Open Source is widely applied across many industries, with the most prominent being Software.
Open Source follows the simple principle of jointly working on a topic which will be available to the public.
Open Source is widely applied across many industries, with the most prominent being Software.
The benefits of open source in the context of LF energy CoMPAS are:
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project living in the public space. While collaboration will be valued by everybody, it will not always be easy to achieve collaboration.
Collaboration
Focus around: What are we trying to achieve?
Mental attitudes:
- Respect for colleagues contributions
- Openness to experimenting with other; ideas
- Sensitivity to how one's actions may affect both colleagues' work and the missions' outcome
Trust and an outward focus in any project are essential. We all have the tendency to fixate on ourselves—what we'd like to say and achieve—instead of what we can learn from others. There is a time to listen and explore others' ideas and a time to critique ideas and select the ones to pursue. Mixing these things up will undermine collaboration.
- Listen not talk
- Practice empathy
- Be comfortable with feedback
- Lead and follow
- Speak clearly
- Go for Win-win-win
Benefits
The benefits of open source of LF Energy CoMPAS or any context are:
- Increased use-case robustness, due to multiple roles, companies, and perspectives defining them
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- Reduced cost, due to work load being shared among the community & lowering market entry barriers for new vendors
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- Larger user base
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- because the specification is modular and applicable to markets world-wide
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- Increases attractiveness, due to applicability of larger economy of scales
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- Enables
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- ecosystem, of additional devices and applications
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- Always up-to-date, lessons learned from all parties are published and thereby continuously update the specification