This talk argues that using open standards in an open source project improves its quality and shareability by fostering better communication between creators and consumers. Open standards also guide technology development by enabling diversity and equity. The talk encourages the use of open standards to make open source projects more understandable and shareable, or to showcase how a project complies with standards.

2. TL;DR
This is a talk about open source, and everything you need to be proud of your repository.
In this talk I argue that by using open standards, an open source project improves its quality and
shareability, since such standards exist to foster better communication between creators and
consumers of the project. Most importantly, open standards guide technology development by gently
enforcing space for diversity and equity.
If you share my admiration for standards, optimistic that this common agreement is capable of
making the world a little bit better; if you want to improve your messy project no one understands to
make it more shareable; or if you just want to show off how cool you are because you have the most
compliant repositories, this talk is for you.
*This lecture was giving during the Open Source 101 on March 29th, 2022
**Recording available at:

28. ● Open Source Initiative https://opensource.org/
● Open Source Guide https://opensource.guide/
● CHAOSS Community https://chaoss.community/
● Linux Foundation Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion in Open Source 2021
https://www.linuxfoundation.org/wp-content/uploads/LFResearch_DEISurvey_ResultsDeck_121321.pdf
● FOSS Backstage talks
○ Demystifying Open Standards: how Open Source and Open Standards
complement each other, Chet Ensign
○ Surviving large online communities with conciseness and clarity, Bertrand
Delacretaz
○ Does open source need its own Priority of Constituencies?, Tobie Langel