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Soft launch of open-source code platform for government

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Re: Soft launch of open-source code platform for government

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Post by Nemo_bis »

newsclues wrote: post #8

Is there a network or organization for the coordination of government open source projects? I love the idea of my city, region or nation (or planet) working to solve a problem and releasing the tool to the public. I just don't want every government to duplicate all the same work, some duplication and competition is fine. But the idea that different places have different specialities etc....

If by "coordination" you mean central planning, not.

There are things such as sharing best practices and other resources. An example is https://standard.publiccode.net/ and https://new.digitalpublicgoods.net/ .

And of course many efforts towards a shared funding infrastucture, see also https://fosdem.org/2026/schedule/event/KES3TH-funding_europe...

Re: Soft launch of open-source code platform for government

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Post by dkga »

sam_lowry_ wrote: post #51
touwer wrote: post #41

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Love it! All European countries should have one

Heh, here you go: http://mxmap.be https://mxmap.ch/ https://kommune-epost-norge.netlify.app/ for Norway and https://swedish-mail-dependency.netlify.app/ for Sweden. France even has an official map of this kind, with publicly visible recommendations: https://suiteterritoriale.anct.gouv.fr/conformite/cartograph... Disclaimer: I made mxmap.be after seeing Swiss ant Dutch counterparts. I did not look at MX records only b…

Any recommendations / lessons learned when building this? I would love to give it a go for Brazil if one doesn't already exist around the time of my holidays in June/July.

Re: Soft launch of open-source code platform for government

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Post by dkga »

noirscape wrote: post #42
embedding-shape wrote: post #17

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None of those things make "The government still plans to place the authentication system of all Dutch citizens in USA hands" a fair characterization, it doesn't seem to be true by any measures, the government has no such plans, unless you can point me to some public session/document that shows that this is actually the plan?

Since a lot of this discussion is talking around the actual situation, let me try and explain it in more detail. The dutch government has an authentication system called DigiD. It's effectively an OAuth protocol for government sites, and one of the few ways in which the Dutch government has centralized IT. Every dutch citizen can get access to it, and probably will need it at some point to deal with the government (p…

Curious about how exactly does Kyndryl (or Solvinity for that matter) plan to monitize citizen data.

Re: Soft launch of open-source code platform for government

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Post by moi2388 »

embedding-shape wrote: post #17
moi2388 wrote: post #9

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It is a fair characterisation. They can access the data, as their data protection officer warned about, it hereby falls under US law, they have to give data when requested, and can shut it down at any time.

None of those things make "The government still plans to place the authentication system of all Dutch citizens in USA hands" a fair characterization, it doesn't seem to be true by any measures, the government has no such plans, unless you can point me to some public session/document that shows that this is actually the plan?

It does. The government is not stopping this takeover, and the authentication system is going to an American company.

Rather strange how adamant you are in your position given that you clearly didn’t look into this at all.

https://www.tweedekamer.nl/zoeken?qry=Solvinity&form_build_i...

Re: Soft launch of open-source code platform for government

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Post by moi2388 »

fragmede wrote: post #63
embedding-shape wrote: post #30

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> Their plan is to do nothing to stop the transfer of the system to a USA company And you have concrete proof that this is indeed the plan, stated by the government as the official position, or this is based on your own extrapolation of rumors? The amount of misinformation that any story related to any European country seems to pull in is crazy, seems to be something about the continent that makes some parts of HN fe…

C'mon, be nice, they read a Russian propaganda post and are repeating it as a fact they earnestly believe. We can't all see through their lies.

No, we follow the actual governmental debates. Are you stupid?!

Re: Soft launch of open-source code platform for government

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Post by sam_lowry_ »

dkga wrote: post #133
sam_lowry_ wrote: post #51

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Heh, here you go: http://mxmap.be https://mxmap.ch/ https://kommune-epost-norge.netlify.app/ for Norway and https://swedish-mail-dependency.netlify.app/ for Sweden. France even has an official map of this kind, with publicly visible recommendations: https://suiteterritoriale.anct.gouv.fr/conformite/cartograph... Disclaimer: I made mxmap.be after seeing Swiss ant Dutch counterparts. I did not look at MX records only b…

Any recommendations / lessons learned when building this? I would love to give it a go for Brazil if one doesn't already exist around the time of my holidays in June/July.

Just take the source, and ask your LLM to do the Brazilian version. It should not take more than a couple hours, including manual checks.

Do not forget to minimize the geojson (there is even a web-based service for that) and to enable compression in your web server.

Re: Soft launch of open-source code platform for government

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Post by debarshri »

jillesvangurp wrote: post #123
sschueller wrote: post #69

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Gitlab has become quite hostile and I would not be surprise if they stop supporting their open source version. Even if you want to pay, the starting price is quite high and there is only one price now and for everything else you need to make a "deal" with them.

Enshittification is well on its way to being completed there.

Someones shit is someones money, yo!
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