Gathering Open Sustainable Technology

[jwf (Justin W. Flory (he/him))]

Hi @Ly0n, thanks for sharing!

Out of curiosity, have you heard about the Digital Public Goods Alliance? This effort sounds similar to on-going work to build a list of sustainable open source projects, a.k.a. Digital Public Goods:

Introducing the Digital Public Goods Alliance

Hi folks, this is some exciting Open Source news from the social sector, specifically the governments of Norway and Sierra Leone, UNICEF, and iSPIRT: The [Digital Public Goods] Alliance, supported by the UN Secretary’s Roadmap for Digital Cooperation, defines digital public goods as: “open source software, open data, open AI models, open standards and open content that adhere to privacy and other applicable best practices, do no harm and are of high relevance for attainment of the UN’s 2030 Su…

You may also be interested in what @lharris shared about a common standard for evaluating whether a project is a Digital Public Good or not:

Announcing the Open Standard for Digital Public Goods

Hey Sustainers! Last week, the DPG Alliance published the Digital Public Goods Standard 1.0. The Standard is a set of specifications and guidelines designed to maximize consensus about whether something conforms to the definition of digital public good laid out by the UN Secretary General in the 2020 Roadmap to Digital Cooperation: open source software, open data, open AI models, open standards and open content that adhere to privacy and other applicable laws and best practices, do no harm, and…