“Lonnie G. Bunch, the secretary, has the support of the Board of Regents in his authority and management of the Smithsonian.” The message was clear: Trump does not control the nation’s museums.

And,

As our company grows, openness becomes more important.

(Not less)

#opensource #digipres #archives

We can still be successful without restricting the value of our work to only those who pay us. #opensource #digipres #archives

Openness gives sovereign control to anyone who wants to manage collections or focus on the right to anonymity inherent in a truly open model. #opensource #digipres #archives

We favour collaboration over individual effort. Open source software allows people to collaborate in a way that is more difficult with proprietary code. This is vital for the cultural memory sector to govern its own domain. #opensource #digipres #archives

Working in the open allows us to accept and include community contributions. We strive to participate in a community ecosystem. #opensource #digipres #archives

Towards a Manifesto for May Day -
OSS is open to scrutiny. Anyone can evaluate, audit, use, improve, adapt, and share our code. This improves trust, reliability and transparency, between software developers and organisations, and between organisations and their users. #opensource #digipres #archives