I think it's time, okay? Yeah. We're going to start the last presentation. Think about
for being here, I know that after Nunes on Sundays and Faustem are really hard and challenging,
so thank you for being here. And also thank you for Faustem and they've room to allow us
to speak here. It's a great experience. And thank you for all the volunteers and video guys.
So I'm going to talk about the overcase on the CDM. It's a software that we are doing on Barcelona.
First, I'm going to talk, well, who am I? I'm one of the founders and lead developers of the CDM.
I've been working with open source mainly since 2011. As I'm a hacker, I don't have like a
good for picture of me, but I have a screenshot of my GitHub profile that's basically the same.
So we're going to start with what is the CDM? The CDM is this is a platform for citizen participation
and now people from here know what it is. How many people know what is the CDM?
Okay, great. So what is it used? This is the name dropping slide. It's been used in Barcelona.
New York City, European Commission, Helsinki, France, the deputy and the Senate also used it.
Lots of places. Okay, about the governance. Of course, as it's a platform for governance
organizations, we use the CDM itself for our governments. This is an example of a participatory
space, an assembly and this is the assembly for the CDM association. So a bit of a summary of what
our history was. We started on 2016. It was launched by the City of Barcelona and Catalonia Spain.
And then we realized that we need to take care of the governance of the goal because as you
as all the governments change, no, we didn't want to be closed. The project to be closed once
the government changed. So we made a participatory process with a community of users of the CDM,
implementers, companies that were we did. And then on 2011, we created the CDM Free Software Association.
Afterwards, we signed an agreement with the CDM of Barcelona and other actors to allow us to
actually work with the goal base and to steer the project. And finally, on 2023, we also signed
a renewal of this agreement. Since the beginning, as I mentioned, first we were financed a lot
through Barcelona. We are still being financed a lot through Barcelona, but we realized that of course
we need other actors here if we want to be a big project. So like a few months after we launched
the first version, local red, a consortium of Catalan Municipalities, rich to us, to say, okay,
yeah, we need to rethink and relaunch the project. So other municipalities can actually reuse it.
And they also provide full worker carol since 2016, and this is still working with us. And also
the Catalonia and the Barcelona City Government gave us money to keep financing, the maintenance
and the documentation and all these really necessary stuff that are in sexy, but actually what
may that project be sustainable. So this is an example of what this is an example of the agreement
that we had, we saw over the city instance, of course. And this is a highlight from our blog now
that we think that this is like a unique example of this community governance of a free software
as a polypolic, you know. And of course, now this will allow us to have a more sustainable project
on the long term. Okay, so about the roadmap, how the roadmap is defined. Of course, we use this
thing. You may realize that there is a pattern here. So we have a process called the roadmap
process where people can propose new features and actually like public institutions,
implementers, so one may propose us and say, okay, yeah, I would need this feature and I think
that this feature could be beneficial for the whole community, you know. So basically how this process
works, well really bureaucracy, no, because like governance is also bureaucracy, but we try to be transparent,
no, what this means, no. So people can create new proposals, then the product team, we validate
accept this proposal and say, yeah, we are not going to accept this. And then this goes to the planning
phase where an implementer can create, well, first we create an issue and we have, no, and finally,
this is a pull request and it's going to be available on the next released version, no.
And about a so far reliability, one important aspect of this dream is that it's a framework, so it's
actually a model, different models, and also the administrators have lots of possibilities on the
things that they can change in the admin, we try to be not too opinionated because we have
seen that people want to do different kind of mechanisms of proposals, like for instance,
I know how many votes of proposals, how many votes participants can give to proposals and
say, like that, you know. So this is an example of a model that is pretty popular, it's called
term customizer, and it's made by some company from Finland, and it was being financed by
different Finnish municipalities. It's allow admins to actually change the terminology used on the platform.
And this is an example of the platform, this is a this link Barcelona one of the first,
well, the first instance actually, and it's now it's being used for the participatory budgeting
of this mandate, this is the installation of New York City that also they are doing a participatory
budgeting currently, and this is the Brazilian Federal Government instance, it's the biggest
instance of the city, they had, I know, maybe 1.5 or 2 million registered participants.
So the challenge is that we have, are actually like, well, there are lots, no, that's the three
main ones is to actually help do we get financing from institutions outside of Catalonia,
you know, because Barcelona government, Catalonia government, local rate and so on,
we are all from Catalonia, but once we try to reach a government that are actually using the
it's difficult, because we are a Cataline association and we need to research different
formulas and things, strategies on how to actually achieve this.
Other challenge that we have is the roles of the association stepping as theme through the
grants, no, because like, okay, you have a grant for doing something on these three months, but then
after these three months, yeah, you need to keep looking for grants and that's like an effort.
And finally, well, a technical challenge that we have is how can we improve, no, the history
of the updates of the downstream installations. Saying that two months ago, we actually signed an agreement
with the Brazilian government saying, okay, we want to collaborate more, no, it's a memorandum
of understanding, really sexy name, but they're, well, the Brazilian government is actually
recognizing, no, they see them as a digital public good and it's actually the first government
outside of Catalonia that it's, yeah, actually signing an agreement with us, you know, and okay,
involves no public institutions from all over the world, no, and improving the city.
And that's it, just before the slides on 10 minutes, yeah, go ahead.
Okay, so the question is about, yeah, we talk about creating a association for having
independence and then actually signing this agreement, no, I think that the agreement, what it does,
it's actually clarifying, what is the role of the association on all this relation, no, and
it's like putting things in the clear, no, because alternative, what could be, you know, like,
yeah, this is approaching from the city of Barcelona and it stays as a project of the city of Barcelona
and till someone on the city of Barcelona say, yeah, we don't want this anymore, no.
But you're not to say that, I don't know, it's so weak to many years, and we have a lot of
things, all we don't care about this project, and they don't sign an agreement. Yeah, what happened
if they actually decided to do, like, close the thing, no, and the agreement, and so on, I think,
okay, first of all, like, they seem, it's, it's an open source project, you know, so it doesn't,
like, we could always create another thing with another name, you know, like the only thing
that it's like blocking us is like the trademark, you know, but this is something that we could do,
but we obviously don't want to do that, because we want to work together, no, so I think this is,
like, could be like the plan B, hopefully it doesn't happen, no, but it's something that we can
agree with, do, and you press it, can do it. Okay, thanks, App. Thank you.
And thanks, everyone for joining us in death room here, and have safe travel soon.