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[OSPO Book] Taxonomy: ways to improve book navigation and categorize references #261

Closed anajsana closed 6 months ago

anajsana commented 1 year ago

Chapters cover a wide variety of topics which approach might change depending on the nature of the organization that has an OSPO (enterprises, NGO, government, university).

An idea could be to make an initial segmentation and use them as tags that can be included in each chapter and/or topic. This way is easier for the reader to understand that a specific resource or study serves better organizations with "X" goals. For instance:

This book is intended for Open Source Program Office managers, policymakers, executives, and stakeholders within organizations. Throughout the book, you can find up to three colored tags, that represent the different entities that could establish an open source program office (OSPO) based on the wide organization’s goals:

Maybe something to include in Chapter 0

itprofjacobs commented 1 year ago

I like this as far as it goes, some thoughts…

Social Oriented: Might be split into civic/federal/governmental (pick one) and Humanitarian/Aid/other. These distinctions are often important. You’d either keep them both under the umbrella of “Social” or you might use them as individual categories.

Id use Education Oriented as the heading. You might also note that there are business entities that provide training and certification (which are still education, but different than what “Higher Ed” does, and are definitely primarily focused on creating business value). That makes them different than purely educational entities that also do research, etc.

SJ

On Feb 22, 2023, at 12:11 PM, Ana Jimenez Santamaria @.***> wrote:

Chapters cover a wide variety of topics which approach might change depending on the nature of the organization that has an OSPO (enterprises, NGO, government, university).

An idea could be to make an initial segmentation and use them as tags that can be included in each chapter and/or topic. This way is easier for the reader to understand that a specific resource or study serves better organizations with "X" goals. For instance:

This book is intended for Open Source Program Office managers, policymakers, executives, and stakeholders within organizations. Throughout the book, you can find up to three colored tags, that represent the different entities that could establish an open source program office (OSPO) based on the wide organization’s goals:

Maybe something to include in Chapter 0

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anajsana commented 1 year ago

Thanks, @itprofjacobs for the valuable feedback!

Social Oriented: Might be split into civic/federal/governmental (pick one) and Humanitarian/Aid/other

That's good idea and maybe those could be subsections of the main social-oriented tag

You might also note that there are business entities that provide training and certification

Maybe having those as a "hybrid" special case (e.g business-education). Saying this, it might be helpful to have a schema that visualizes those "hybrid" OSPOs, that comes from the combination of the two. For instance:

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itprofjacobs commented 1 year ago

Good start. I’m slammed this week and early next week, but I’ll add this to the stack to kick around some.

On Feb 23, 2023, at 5:52 AM, Ana Jimenez Santamaria @.***> wrote:

Thanks, @itprofjacobs https://github.com/itprofjacobs for the valuable feedback!

Social Oriented: Might be split into civic/federal/governmental (pick one) and Humanitarian/Aid/other

That's good idea and maybe those could be subsections of the main social-oriented tag

You might also note that there are business entities that provide training and certification

Maybe having those as a "hybrid" special case (e.g business-education). Saying this, it might be helpful to have a schema that visualizes those "hybrid" OSPOs, that comes from the combination of the two. For instance:

https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/43671777/220886347-d2f5f97e-d456-4cd4-8a97-a780d7e00ba4.png — Reply to this email directly, view it on GitHub https://github.com/todogroup/ospology/issues/261#issuecomment-1441550418, or unsubscribe https://github.com/notifications/unsubscribe-auth/AAII2PJUR2JRPUCU24ZR7K3WY46OFANCNFSM6AAAAAAVETEDOU. You are receiving this because you were mentioned.

chrisxie-fw commented 1 year ago

How about this:

An Open Source Program Office (OSPO) is a department within an organization that is responsible for managing the use, development, and release of open source software. The following are some categories of organizations that have OSPOs:

These categories are not mutually exclusive, and organizations from different sectors may have similar OSPOs.

anajsana commented 1 year ago

Thanks, @chrisxie-fw for your input! I think that, for naming categories, is important to focus on the goal type when categorizing OSPOs, rather than the industry (that is what you were suggesting). I think that within the "goal-type" categories, we can of course mention types of industries that can fit (so basically, the industries you have just mentioned: Technology companies, government agencies, etc). What about this:

Goal-type Sub-sections Motivators Industry Verticals 
Business Oriented OSPOs
  • Innovation
  • Risk Management
  • Legal Compliance
  • Talent Retention
  • Technology companies
  • Financial institutions
  • Educational Oriented OSPOs
  • Knowledge Sharing
  • Student Engagement
  • Curriculum Development
  • Open Data
  • Educational institutions
    Business-Education OSPOs Business Oriented & Educational Oriented motivators For-profit Orgs providing courses
    Social-oriented OSPOs
  • Interoperability
  • accesibility
  • privacy and security
  • transparency
  • Government agencies
  • Non-profit organization
  • Social type 1 Subsection of Social-oriented OSPOs Civic / Federal/Governamental
    Social type 2 Subsection of Social-oriented OSPOs Humanitarian / Aid / Other
    itprofjacobs commented 1 year ago

    I like Ana’s first pass at visualization. I feel like there’s some kind of Venn diagram, splatter plot or something that maps Goal, Motivators and institutions. I’ll ask my team to take a look at this stuff over the next week and try to come up with some thoughts and perhaps a stab or two at a draft.

    On Feb 24, 2023, at 9:45 AM, Ana Jimenez Santamaria @.***> wrote:

    Thanks, @chrisxie-fw https://github.com/chrisxie-fw for your input! I think that, for naming categories, is important to focus on the goal type when categorizing OSPOs, rather than the industry (that is what you were suggesting). I think that within the "goal-type" categories, we can of course mention types of industries that can fit (so basically, the industries you have just mentioned: Technology companies, government agencies, etc). What about this:

    Goal-type Motivators Industry Verticals Business Oriented OSPOs
    Innovation Risk Management Legal Compliance Talent Retention Technology companies Financial institutions Educational Oriented OSPOs
    Knowledge Sharing Student Engagement Curriculum Development Open Data Educational institutions — Reply to this email directly, view it on GitHub https://github.com/todogroup/ospology/issues/261#issuecomment-1443784320, or unsubscribe https://github.com/notifications/unsubscribe-auth/AAII2PJLWMTQGZAKJV3JLT3WZDCPFANCNFSM6AAAAAAVETEDOU. You are receiving this because you were mentioned.

    anajsana commented 1 year ago

    FYI: related thread on taxonomy and book navigation: https://lists.todogroup.org/g/ospo-book-project/message/4

    anajsana commented 1 year ago

    The related PR that defines the taxonomy based on this issue discussion and contributors' feedback has been approved and merged: https://github.com/todogroup/ospology/blob/main/ospo-book/chapters/taxonomy.md

    anajsana commented 1 year ago

    To improve the description of each tag, please open a new PR with the edition of the taxonomy.md 👍 In addition, a glossary.md has been created and sent as PR for review: https://github.com/todogroup/ospology/pull/286

    anajsana commented 6 months ago

    Taxonomy already added to the OSPO Book: https://ospobook.todogroup.org/taxonomy/