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title: Brainstorming for the next steps of OpenSustain.tech

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This documents collects ideas and visions for future direction for the OpenSustain.tech website and reports:

0. Team ( Please enter your GitHub username name behind your name. Please enter your phone number if you want to join the signal channel.)
    1. John
    2. Dan
    3. Josh
    4. Andrew
    5. Tobias
    7. Hilary
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    External Supports:
    10. Richard Littauer (Podcast and Interview Support?)
    11. Maarten Grootendorst ( Supporting as in NPL data processing!)

0. Recommended Communication and Planning Tools 
    1. Signal ( Internal Community Chat ) --> Internal Chat / Quick chats and fast sync between people. No larger discussions please
    2. Gitter ( Public Community Chat ) --> Will be activate for external supporters and as simple way to interact with the community
    3. GitHub ( Issue Tracker for Project management )
    4. Jitsi ( Video Calls )  --> https://meet.jit.si/opensustain_tech

0. Development Tools
    1. Google docs for collaborative draft creation
    2. Quarto for Dashboard Creation or again Jupyter Book
    3. Panda + Plotly for Data Science 

0. Groups
    1. Qualitative Analysis
        1. Interviews
        2. Open Sustainability Principlies
        3. Open Source Strategies 
    2. Quantiative Analysis
        1. Data Analysis 
        2. Data Labeling
        3. Plot Creation 
    3. Report Creation
        1. The main role for the different chapters will be divided among all. Structure and key questions/objectives of each chapter are used to synchronize the different authors and keep a red line.

0. Meetings
    1. Qualitative Analysis Working Group (Every 2 Weeks)
        1. Everyone can join
        2. Reporting to each other about what has been done
    3. Quantiative Analysis Working Group (Every 2 Weeks)
        1. Everyone can join
        2. Reporting to each other about what has been done
    5. Community Meetings (Every 4 weeks)
        1. Everyone can join
        2. Open Agenda 
        3. Open to the public as an entry point

0. Development Process
    0. Tasks / issues from the kanban board are pulled not pushed to individuals. (Self motivated commitment) 
    1. Open to the Open Source Community and Open Science to allow external people to join.
    2. Pure Kanban with one Backlog for everyone
    3. Everyone can create issues also for other working groups!
    4. No hierarchy but clear roles
    5. Everyone is first author how contributed to the dataset or the report in an larger extend. 
  

0. Roadmap for Report Release 
    1. Brainstorming / literature research / definition of objectives and scientific questions 
    2. Creation of Table of content draft
    3. Creation of qualiative and quantiative groundwork / data 
    4. Collaborative creation of the draft in google docs 
    5. Copy editing
    6. Porting to PDF / Website
    7. Final Review 
    8. Release at SustainabilityCon ?!

0. Artefacts / Outputs 
    1. Launch Blog Post
    2. Update and Improve Database
    3. Keyword / Topic Dictionary for OpenSustain.tech Dataset
    4. Software Tools for new project discovery
    5. Report as PDF Version
    6. Plots as Dashboard with Link to PDF for the full report
    7. Presentation Slides for Conferences 
    8. Nature / Science Article 
    9. Open Sustainability Manifesto

0. Compensation. Make it a Win / Win for every person contributing
    0. Everybody is resposible to make it a win / win for everyone 
    Types of personal Compensation / win 
        1. Money 
        2. Networking
        3. Marketing / Reputation for envolved organisations
        4. Insights / Education / Training / Learning New Skills
        5. People can use the projects to learn new skills. No blaming/shaming for not be able to do things and/or asking. 

2. Review / Revision of the governance structure
    * Making the projects an offical LF Energy Project. 
    * Low Overhead
    * Free Community with Freedom of Speech  
    * Authorship of chapters? Everyone is first author of the whole report who contributed to a certain level.
    * Voting / Community Weighting of priority for milestones, goals and issues?
    * Permissions --> 2 Reviews for the report and 1 review the list
    * **Review Contribution Guide and Code of Conduct**
        * Integration of Open Sustainability principles 
    * Community meeting 1 per month --> Working Groups self organised 

2. Funding
    * Sources
        * Open Source Collective
        * GitHub Sponsors
        * Grants
            * https://subak.org/
            * https://scoss.org/
            * https://investinopen.org/blog/open-infrastructure-fund-pilot-cfp/#advisory-panel
            * https://prototypefund.de/
            * https://sovereigntechfund.de/en/
            * https://github.com/PlaintextGroup/oss-virtual-incubator
    * Cost
        * Travel and Conferences 
        * Front End Design
        * Traffic Analytics
        * Data Designer
        * Podcast ?
    * Donation Option ready for the PDF release 
    
3. Cleanup and Expend dataset:
    * Better Rubrics and ordering of Projects 
        * Framework / "Operating System" Perspective
        * Split Biosphere
            * Biodiversity
            * Forest and Trees 
            * Biomass 
            * Habitats and Conservation
            * Marine Life
            * Wildfire
        * Split Hydrosphere
            * Groundwater
            * Oceans
            * Rivers
            * Fishery --> move to Biosphere?
    * Add logos to projects from LF Landscape (https://landscape.lfenergy.org/)
    * NLP based on project READMEs, Papers and organisation websites
        * Potential tooling and datasets
            *  Pandas.ai for processing of the database (https://github.com/gventuri/pandas-ai)
            *  https://github.com/MaartenGr/BERTopic and https://github.com/MaartenGr/BERTopic for topic modeling
            *  Testing https://github.com/sebischair/Lbl2Vec
            *  https://www.chatclimate.ai/climatebert
            *  https://github.com/ddangelov/Top2Vec
        * Similar approch for the IPCC report:
            * https://github.com/petermr/semanticClimate/
        * Creation of keyword dictionary
        * Automatic labeling of namespaces "For-Profit / Non-Profit / Gov / Community" 
        * Create better and consistent labels
            * Create a consistent list of keyword of "Open Sustainable Technology".
        * Connections/graphs of exisiting projects 
        * List of references / publications 
        * List of related / compatible datasets working with the software
        * Acquisition of information concerning the geographic coverage of models, software and data
        * Automatic detection of the type and location of the organization.
        * Flow Chart: https://github.com/protontypes/AwesomeCure/blob/main/docs/topic_processing.drawio.svg
        * Colab: https://colab.research.google.com/drive/1Y5exVWXYFvbYp0yzbJcpya6FL8HejYRu?authuser=1#scrollTo=BG8S-Qz_Lmy8

    * Project health 
        * Create 'burnout' indicators with DDS, usage and activity data
            * Validate the health by targeted interviews with projects of "good" and "bad" health
        * Investigation of the correlation between the project health and other project data
    * Usage and users of projects 
        * Get download 
        * Get number of citations 
        * Get number of papers refering to projects 
    * Automated detection of new projects
        * Based on research papers
        * Based on package managers 
        * Based on new projects in relevant namespaces
    * Further platform integration
        * Integration of other platforms like GitLab and Zenodo.
            * More datasets / software and tools.
            * Common metadata investigation
    * Label project based on existing ontology / taxonomy 
        * SDGs
        * The Environment Ontology
        * Description for every topic / fields
    * The role of GIS platforms and open source alternatives for GEE
        * The Microsoft Planetary Computer
        * Leaflet / leafmap
4. Report 2023: 
    * Build PDF from 2023 Website
        * Refine and condense existing content
        * Better title image
        * New Branding with LF

        * Organisations ask to help for distribution:
            * Green Software Foundation
            * Green Web Foundation 
            * Climate Change AI
            * OpenMod Initiative
            * https://www.openenvironmentaldata.org/
            * ClimateAction.tech
            * Fox from MetEOC
            * Sustain
            * https://openclimatecampaign.org/
            * Subak
            * ElectricityMap
            * Digital Public Goods 
            * GitHub
5. Report 2024: 
    * **Goals**
        * Strong Community
        * Sustain OpenSustain.tech
        * Open Environmental Strategies and Recommendations
        * Resource to the community 
        * Recommendations --> Clear Impact 
        * Landscape Update 
        * Colaboration between projects 
        * Help funders how to get into this space --> JJ from VC 
        * Find the Gaps
        * State/Health of exisiting projects --> Dependencies health
        * Dashboard 
        * Automation of processes like dicovery 
        * Python and Cloud Computing 
    * Launch blog post 
    * What is new in 2024
        * New projects
        * New trends
        * New organisations
    * Further investigation of "ecosystem cooperations" 
        * Based on dependencies / dependence
            * Which projects are used in combination?
        * Based on common keywords / interfaces (for example STAC)
        * Based on usage data
        * Based on labels
        * Discussions on how 
    * Further targeted interviews 
        * More qualitative analysis. 
        * Examining common patterns between interviews. 
        * Publication of every interview as a blog post
        * Invesigation of missing tools / platforms and datasets based on interviews
            * Possible Interviews:
                * https://ghetool.eu/ --> OS Tool just starting making a business from a more academic background.
                * https://allisonhorst.github.io/palmerpenguins/ --> The Linux people will love this
    * Open Environmental Strategies and Recommendations
        * Discussions / Interviews on different business / impact strategies 
    * Deep Dive into organisation classification
    * Integration of projects within the learning section into the study.
    * Deep Dive into one field like Biosphere or Sustainable Investment 
    * Risk and abuse of Open Sustainability ( The Dark Side)
        * Lost of Privacy / Surveillance
        * Usage without contribution and giving back
        * Value of open source code / data cannot be estimated. What value this development has for the user remains unclear. Difficulty to identify the usage / users. 
        * Open Washing :https://www.shell.com/energy-and-innovation/digitalisation/news-room/a-transparent-carbon-footprint-of-supply-chains.html --> The project is not open and is from my research just marketing without real product development.
        * "Technologieoffenheit" --> Technology Openness --> Abuse of the relationship between openness and technology in the German language by the multiple political parties
    * What is the role of AI? How many open source projects mention AI? How healthy are AI projects? 
        * https://github.blog/2023-07-26-how-to-get-ai-regulation-right-for-open-source/
    * New EU Rules about Green Claims could be a huge drive for enviromental intelligence 
        * https://environment.ec.europa.eu/topics/circular-economy/green-claims_en
        * https://www.dw.com/en/greenwashing-how-the-eu-is-seeking-to-address-false-claims/a-65677408
        * https://nachrichten.handelsblatt.com/2d736b9c824631c9e9eb8295a86ba7d0759e85f7c18c8ed86b225e5080e0151afe7d9aa0aaa94397212ff751ad9905ea029246576
    * Guest Articles
        * What is the role of open source in Policy making (https://app.climatepolicyradar.org/) 
    * The role of Open Model (free models) for defining Sustainability in a Democratic Procress via objective outcomes
    * Heat Pumps ( Many API projects)
    * What topics are not covered so far or have very little active projects
        * Are we able to compare our topics found on OpenSustain.tech with other topic dics / databases like from the IPCC / Global Stocktake report? --> Automated gab detection of projects.
        * Carbon offset assessment for companies 
        * Desalination
        * Sanitary facilities / bioenergy
        * Ocean Acidification
        * Carbon Trade
    * How Deutsche Welle is using public repositories to create transparency in climate environmental journalism: https://github.com/dw-data
    * The role of the new Nature Restoration Act in EU: https://www.dw.com/en/eu-lawmakers-pass-nature-restoration-bill-in-razor-thin-vote/a-66199587
    * Inflation Reduction Act Guidebook: https://www.whitehouse.gov/cleanenergy/inflation-reduction-act-guidebook/
    * Ecological Niche Models getting very popular?!


6. Website revision
    * Landscape View
    * Card View 
    * Label/group inactive projects
    * Search interface
    * Integration of logos 
    * Better backend
        * Real Database 
        * Automated update of database metadata
    * Automated Newsfeed 
        * based on new projects of identified GitHub Organisation namespaces 
        * based on identified key words of the current dataset 
    * Open Sustainability Principles Section or new Website 
    * New framework for better UX?
    * Dashboard

7. OpenSustain.Framework
    * Compilation of best of the best tools for all domains
    * Creation of application examples for the combination of these tools
    * Led by Open Corridor and partners together with community 
    
8. OpenSustain.Academy
    * Creation of an open source course on environmental sustainability.
    * Every projects creates it own course video. OpenSustain.tech helps in content creation and content aligment 

9. OpenSustain.News
    * Create a post for every new project to mention the people involved. 
    * Integration for further Social Media Platforms mastodon and linkedin
    * Publish Interviews used for the report
    * News about projects, organisations, datasets and tools.
    * Create incentives on how to add projects to OpenSustain.tech
    * Readers creating blogposts

10. Related references and reports
    * https://ember-climate.org/insights/research/asia-data-transparency-report-2023/
    * https://about.scarf.sh/post/state-of-open-source-usage-q1-2023-the-scarf-report
    * https://ploum.net/2023-06-19-more-rms.html
    * Report released by Ana Andries as part of MetEOC-4 at the end of the year: https://www.surrey.ac.uk/people/ana-andries
    * https://stateof.greensoftware.foundation/insights/green-software-specialized-tools/
    * https://digitalpublicgoods.net/DPGA-Climate_Change_Adaptation_Report.pdf
    * https://blogs.reading.ac.uk/weather-and-climate-at-reading/2021/whats-that-data-why-and-how-the-geoscientific-community-is-forging-metadata-standards/
    * https://opencoreventures.com/blog/2023-06-27-ai-weights-are-not-open-source/
    * https://apnews.com/article/drones-business-climate-and-environment-0a1ab9be3427818cfe5f33521b9b05c2
    * https://docs.google.com/document/d/1oGyTbAA1yoAg8qoKoZBVoUudJa-AXaO4lyoY6X3dsI0/edit
    * https://www.researchgate.net/publication/373006122_The_Role_of_Open-Source_Software_in_the_Energy_Sector
    * https://openuk.uk/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/REPORT.pdf
    * https://podcast.sustainoss.org/187
    * https://techforforests.org/tech-for-forests.pdf
    * https://www.bristows.com/news/open-source-and-sustainability-wheres-the-gap/
    * https://www.ft.com/content/fbe10867-fea1-4887-b404-9f9e301e102e
    * https://sustainableafricainitiative.org/#footer
    * https://spectrum.ieee.org/power-grid-transparency-eu-us
    * https://www.digit.fyi/openuk-and-the-un-announce-open-source-data-centre-challenge/
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