@khinsen @jonny @devnull @daviwil @Mehrad @bonfire @nodebb

Yes. But that's part of it, and still a technical perspective. Follow-up Q is: Who's creating, maintaining, evolving the protocols, formats and data models?

At least when considering protocols focus is on ecosystem level. But to make the ecosystem healthy it needs a "substrate" of people, processes, organization structure that maintain it.

#SocialCoding considers the #FSDL: Free Software Development Lifecycle

https://discuss.coding.social/t/brainstorm-components-of-the-free-software-development-lifecycle-wiki-post/53

@adamgreenfield another Btw..

Re: Big Industry vs. Grassroots #FOSS I posted to Social Coding Movement:

https://discuss.coding.social/t/foss-strategies-why-does-big-industry-work-and-big-foss-ecosystems-dont/192

Though topic isn't elaborated much, #SocialCoding adopts a holistic view on the entire Free Software Development Lifecycle, the #FSDL. Which then includes the question "How can fragmented small initiatives find cohesion and thrive in a sustainable ecosystem?"

Observation is that the ecosystem must be healthy, so it can evolve. And 'Ecosystem focus' is often absent.

@ehashman

Btw, I took notes on fedi's challenges here: https://discuss.coding.social/t/major-challenges-for-the-fediverse/67

In Social Coding Movement the objective is to focus on all those aspects that go beyond cranking out code. To consider the entire Free Software Development Lifecycle (#FSDL) and how it can be supported ideally by federated technology.

@RyunoKi @kirschner @fsfe @forgefriends

#REUSE was discussed on our #SocialCoding channels the other day, and folks having real good experiences. I intend to use the tools and #SPDX specs myself.

There is a forum topic on this: https://discuss.coding.social/t/software-transparency-software-bill-of-materials-sbom-and-spdx/104

And a best-practice template + discussion for REUSE to be included in the https://coding.social pattern library.

https://discuss.coding.social/t/licensing-reuse-conformance/87

Licensing is important part of the Free Software Development Lifecycle (#FSDL).