Presentation Outline

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   1. SHOW YOUR WORK

   OPEN SOURCING @DFMDATA'S CODE
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   2. OPEN SOURCE?

   WHAT IS

   An ancestor of open journalism, in many ways. 10. It is transparent and open to challenge – including correction, clarification and addition #openjournalism 9:47 AM - 27 Mar 2012 https://speakerdeck.com/pycon2014/hitchhikers-guide-to-free-and-open-source-participation-by-elena-williams Publish our source code with a license for reuse. Similar to Creative Commons.
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   3. WHY SHOULDN'T WE?

   Dispels the magic and reveal how we did things Ongoing projects with realistic expectations of longevity, like crime maps. Platform kind of things. But what we did was primarily discrete and relatively simple, in terms of code. Most coders would say this is preschool kind of stuff. Most journalists would say this rocket science. Cost, but this costs us nothing.
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   4. WHY WE SHOULD

   • Pay it forward. Our work was built on FOSS.
   • Empower DFMers and others
   • Share what we learned the hard way
   • Recoup our investment
   • One final innovation for the industry

   Virtually no risk. To reuse you'd have to set up a server, do your own design, do your own reporting, get your own data. Very small chance of this. But it's valuable for us to be transparent about *how* we do things so others can learn. Think of it like an author would donate her papers to a university.
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   5. WHICH PROJECTS?

   Make a list and group them.
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   6. WHAT SHOULD WE DO?

   Scrub the code for truly proprietary info, as needed. Document. Create a new archive on Github Partner with OpenNews or others to advise, house and promote.
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   7. LET'S SHOW THE WORLD

   SO JOURNALISM CAN BENEFIT