Open source for good: the people and projects driving change
summary
Community-run projects host code and docs on GitHub and report concrete outputs: an open voice assistant Susi AI, an Eventbrite clone Eventyay, a pocket oscilloscope hardware lab and an education program that adds about 600 new GitHub users per Codeheat season. A 3,000‑member org runs annual conferences (March, Singapore), mentors Google Code‑In students, and partners with UNESCO and CKAN/frictionless‑data initiatives to scale reuse, lower procurement barriers, and sustain contributor communities.
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chapters (14)
- 0:00Introduction and welcome
- 1:42Introducing the panelists
- 3:31Catherine’s open knowledge mission
- 7:05Hong’s open source journey
- 12:10Barriers in open source for good
- 14:21Opportunities in the open source landscape
- 16:50Working with governments and global orgs
- 19:41Role of companies like GitHub
- 22:13Building inclusive open source communities
- 26:48Community building journey
- 29:38How to get involved
- 32:16GitHub’s social impact vision
- 36:25Audience Q&A session
- 40:45Closing remarks and thanks
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