Nadia has done some great work in this area since her epiphany.

I do wish she had cited something from "holding up the sky".

http://esr.ibiblio.org/?p=4196

On Fri, Nov 11, 2016 at 8:02 AM, David Collier-Brown <davec-b@rogers.com>
wrote:

> Nat Torkington just pointed to a Ford Foundation study on underfunded
> internet infrastructure, (3) below
>
>
> -------- Forwarded Message --------
> Subject: Four short links: 11 November 2016
> Date: Fri, 11 Nov 2016 11:50:00 GMT
> From: Nat Torkington <>
>
> *Arrival Science, Open Source Hospital, Unseen Labour, and FOSS Heartbeat*
>
>    1. The Science of Arrival
>    <https://backchannel.com/i-had-one-night-to-invent-interstellar-travel-b2466882ef5c#.kdzakerv2>
>    (Stephen Wolfram) -- wonderful to see a nerd nerding out about the science
>    in a movie. (He advised on it, and is chuffed that scenes have Wolfram
>    Language on the screens)
>    2. Bahmni <http://www.bahmni.org/> -- *an easy-to-use EMR & hospital
>    system. It combines and enhances existing open source products into a
>    single solution.*
>    3. Roads and Bridges: The Unseen Labor Behind Our Digital
>    Infrastructure
>    <https://fordfoundcontent.blob.core.windows.net/media/2976/roads-and-bridges-the-unseen-labor-behind-our-digital-infrastructure.pdf>
>    (PDF) -- *The pervasive belief, even among stakeholders such as
>    software companies, that open source is well-funded makes it harder to
>    generate support. Some infrastructure projects operate sustainably, either
>    because they have a working business model or sponsorship, or because their
>    required upkeep is limited. An unfamiliar audience will also associate open
>    source with enterprise companies like Red Hat or Docker and assume the
>    problem has been solved. However, these situations are the outliers, not
>    the rule.*
>    4. FOSS Heartbeat <https://github.com/sarahsharp/foss-heartbeat> -- *uses
>    contributor participation data (currently from GitHub) to categorize users
>    into these seven roles*, which are: *Issue reporter, Issue responder,
>    Code contributor, Documentation contributor, Reviewer, Maintainer,
>    Connector.* Sarah Sharp's latest project.
>
> Continue reading Four short links: 11 November 2016.
> <https://www.oreilly.com/ideas/four-short-links-11-november-2016>
>
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