* The Catholic Open Source Manifesto ,
wiki.p2pfoundation.net/Catho…
Collated by Marco Fioretti:
"the most important points of the Catholic OS Manifesto (”M”) and CDCF Bylaws (”B”), rearranged and labeled by me for easier reference:
M-1: The Church’s social teaching offers a compelling vision for lifting up human dignity: a digital commons to serve the common good, strengthen families, democratize economic opportunity, inspire new evangelism, and empower human solidity.
M-2: Technological products are not neutral, for they create a framework which ends up conditioning lifestyles and shaping social possibilities.
M-3: We build against the reduction of the person to a data point or a mere instrument of production.
M-4: We cannot allow algorithms to limit or condition respect for human dignity, or to exclude... the hope that people are able to change.
M-5: [We also] commit to a human-centered pace of change... [and] advocate for a digital environment that respects the natural rhythms of human life and the “analog” requirements of a healthy soul... [because] “Leisure is a form of that stillness that is necessary preparation for accepting reality; only the person who is still can hear. -- Josef Pieper, Leisure, the Basis of Culture (1948)”
M-6: The Catholic Digital Commons is a “builder commons.”... Across countless repositories, there are tools built in the quiet of parish life - identity systems, liturgical calendars, and workflow engines- awaiting the nurture of a supportive community... Our mission is to aggregate, vet, and communalize these gifts. We transform scattered code into a durable architectural spine that outlasts any single volunteer, providing the Church with a discoverable and adoptable commons of open infrastructure.
M-7: [We want to preserve] each institution’s independent ability to use, contribute to, and govern its own data and tools.
M-8: We must learn to speak the language of technology to carry the Gospel into the digital age.
M-9: To guide our development, we adopt the full “algor-ethical” vision of the Rome Call for AI Ethics."
(
mfioretti.substack.com/p/two…)