1.OpenKollabCatalyzing Strategic Confluence Suresh Fernando Foundersuresh@radical- inclusion.com

2. What is OpenKollab?Why Build OpenKollab? 3. Given enough eyeballs, all bugs are shallow! Linus Law 4. To get you thinking Would enough eyeballs make the problem ofclimate change shallow?How about global conflict. Global economic inequity. 5. What We Will Talk About Today What is Strategic Confluence? Context What Is OK? OK Goals Project Matching Execution: Driving Collaboration in Ecosystems The OK Model The OK Community of Practice 6. Catalyzing Strategic Confluence Philosophically speaking Confluence: a coming or flowing together, meeting, or gathering at onepoint the flowing together of two or more streams Generally we think of confluence as something that emerges; as a naturalprocess that occurs under certain conditions. We might envision a flockof birds. At times their flight paths might seem chaotic, but in time theywill coordinate their actions and act in concert; their intentions aligning Strategic Confluence: What distinguishes strategic confluence is that we, as agents have an intention to create confluence; an intention to bring about the alignment of intentions and harmony that then results. 7. Strategic Confluence Practically speaking1. Scalable Open Collaboration EnvironmentLow barrier to entry 2. Community of Practicepeople and projects 3. Technology Solution: Platform or DistributedInfrastructure that Matches Projects 4. Processes and ModelsDrive and support collaboration, governance etc.Create Infrastructure That Will EnableMass Coordination and Mobilizationaround large scale social problems 8. Another Perspective Somebodys Theory of Needs! No Open Spacekiller app toSocialconnect people on Friends Networkingbasis of work synergy WHY? Dating Sites Love A Person No one has solve the Open GroupCollaboration ??? Work Problem! 9. ContextWhy the timing is right for OK 10. The Cultural Shift: societal Peer Production: distributed infrastructure communication between network nodes Crowdsourcing: accessing intelligence of masses - nodes Agility: ie. agile software development iterative processdialogue BarCamps: commitment to openness Chaordic Organizational structures: non-hierarchical Top Down vs. Bottom Up Information Categorization: ie. Tagging vs. pre- determined categories Citizen Journalism: power at the network nodes Communities of Practice: learning as a social enterprise based on dialogue and the the ease of communication and information flow Copyleft: Creative Commons share-alike licensing Reflects Transition from Centralization to Decentralization From Closed to Open 11. Cultural Shift Parallels And IsInterdependent With Transformation of CommunicationsInfrastructure Cultural ShiftCommunications InfrastructureThis relationship is due to the fact that Time communications patterns contribute to patterns contribute cultural patterns to cultural patterns 12. A Historical Inflection Point Provides Context for Massive Social Change Technological Transformation towards a decentralized P2P architecture General social media trends toward real time connectivity Cultural Transformation: towards Openness Global Consciousness Internet Problems That Require Global Coordination: climate change Demonstrated Failure of Western Institutions: capitalism most recently Consciousness of responsibility for climate changeTherefore leads to transition from emphasis on individualityto communityThere is a greater consciousness that the status quo need not be so! 13. OK Goals 14. OK Goals[OK_SUP]: Catalyze Strategic Confluence [OK_ SUB_1]: Aggregate 1,000,000 projects on platform [OK_ SUB_1]: Connect 100,000,000 people on platform Wow! Thats either brilliantly ambitious or insane! 15. Why connect 1,000,000 projects? Practically Speaking Market Fragmentation/Redundancy: There are many different, but related projects that could create critical mass and leverage by collaborating Inefficient Deployment of Resources: Financial and human capital resources are scarce and therefore efficiency considerations are paramount. Inefficiency of Mission Alignment: Due to lack of visibility into what other groups with similar objectives are Is BetterEffective Social Change doing, opportunities for increased efficiencyServed By Large Scaleare lost.Coordination and Mobilization Around Common Objectives 16. How does OK connect 1,000,000 projects? Gather Project Information Focus on Scalability Match Project Information Provide Infrastructure to support Collaborative Dialogue 17. How Does OK Gather Project Information?1. Define a basic ontology/meta-data structure1. Goals, needs, resources 2. Provide standardized input forms(relative to ontology) and standardizedsyntax for distributed input (viaTwitter, Facebook) 3. Focus on penetrating Ecosystems 18. Focus on Scalability To scale the process, four things have to happen: 1. Ease of Entry for End User Natural Language Input 2. Project Visibility Natural Language Input 3. Platform Must Add Value must link projects! Semantic Matching 4. Organizational Scalability: OK and Projects What is the model? 19. Project Matching 20. Objective Of Matching ProcessCreate dialogue betweenproximally related organizationsabout collaboration possibilities 21. How Do How You Identify Projects That Are Proximally Related?Gather Meta Data about projects thatwill support linking them to eachotherFirst Approximation Super/Sub-Ordinate Goals Needs/Offers 22. Project Matching Company ACompany BGoal: fight global warming Goal: fight global warmingNeed: marketing support Need: strong developersOffer: strong developers Offer: marketing support 23. Problem: Semantic Ambiguity Company ACompany BGoal: fight global warming Goal: fight climate changeNeed: marketing supportNeed: strong programmersOffers: strong developersOffers: marketing supportSemantic Ambiguity 24. Make Project OntologyGoals Project AssumptionsNeeds Mapping/Matching ResourcesA Hybrid Process Gather Project Data (ontology + qualitative)Identify Relations/Identify MatchesManual Matches Revealed By Platform Identify Meta-DataDiscrepancies Commence Collaborative Modify Project DialogueOntology Assumptions 25. So Why Both A Manual And Automated Process? - HybridWe dont know what meta-data about projects is actually necessary in order to drive collaboration Need an iterative process to learn what worksProject data needs to be authenticated Problem with WiserEarth, for exampleTechnology platform must be developed on top ofexisting real world relationship ie. Facebook 26. Collaborative Dialogue ProcessOK Community Helps to Drive CollaborationDefine Process 1. Make time and process commitmentDeploy 2. Set up chat spaces Resources 3. Set up information spaces: wiki,Google group etc, of OK 4. Coordinate regular open Communitycollaboration sessions 5. Provide expert facilitation 27. Hierarchical Goals and ProjectVisibility 28. Understanding Hierarchical GoalStructures !sup catalyzing strategic confluence !sub1 1,000,000 projects on platformT !sub1 100,000,000 people on platform 3 !sub 2 build Openkollab strategic confluence platform !sub 2 build community of practice T !sub 3 build team 2 !sub 3 build project roadmaps !sub 3 identify subprojects T 1Hierarchical Goals are TemporallySequenced and Force Projects toThink in a Certain Way 29. How Do You Make Projects Visible? Represent the Project in a way that makes it visible OK.SUB.2.2: 'Developing a Technology Platform to Support Catalyzing Strategic Confluence'. This would be associated with the following project structure: PROJECT PERSONAL ONTOLOGYONTOLOGY Mission Age Goals Sex LeaderHeight TeamInterests MilestonesHobbiesNote that Visible Personal Ontologies are a recent phenomena. Why not Visible Project Ontologies? 30. Driving Collaboration in EcosystemsRolling Out the OK Platform and Process 31. What Is An Ecosystem?ClimateChangeForestr Ocean ysProject 1Project 1Project 2Project 2Project 3Project 3LandUse GenerallyProject 1Project 2 connected viaProject 3 communications systems 32. Connecting Ecosystems? What are the points of Climate confluen ChangMeta ce?e GovHuman Rights 33. Driving Collaboration in EcosystemsThe ProcessTest for OntologyAlignment ManuallyBuildCommenceGatherIdentify CollaborationCommunityCollaborativProject IdentifyPlatform OpportunitiesOntologye Ecosystems forDataEcosystem DialogueTest for Ontology Alignment Via PlatformStrategy: DevelopConference EcosystemPlatform Service Offeringi.e. target climate change 34. The OpenKollab Model 35. Organizational StructureWill haveFounders - formalOKcolegalstructure Active Members Members 36. Issues We Are Working Through How do you balance an open environment with the leadership requirement that is necessary to drive projects? For-Profit or Not-for-Profit Should we stipulate all profits be reinvested? What implication does this have for equity/quasi-equity funders? How do we a compensate structure pre- financing? How do we structure a compensation structure that will serve to scale participation? 37. OK Revenue Possibilities Conference Services Consulting Software Development Software Productization 38. The OK Community of Practice 39. What is OK community of practice? Governed by common intention: to drive collaboration Committed to learning together: what is necessary todrive collaboration Committed to developing a common linguisticframework Committed to developing an internal, reputationbased, economic system Committed to developing processes and models tosupport collaboration Operate as an Open Collaboration Space 40. The Importance Of a Common Language Proper discussion/discourse requires Shared Terms of Reference At this time there is no standardized Collaboration Language Note, for example that a semantic framework for social interaction has evolved; lol, lmao, brb. The meaning of terms is contextual Baseball Domain: home-run, triple-play Project Domain: Super-ordinate goal, project, intention Mitigates Semantic Ambiguity Problem 41. How Do You Develop a Common Language? Hybrid: Top-Down and Bottom-Up approach Top Down: introduce set of terms and definitions Bottom Up: allow community to collaborative modify terms and definitions Formal Syntax: develop formal syntax ie. Tent 42. The OK Reputation Based Economic System At least at the outset, what is available for exchange is our time and labour. The return is the garnering of reputation Reputation has currency in the real world. 43. OK Processes and Models 44. OK Communications Structure Listserv IRC Chat Space 45. How OK can help to end the Arab/Israeli Crisis!Perception of No DirectNo Real Time ConflictDifference ExperienceInteraction Possibility of Note: most state sanctionedFalse Informationkilling does not occurAND Build OK Absence of within ones community ExperiencePlatformof Similarity Realize we dont need to kill each otherLeaders realize we are all alike are human Provides Real Time Experience of Each Other Create Generation of Leaders Connected on OK Platform 46. Enterprise Ecosystems Needs/Resource Synergy An ecosystem is a system whose members benefit from each other's participation via symbiotic relationships. Client Client ClientServices LayerPartnerOrganizationPartner Service Delivery Layer Support: Financing, Volunteers Support LayerAll organizations have other organizations that they workwith regularly. These organizations form a set of natural relationships; an Ecosystem 47. Community Formation Coordinated Collaboration Action