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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 Tangurena2 »

sschueller wrote: post #69
debarshri wrote: post #28

Funny enough, GitLab, has a dutch founder.

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.

Hmm. I work at a state government agency that uses GitLab. Should we be looking for a different source control supplier? I know we host it internally (our agency has a rather strict anti-cloud policy), and do pay some for support, so we might not be in the same situation as the clients/customers using the free version.

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

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Post by brnt »

ramon156 wrote: post #67

Proud dutchie here! I was wondering this morning whether they were going to migrate away from GH. Really glad that they did. I remember applying for a job (at some weird company) to be put up as an open-source contributor for the dutch government last year. The idea was that I was going to build on top of MuleSoft stuff. They ghosted me a day later, despite me having already done these things for the client they need…

> partijgedrag

So happy to see they're ingesting voting data again! They stopped a few years ago (which is also a few elections), which I thought was such a shame. Knowing what representatives actually do, and not just promise, is really the only thing that matters.

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

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vasco wrote: post #35
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.

If such a thing exists (or could exist), I'm certain that my state government agency would benefit greatly from it.

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

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embedding-shape wrote: post #30
oever wrote: post #21

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Their plan is to do nothing to stop the transfer of the system to a USA company. By doing nothing, they are making this happen.

> 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…

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

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Post by victorbjorklund »

whinvik wrote: post #46
starefossen wrote: post #23

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

Funny that its hosted on vercel. Probably because its employee driven rather than top down. Saves all the bureaucracy to get someone to sign a budget item to buy a domain.

Not sure that site in itself is owned and operated by the Norwegian government.
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