shares more about the literature review they did on quality of research and quality measurement research in software engineering.
\n\n[00:11:13] Kaylea fills us in on what she found out in terms of under production of code.
\n\n[00:13:16] Kaylea and Mako explain what happens with the packages that don’t have high bug reports or don’t have low bug reports and if they are accounted for.
\n\n[00:18:18] We learn more about packages as a whole in software development in Debian and Linux, and more about the methods in the paper.
\n\n[00:23:04] Mako and Kaylea had this grant form Sloan and Ford, part of the Digital Infrastructure Fund, so we find out where they took it afterwards. They have a tertiary article and another paper in peer review, where are they expecting to take it and where are they working now to see how they can grow this research into something larger. Mako tells us a little bit about their research called, Community Data Science Group, that you can check out.
\n\n[00:27:47] Kaylea and Mako define what Digital Infrastructure means to them.
\n\n[00:30:23] Find out where you can follow Kaylea and Mako online.
\n\nGrant title: Detecting Risk in Digital Infrastructure
\nGrantees: Benjamin Mako Hill, Kaylea Champion
\nDescription: Widely-used components of digital infrastructure are relatively neglected. We developed a new technique for identifying ‘underproduction’ -- the mismatch that can emerge between what consumers use and what producers create. We propose that developer communities use data on software importance and quality to help prioritize their efforts. Complicating this picture is our finding that many approaches to measuring software quality have a limited and contradictory validation record.
[00:27:50] “Because although Digital Infrastructure artifacts are what I study, Digital Infrastructure is really about people, and it’s about communities, it’s about how people are working together to build amazing things, it’s about the person who’s pager goes off in the middle of the night to fix what’s gone wrong, it’s about the person banging away at their keyboard to try to make things better for the rest of us. It’s really about how people collaborate to find problems, to find bugs, and intervene to save us in ways that we would never even know in the dark of night or in the early light of morning. All the people who kind of work together to produce this amazing environment that we all have to communicate, to conduct education, to record this podcast. Everything we rely on now I think with modern technology is so dependent on the actions of communities and volunteers and individuals and the collaborations that they conduct.”
\n\nSpecial Guests: Benjamin Mako Hill and Kaylea Champion.
","summary":"Kaylea Champion and Benjamin Mako Hill from the University of Washington in Seattle join us to talk about detecting risk, under- and over-production in open source. ","date_published":"2021-10-18T10:00:00.000-04:00","attachments":[{"url":"https://aphid.fireside.fm/d/1437767933/8d0eed07-ef3c-4ac5-9a36-51a2cc8e9b16/ca607071-d1ff-4f5a-ae1f-e0dcdefe21f3.mp3","mime_type":"audio/mpeg","size_in_bytes":60099476,"duration_in_seconds":1878}]},{"id":"ce9a2ed0-6f85-403f-886b-e618cf8a3a0e","title":"Episode 1: The Digital Infrastructure Incubator, with Danielle Robinson and Rayya El Zein","url":"https://dif.fireside.fm/1","content_text":"Guests\n\nDanielle Robinson and Rayya El Zein, Code For Science & Society\n\nShow Notes\n\nWelcome to the first episode of the Digital Infrastructure podcast!\n\nThis is a new podcast focused on grantees from the Digital Infrastructure Fund. This fund, funded by the Ford Foundation, the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, Open Society Foundations, the Omidyar Network, and the Mozilla Open Source Support Program in collaboration with the Open Collective Foundation, consists of around $1.3 million worth of grants given out to thirteen research projects, which are advancing our understanding of critical digital infrastructure across the globe.\n\nFor those of you who are new to Digital Infrastructure, the very idea is that all our society at this point is built up on open source, on code, on projects that like roads, bridges, and electric grids, and that these need to be maintained. Since digital infrastructure is a new phenomenon in human society we don’t really understand how to fund it properly. The grantees are researching ways we can define digital infrastructure and how can we better support the people who maintain it.\n\nToday, we have two grantees from Code for Science and Society, who will talk about their grant: the Digital Infrastructure Incubator. Danielle Robinson, the Executive Director of Code for Science and Society (CSS), and Rayya El Zein, the Program Manager for the Digital Infrastructure Incubator, are joining us today. We hope you enjoy this podcast and learn something new about Digital Infrastructure.\n\n[00:02:38] Danielle tells us how she became the Executive Director of Code for Science and Society.\n\n[00:06:27] Rayya tells us about her background and how she got involved as Program Manager for the Digital Infrastructure Incubator at CSS.\n\n[00:09:00] Since CSS has been around for a few years now, Richard asks Danielle and Rayya, if someone was a researcher, why would they choose to have their project incubated there as opposed to somewhere else. \n\n[00:16:22] Danielle explains more about the way they wrote the grant and Rayya tells us more about launching some web presence for the incubator and a call for expressions of interest that will be coming soon to fill the five positions that they have available. Also, Rayya mentions Simply Secure doing an implementation process in a similar fashion.\n\n[00:19:46] Find out where you can follow along with the Digital Infrastructure Incubator at CSS, and where you can apply.\n\n[00:21:34] Rayya and Danielle share what Digital Infrastructure means to them.\n\n[00:27:14] If you have any questions, Richard tells us where you can contact him and find out where you can follow Danielle and Rayya personally on the internet.\n\nLinks\n\n\nFord Foundation\nAlfred P. Sloan Foundation\nOpen Society Foundations\nOmidyar Network\nOpen Collective Foundation\nMozilla Open Source Support Program\nRichard Littauer Twitter\nRichard Littauer (email)\nDanielle Robinson Twitter\nDanielle Robinson Linkedin\nRayya El Zien Twitter\nRayya El Zien Linkedin\nCode for Science & Society\nCode for Science & Society Twitter\nThe Digital Infrastructure Incubator at Code for Science & Society\nSimply Secure\n\n\nCredits\n\n\nProduced by Richard Littauer\nEdited by Paul M. Bahr at Peachtree Sound\nShow notes by DeAnn Bahr at Peachtree Sound\nSpecial Guests: Danielle Robinson and Rayya El Zein.","content_html":"Danielle Robinson and Rayya El Zein, Code For Science & Society
\n\nWelcome to the first episode of the Digital Infrastructure podcast!
\n\nThis is a new podcast focused on grantees from the Digital Infrastructure Fund. This fund, funded by the Ford Foundation, the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, Open Society Foundations, the Omidyar Network, and the Mozilla Open Source Support Program in collaboration with the Open Collective Foundation, consists of around $1.3 million worth of grants given out to thirteen research projects, which are advancing our understanding of critical digital infrastructure across the globe.
\n\nFor those of you who are new to Digital Infrastructure, the very idea is that all our society at this point is built up on open source, on code, on projects that like roads, bridges, and electric grids, and that these need to be maintained. Since digital infrastructure is a new phenomenon in human society we don’t really understand how to fund it properly. The grantees are researching ways we can define digital infrastructure and how can we better support the people who maintain it.
\n\nToday, we have two grantees from Code for Science and Society, who will talk about their grant: the Digital Infrastructure Incubator. Danielle Robinson, the Executive Director of Code for Science and Society (CSS), and Rayya El Zein, the Program Manager for the Digital Infrastructure Incubator, are joining us today. We hope you enjoy this podcast and learn something new about Digital Infrastructure.
\n\n[00:02:38] Danielle tells us how she became the Executive Director of Code for Science and Society.
\n\n[00:06:27] Rayya tells us about her background and how she got involved as Program Manager for the Digital Infrastructure Incubator at CSS.
\n\n[00:09:00] Since CSS has been around for a few years now, Richard asks Danielle and Rayya, if someone was a researcher, why would they choose to have their project incubated there as opposed to somewhere else.
\n\n[00:16:22] Danielle explains more about the way they wrote the grant and Rayya tells us more about launching some web presence for the incubator and a call for expressions of interest that will be coming soon to fill the five positions that they have available. Also, Rayya mentions Simply Secure doing an implementation process in a similar fashion.
\n\n[00:19:46] Find out where you can follow along with the Digital Infrastructure Incubator at CSS, and where you can apply.
\n\n[00:21:34] Rayya and Danielle share what Digital Infrastructure means to them.
\n\n[00:27:14] If you have any questions, Richard tells us where you can contact him and find out where you can follow Danielle and Rayya personally on the internet.
\n\nSpecial Guests: Danielle Robinson and Rayya El Zein.
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