thanks for the update, peter! lodewijk
On Mon, Apr 11, 2016 at 3:26 PM, Peter Meyer <[email protected]> wrote: > Public policy colleagues: A proposal instructing U.S. federal government > agencies to release some source code as open-source has been issued for > public comment. The core bit is to aim to release 20% of the custom code > they develop, for a three-year pilot period. > > The proposal and invitation for public comment is here: > https://sourcecode.cio.gov/ > The proposal is 15 pages if viewed as a PDF. It comes from the White > House's Office of Management and Budget (OMB) which can coordinate/instruct > the other agencies. > > Comments are invited in a github-issues format: > https://github.com/whitehouse/source-code-policy/issues > This, helpfully, means one can review how other people see the issues of > interest. > > Today is the last day for comments. I will be commenting favorably. The > proposal has simmered and struggled for a long time; the main hope is to > move forward with something. Anything. (I used to think it was better for > agencies to decide for themselves, but this didn't work. I have watched > for ten years in horror. So now it may be commanded centrally. So be it.) > > I think the key thing to comment is that for the government staff to > officially join in with existing projects like Wikimedia ones is not > difficult and potentially very productive. Whereas, to release own big > unique custom projects is (a) administratively hard, and (b) not broadly > useful, since they aren't part of a previously established open-source > ecology with a known demand for them. > > I will be very interested to see the views of others on the comments list > or by email. > -- peter meyer / user:econterms / Wikimedia DC > > > _______________________________________________ > Publicpolicy mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/publicpolicy > >
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