D//F
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The D//F (Digital Infrastructure Insights Fund) is a multi- funder research initiative sustaining a platform for academics & practitioners to better understand how open digital infrastructure is built & deployed. Open Calls & Commissions. Open digital infrastructures are the code, standards, data and knowledge assets foundational for all applied FOSS (code libraries, protocols...) Funders Circle: Ford Foundation, Sloan Foundation, Omidyar Network, Schmidt Futures.
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Please join us in congratulating John D. Boy (U Leiden) on finalising his important project from cohort 3 “What comes after #FOSS?”: https://infrastructureinsights.fund/projects/what-comes-after-foss/
Quick summary:
The report is a corrective rather than a manifesto: retiring the assumption that peer production (in #foss is inherently democratizing, without romanticizing, but closely observing, what replaces it. (1/x)