Introduction
For our Ledgerback Digital Commons Research Cooperative (LDCRC) Roadmap for 2020 - 21, we have decided to discuss our specific end-goals in individual posts, centered on the development of certain projects and research objectives, throughout April and May.
In this post, we will discuss our Infrastructure Transition plan and our goals for the project.
Pre-Transition
The Infrastructure Transition plan is our transition plan for moving all of our operational and collaborative infrastructure to free and open source technologies and cooperatively-run and -managed technology service providers.
Our current technology stack at the LDCRC are the following services and providers are:
Collaboration and Communication:
Slack
Journal Hosting
PubPub
Blog Hosting
Medium
Research and Software repository
Github
Task Management
Trello
Cloud Storage:
Google Drive
Newsletter Hosting
Substack
Collaborative Editing
Google Docs
Overleaf
Post-Transition
As part of our mission, and pursuant to our principles and values, we believe we should work towards transitioning from our current technology stack to a technology stack that is more commensurate with our mission and principles and values.
A shortlist of technologies and providers we are considering for our post-transition technology stack are:
Blog Hosting
Publish0x
Collaboration and Communication
Keybase
Mattermost
Loomio
Collective.tools
Cloud/Data Storage:
Nextcloud
InterPlantery File System
DAT
Membership Accounting
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Members-only Materials
Unlock Protocol
Membership Identifiers
Non-fungible Tokens
Discussion Forums
Discourse
Research Documentation
Documents saved in:
Markdown (.md) Format
Semantic Web Formats
Data Analyses saved in Jupyter Notebooks and primarily Python (.py)
Data stored in Open Data Formats
Transition Plan
Our strategic plan for transitioning our technology stack is the following member-discovery approach (In this approach, members actively sense and find alternatives for use in the Co-op and present such alternatives to the Co-op for consideration and adoption):
Research alternative technologies and providers that are inline with our principles and values
Conduct a trial run of the alternative technology or provider
Notify the Co-op of the alternative technology or provider
Deliberate the merit of accepting or denying the adoption of the alternative technology or provider
Either accept or deny the adoption of the alternative technology provider
Expected Timeline
2020
End of Q4: Have a list of alternatives prepared and submitted for deliberation
2021
End of Q2: Confirmed our list of alternatives and specific transition steps
End of Q3: Have a production-version of Laplace available for use by the public