WEBVTT 00:00.000 --> 00:10.800 I think it's time, okay? Yeah. We're going to start the last presentation. Think about 00:10.800 --> 00:17.360 for being here, I know that after Nunes on Sundays and Faustem are really hard and challenging, 00:17.360 --> 00:25.920 so thank you for being here. And also thank you for Faustem and they've room to allow us 00:25.920 --> 00:31.760 to speak here. It's a great experience. And thank you for all the volunteers and video guys. 00:33.520 --> 00:39.600 So I'm going to talk about the overcase on the CDM. It's a software that we are doing on Barcelona. 00:40.560 --> 00:45.120 First, I'm going to talk, well, who am I? I'm one of the founders and lead developers of the CDM. 00:45.120 --> 00:52.480 I've been working with open source mainly since 2011. As I'm a hacker, I don't have like a 00:52.480 --> 00:58.960 good for picture of me, but I have a screenshot of my GitHub profile that's basically the same. 00:59.840 --> 01:06.720 So we're going to start with what is the CDM? The CDM is this is a platform for citizen participation 01:07.280 --> 01:12.480 and now people from here know what it is. How many people know what is the CDM? 01:12.560 --> 01:22.720 Okay, great. So what is it used? This is the name dropping slide. It's been used in Barcelona. 01:22.720 --> 01:31.600 New York City, European Commission, Helsinki, France, the deputy and the Senate also used it. 01:31.600 --> 01:41.040 Lots of places. Okay, about the governance. Of course, as it's a platform for governance 01:41.040 --> 01:48.560 organizations, we use the CDM itself for our governments. This is an example of a participatory 01:48.560 --> 01:59.680 space, an assembly and this is the assembly for the CDM association. So a bit of a summary of what 01:59.680 --> 02:07.520 our history was. We started on 2016. It was launched by the City of Barcelona and Catalonia Spain. 02:08.240 --> 02:16.640 And then we realized that we need to take care of the governance of the goal because as you 02:16.640 --> 02:24.320 as all the governments change, no, we didn't want to be closed. The project to be closed once 02:24.320 --> 02:31.760 the government changed. So we made a participatory process with a community of users of the CDM, 02:31.760 --> 02:41.280 implementers, companies that were we did. And then on 2011, we created the CDM Free Software Association. 02:42.560 --> 02:49.440 Afterwards, we signed an agreement with the CDM of Barcelona and other actors to allow us to 02:49.440 --> 02:58.960 actually work with the goal base and to steer the project. And finally, on 2023, we also signed 02:59.200 --> 03:08.160 a renewal of this agreement. Since the beginning, as I mentioned, first we were financed a lot 03:08.160 --> 03:14.400 through Barcelona. We are still being financed a lot through Barcelona, but we realized that of course 03:14.400 --> 03:23.680 we need other actors here if we want to be a big project. So like a few months after we launched 03:23.680 --> 03:31.280 the first version, local red, a consortium of Catalan Municipalities, rich to us, to say, okay, 03:31.280 --> 03:38.000 yeah, we need to rethink and relaunch the project. So other municipalities can actually reuse it. 03:38.560 --> 03:46.480 And they also provide full worker carol since 2016, and this is still working with us. And also 03:46.480 --> 03:56.320 the Catalonia and the Barcelona City Government gave us money to keep financing, the maintenance 03:56.320 --> 04:04.160 and the documentation and all these really necessary stuff that are in sexy, but actually what 04:04.160 --> 04:13.200 may that project be sustainable. So this is an example of what this is an example of the agreement 04:13.200 --> 04:20.400 that we had, we saw over the city instance, of course. And this is a highlight from our blog now 04:20.400 --> 04:28.240 that we think that this is like a unique example of this community governance of a free software 04:28.240 --> 04:35.440 as a polypolic, you know. And of course, now this will allow us to have a more sustainable project 04:35.520 --> 04:45.680 on the long term. Okay, so about the roadmap, how the roadmap is defined. Of course, we use this 04:45.680 --> 04:53.680 thing. You may realize that there is a pattern here. So we have a process called the roadmap 04:53.680 --> 04:59.840 process where people can propose new features and actually like public institutions, 04:59.840 --> 05:06.320 implementers, so one may propose us and say, okay, yeah, I would need this feature and I think 05:06.320 --> 05:14.720 that this feature could be beneficial for the whole community, you know. So basically how this process 05:14.720 --> 05:23.600 works, well really bureaucracy, no, because like governance is also bureaucracy, but we try to be transparent, 05:23.600 --> 05:31.840 no, what this means, no. So people can create new proposals, then the product team, we validate 05:32.640 --> 05:38.320 accept this proposal and say, yeah, we are not going to accept this. And then this goes to the planning 05:38.320 --> 05:44.880 phase where an implementer can create, well, first we create an issue and we have, no, and finally, 05:44.880 --> 05:52.800 this is a pull request and it's going to be available on the next released version, no. 05:55.040 --> 06:02.880 And about a so far reliability, one important aspect of this dream is that it's a framework, so it's 06:02.880 --> 06:11.040 actually a model, different models, and also the administrators have lots of possibilities on the 06:11.040 --> 06:16.880 things that they can change in the admin, we try to be not too opinionated because we have 06:16.880 --> 06:22.880 seen that people want to do different kind of mechanisms of proposals, like for instance, 06:22.880 --> 06:29.680 I know how many votes of proposals, how many votes participants can give to proposals and 06:29.680 --> 06:36.480 say, like that, you know. So this is an example of a model that is pretty popular, it's called 06:36.720 --> 06:44.640 term customizer, and it's made by some company from Finland, and it was being financed by 06:44.640 --> 06:53.840 different Finnish municipalities. It's allow admins to actually change the terminology used on the platform. 06:54.960 --> 06:59.200 And this is an example of the platform, this is a this link Barcelona one of the first, 06:59.200 --> 07:04.800 well, the first instance actually, and it's now it's being used for the participatory budgeting 07:04.800 --> 07:11.920 of this mandate, this is the installation of New York City that also they are doing a participatory 07:11.920 --> 07:19.440 budgeting currently, and this is the Brazilian Federal Government instance, it's the biggest 07:19.440 --> 07:25.920 instance of the city, they had, I know, maybe 1.5 or 2 million registered participants. 07:25.920 --> 07:35.120 So the challenge is that we have, are actually like, well, there are lots, no, that's the three 07:35.120 --> 07:41.920 main ones is to actually help do we get financing from institutions outside of Catalonia, 07:41.920 --> 07:47.200 you know, because Barcelona government, Catalonia government, local rate and so on, 07:47.200 --> 07:53.840 we are all from Catalonia, but once we try to reach a government that are actually using the 07:54.800 --> 08:00.560 it's difficult, because we are a Cataline association and we need to research different 08:00.560 --> 08:05.600 formulas and things, strategies on how to actually achieve this. 08:08.160 --> 08:14.640 Other challenge that we have is the roles of the association stepping as theme through the 08:15.600 --> 08:22.080 grants, no, because like, okay, you have a grant for doing something on these three months, but then 08:22.160 --> 08:28.000 after these three months, yeah, you need to keep looking for grants and that's like an effort. 08:28.720 --> 08:35.680 And finally, well, a technical challenge that we have is how can we improve, no, the history 08:35.680 --> 08:45.680 of the updates of the downstream installations. Saying that two months ago, we actually signed an agreement 08:45.680 --> 08:52.240 with the Brazilian government saying, okay, we want to collaborate more, no, it's a memorandum 08:52.240 --> 09:00.800 of understanding, really sexy name, but they're, well, the Brazilian government is actually 09:00.800 --> 09:06.000 recognizing, no, they see them as a digital public good and it's actually the first government 09:06.000 --> 09:11.920 outside of Catalonia that it's, yeah, actually signing an agreement with us, you know, and okay, 09:12.480 --> 09:17.760 involves no public institutions from all over the world, no, and improving the city. 09:19.760 --> 09:37.600 And that's it, just before the slides on 10 minutes, yeah, go ahead. 09:42.080 --> 10:00.720 Okay, so the question is about, yeah, we talk about creating a association for having 10:00.720 --> 10:10.080 independence and then actually signing this agreement, no, I think that the agreement, what it does, 10:10.160 --> 10:18.560 it's actually clarifying, what is the role of the association on all this relation, no, and 10:18.560 --> 10:24.400 it's like putting things in the clear, no, because alternative, what could be, you know, like, 10:24.400 --> 10:30.000 yeah, this is approaching from the city of Barcelona and it stays as a project of the city of Barcelona 10:30.000 --> 10:34.080 and till someone on the city of Barcelona say, yeah, we don't want this anymore, no. 10:35.040 --> 10:40.480 But you're not to say that, I don't know, it's so weak to many years, and we have a lot of 10:40.480 --> 10:46.560 things, all we don't care about this project, and they don't sign an agreement. Yeah, what happened 10:46.560 --> 10:52.240 if they actually decided to do, like, close the thing, no, and the agreement, and so on, I think, 10:52.240 --> 10:59.040 okay, first of all, like, they seem, it's, it's an open source project, you know, so it doesn't, 10:59.040 --> 11:04.720 like, we could always create another thing with another name, you know, like the only thing 11:04.720 --> 11:09.440 that it's like blocking us is like the trademark, you know, but this is something that we could do, 11:09.440 --> 11:14.640 but we obviously don't want to do that, because we want to work together, no, so I think this is, 11:14.640 --> 11:19.520 like, could be like the plan B, hopefully it doesn't happen, no, but it's something that we can 11:19.600 --> 11:24.000 agree with, do, and you press it, can do it. Okay, thanks, App. Thank you. 11:30.000 --> 11:34.080 And thanks, everyone for joining us in death room here, and have safe travel soon.