Let’s talk about public code

In this fourteenth episode, we talked to Åsa Jagre at the Swedish Agency for Marine and Water Management and Konstantin Ay from Intunio working on a Jitsi plugin for Outlook. We focused on up-stream first development and code collaboration.

Unfortunately, Åsa had a cough, so we are reading her messages from chat in the interview.

Links mentioned in the show:

• Jitsi-Outlook plugin
• Open Source Project Template
• asom collaboration

In this thirteenth episode we talked to Riccardo Iaconelli, working on the publiccode.yml metadata specification. This episode focuses on how it has enabled discoverability of public code codebases and the development of an open source specification.

Links mentioned in the show:

• GitHub organization
• publiccode.yml Standard
• Web editor

In this twelfth episode we talked to Stephen Musoke and Johnblack Kabukye, both working with open source in the health sector in Uganda. This episode focuses on how open source codebases enable them to address the needs they have with costs and sovereignty being deciding factors. The discussion also touches upon some challenges and opportunities specific to the public health sector.
 

In the eleventh episode of Let's talk about public code, we talked to Gijs Hillenius. We talked about policy for open source in the EU, it's development and what's coming up.

In 2021 the European Commission launched an Open Source Program Office and in December they made a decision on the open source licensing and reuse of Commission software.

In the tenth episode of Let's talk about public code, we talked to Leslie Hawthorn from Red Hat. We talked about public code, communities and communication.

Red Hat delivers the operating system Red Hat Enterprise Linux. They also have a broad portfolio, including hybrid cloud infrastructure, middleware, agile integration, cloud-native application development, and management and automation solutions. Read more at: redhat.com

In the ninth episode of Let's talk about public code, we talk to Bastien Guerry from Etalab and the platform for French public data (data.gouv.fr).
We discuss why and how Etalab, as a state agency, engages with the French open source ecosystem.

Etalab is a department of the direction interministérielle du numérique (DINUM), which coordinates the design and implementation of the State's strategy in the data domain.
Read more at: https://www.etalab.gouv.fr/

In the eighth episode of Let's talk about public code, and our first anniversary, we talked to Gabriella Gómez-Mont from Experimentalista.

With a background as Chief Creative Officer for Mexico City and founder of Laboratorio para la Ciudad, the award-wining experimental arm and creative think tank of the Mexico City government, alongside engagements in the Netherlands, UK, USA, South Korea and Canada, Gabriella have global perspective on public code.

We also revealed a new strategic council for the Foundation for Public Code, and Gabriella is our first person on it.

In the seventh episode of Let's talk about public code, we talk to Mauko Quiroga from OpenFisca. We discussed what problems OpenFisca solves and how it has become so widespread - used in at least four continents!

OpenFisca is an open source platform to write rules as code. OpenFisca was released under a free software license in November 2011. Etalab in France started using OpenFisca in 2014 and soon became a major contributor. Today it is used in many countries all over the world. Read more at: https://openfisca.org/en/

In the sixth episode of Let's talk about public code, we talk to Leonardo Favario from the Italian national government's Department for Digital Transformation. We discuss the state of open source software in Italian public organizations.

The Department for Digital Transformation - was born to build the “operating system” of Italy, a series of fundamental components on top of which both simpler and more efficient services for citizens, public administration and businesses, and innovative digital products could be built.

Publiccode.yml: https://github.com/publiccodeyml/publiccode.yml

Developers Italia: https://developers.italia.it/

Designers Italia: https://designers.italia.it/

Software catalogue: https://developers.italia.it/en/software