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Alba: Hello and welcome to Let's talk about public code, a podcast by the Foundation for Public Code. My name is Alba Roza.
Jan: And my name is Jan Ainali. We are both codebase stewards at the Foundation for Public Code focusing on the communities of the codebases we work with.
Alba: That is why wanted to start this podcast, to be able to both showcase and learn about the fantastic codebase communities that we come across in our work.
Jan: This is the first show in this series where we interview someone who is actually in one of these communities. We aim to release new episodes monthly.
Alba: Throughout this series we will get to know, with the help of our guests, several projects that do work with public code.
Jan: So we define public code to be both civic code (like policy or regulation) and computer source code (such as software and algorithms) executed in a public context, by humans or machines.
Alba: And because it serves the public interest, it should be: open, legible, accountable, accessible and sustainable.
Jan: Every government is going through digital transformation. But the proportion of governments in the world that are going through digital transformations compared to the number of technologists that understand this or programmers that want to help with that makes it a tough problem.
Alba: We need to be able to work together - it's either we work together or we give the keys to companies that'll sell us things, and then they'll keep us in their grid. So we need to learn how to work together. As the Foundation for Public Code, we are trying to build that collaboration at scale.
Jan: With that as our background, let's bring on our first guest in this series.
Alba: Today we will talk to Arnau Monterde, Doctor in Information Society and Knowledge by the Open University of Catalunya.
Jan: He is the Technopolicy project coordinator of the research group Communication Networks and Social Change at the Internet Interdisciplinary Institute since 2011 at the UOC.
Alba: Last but not least he is the coordinator of the codebase Decidim in Barcelona and Decidim.org, welcome Arnau!
1.REPLIED What is Public Code to you?
2.REPLIED Did you know the Foundation for Public Code before?
3.REPLIED What is Decidim. Flashy numbers to explain it, perhaps?
4.REPLIED What is the persona, profile of the people that belongs to your community?
5.REPLIED Differences in between Decidim and MetaDecidim. Why there was a need of creating this association?
6.REPLIED Your MetaDecidim members can be both individuals and public organizations. How did you achieve so many individual contributions to an open source project? (Also asked for $)
7.KINDOFREPLIED Why did your codebase get so popular? Steps you had to take.
8.REPLIED Issues or difficulties handling it. Steps to avoid.
9.REPLIED You have a very large and diverse community. How do you manage to talk to such a different spectrum of people?
10.REPLIED When the project was born you were also very close to CONSUL in Madrid. Why did you decide to keep both codebases? Aren't they more similar than someone would think?
11. Also keeping an eye on what happened in CONSUL in Madrid, do you see a stable future for Decidim?
12.REPLIED There is an event called DecidimFest coming up in November. Can you tell us a little bit about what it is and why you started it?
13.REPLIED What are the future steps you'd like to follow
14. Is there something you wanted to tell us but that we didn't ask about?
15. Nominate someone for this podcast as following guest.
16. If people want to get in contact, where can they find you?
Thank you Arnau for making the time to come on here in our first episode.
The audio version of this will be out tomorrow evening, you can subscribe to the podcast at podcast.publiccode.net
Or you can subscribe to our Youtube channel instead if you like the video format.
We will be back in about a month, if you want to engage in even more interactive sessions you can join us in our community calls, which you can sign up for in the link in the footer in our site about.publiccode.net
Bye!
Title: Let's talk about public code #1 - Arnau Monterde, Decidim
Description: In the first episode of 'Let's talk about public code', we will meet Arnau Monterde. Arnau holds a PhD in Information Society and Knowledge from the Open University of Catalunya, and is the coordinator of Decidim codebase. Decidim enables free open-source participatory democracy for cities and organizations.
Codebase level:
Personal level (interviewee):
Keep an eye on underrepresented collectives (ethnicity, gender, religion, sexual preferences, etc.)
Use Streamyard.com. It can livestream to several platforms at once. We can start by streaming to:
The Streamyard account need to have someone who has administrator/editor rights on these destination platforms to connect them before streaming (only need to be done once). It's $39/month, up to 8 destinations.
After the livestream, we could also reuse the audio. By doing some editing on it (cut out long pauses, normalize and compress audio etc.) adding more bumpers in some place we can make it sound more professional. Then we can distribute through any of the existing podcast networks (or even host it ourselves if we want). When a podcast is set up somewhere, and there is a RSS feed for it, it can also be connected to Hacker Public Radio and Free Culture Podcasts.
Take a look at the communications plan here.
For LinkedIn and Youtube the streams can be created long before, and will give the followers an option to be reminded. On Facebook it's only possibly a week in advance. But for all these, they are quite favoured by the algorithms and followers will generelly recieve notifications unless they opt-out.
Twitter only have a shareable link once the streams start, but it is also possible to tag people in the tweet so they easily can retweet it when it starts. For this reason one tactic could be to make the introduction long enough for the guests to be able to retweet it before they are brought on screen. The guests should of course be briefed about this so that they are prepared.
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