Minor report from the trenches of free software development, but a project for Danish local authorities I've been heavily involved with the last few years (since 2015, getting up to speed since 2017) made it to the Joinup site:
https://joinup.ec.europa.eu/collection/open-source-observatory-osor/news/authoritative-information Basically, it's about something as bureaucratic as maintaining authoritative organisation hierarchies, e.g. for local authorities (which the tools was specifically made to support). Ideally, all onboarding etc. of new staff could be done in this tool with integrations in place to allow automatic access to other systems the employees would need. Or, as it says in the article: "OS2mo keeps tabs on the hierarchical links between units, manages lists of employees, per unit, project and task. It provides a management interface that shows for each unit, department, project team and person who is responsible for what, who else is involved, and which IT systems are being used. The information is easily exchanged with access directories and other IT management systems, helping to create, change and manage roles in an organisation, and manage user rights and access rights. And then, OS2mo can also work as an organisation’s address book, displaying contact details and presence information." What is also interesting is that as small as this tool is, we also hope it can serve as a door opener for other free software, which has *not* otherwise been a priority for Danish local authorities. In order to run this system, based as it is on PostgreSQL, Flask and Python (and some frontend stuff) the municipalities need to provide a GNU/Linux server, and for many of our customers this has been a first and a struggle with their own IT departments. I'm sorry if people find this announcement off-topic for this list, but I can't help but be a bit excited to see a project I've been working on for so long getting ready to go out there - and hopefully open more doors for free software in the municipalities, as they see that it works and is much cheaper than the proprietary systems they normally use for these things. Best regards, Carsten
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