Free and open source software is software that can be classified as both free software and open-source software. That is, anyone is freely licensed to use, copy, study, and change the software in any way, and the source code is openly shared so that people are encouraged to voluntarily improve the design of the software.
GCF is a process of collecting funds from multiple sources to finance a project or venture. It involves pooling resources from different sources, such as individuals, businesses, and other organizations, to create a larger fund for a specific purpose.
A community of practice and a conference to identify what exists & what is missing in the open agricultural technology landscape. “The technologies that produce our food and the data about our food system should be public, and enable control by the farms and farmers that produce it. Together, we can collectively address the problems which prevent the creation of advanced, high quality open technology and its adoption.”
GODAN is a United Nations initiative created out of the Open Government Partnership Conference in October 2013 following 2012 G8 discussions. GODAN supports the proactive sharing of open data to make information about agriculture and nutrition available, accessible and usable to deal with the urgent challenge of ensuring world food security. GODAN promotes collaboration to harness the growing volume of data generated by new technologies to solve long-standing problems and to benefit farmers and the health of consumers.
The Global Open Science Hardware (GOSH) movement seeks to reduce barriers between diverse creators and users of scientific tools to support the pursuit and growth of knowledge. GOSH principles are: be accessible, make science better, be ethical, change the culture of science, democratize science, have no high priests, empower people, have no black boxes, create impactful tools, allow multiple futures for science.
The GNU General Public License (GPL) is a computer software copyleft license. This license lets the user of the software use a program in many of the same ways as if it were public domain. They can use it, change it, and copy it. They can also sell or give away copies of the program with or without any changes they made to it. The license lets them do this as long as they agree to follow the terms of the license.
A hack is an unusual assembly of available components to address a particular challenge. A hack is an individual effort and creates an isolated workable solution. A hack is the basis for empowerment and innovation using global knowledge and local production. A tool is any workable hack that has been tested and replicated over time, and by other parties. A tool becomes a tool through documentation and communication. A tool can be a physical object, or a method or framework that can be documented (i.e. software).
Observations from multiple sources can be combined with user generated data to provide high fidelity digital provenance to both environmental claims and practice completion.
Some groups of people are identified in Farm Bill legislation and in USDA policy as being Historically Underserved (HU). Members of these groups have been historically underserved by, or subject to discrimination in, Federal policies and programs. Four groups are defined by USDA as “Historically Underserved,” including farmers or ranchers who are: Beginning; Socially Disadvantaged; Veterans; and Limited Resource.
The Hub and Network Working Group brings together various organizations that have an ability to groundtruth the work of the agricultural technology ecosystem that the OpenTEAM community is creating. This group provides input on the hub experience and helps improve the hub and network model. This group supports the process of onboarding new Hubs and Networks.
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