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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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starefossen wrote: post #23
embedding-shape wrote: post #7

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I am living in Spain, and from my point of view, Netherlands is one of the ones doing the most for FOSS in Europe today! It sees much faster real-world adoption of FOSS in ministries and municipalities than other countries, the government seems eager to fund FOSS (again, compared to other countries) and generally be welcoming to the ecosystem. Browsing around, there seems to be lots of FOSS projects funded by money c…

Norwegian Government has a couple of thousand open repos for their code https://norwegian-public-organizations.vercel.app/ Most notably the Labor and Welfare Administration with 3000+ open repos.

Yeah, also pretty dope! Sweden also basically spearheads the whole "open data" thing for a long time too :) Too many great stuff happening across the continent to just say one or two countries are doing everything, in that you're right.

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Mashimo wrote: post #14

> https://code.overheid.nl/RegelRecht/regelrecht > Machine-readable Dutch law execution. regelrecht takes legal texts, encodes them as structured YAML, and runs them as deterministic decision logic. The engine takes a regulation and a set of inputs, evaluates the decision logic, and returns a result with a full explanation trail Can someone explain this to me? Not the technical aspect, but rather a user story or use…

I imagine if a new law is introduced or a change to an existing law is proposed it can auto-check for consistency, collisions with other laws, auto-flag laws that need to be amended together or things like that.

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

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Interesting that they apparently deployed a development version of pre-release v16 of Forgejo, rather than the stable v15, wonder why that is? Don't get me wrong, I love bleeding-edge software as much as the next hacker, but seems wild for something like a central hub for publishing software.

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

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makeitcount wrote: post #38

Related to governance, check this project (not mine), would be great to have more (thoughtful) feedback: Integral – A Federated, Post-Monetary, Cybernetic Cooperative Economic System https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47877819

Doesn't even seem to mention any prior art, there are tons of systems like that deployed and used today already, Decidim is one of them. Why do you keep trying to push someone else's project btw? Is it related to having a code platform meant for open-source in some way?

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

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Post by QuantumNomad_ »

oever wrote: post #5
ivolimmen wrote: post #3

I am Dutch and I am glad they finally started to do some open sourcing. I have worked at different governmental bodies and have been promoting open source for some time now. But as a simple 'added hands for hire' I never got any response to my pleas. I guess it's typical Dutch that we are one of the last to do so.

The government still plans to place the authentication system of all Dutch citizens in USA hands. And interestingly, code.overheid.nl runs from a residential ip address.

> And interestingly, code.overheid.nl runs from a residential ip address.

That’s not what I’m seeing.

IP address is currently 147.181.37.238, which is assigned to ODC-Noord via RIPE.

ODC-Noord is a data centre for national government organisations according to https://www.odc-noord.nl/

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