FYI here's a comment we submitted on behalf of Creative Commons. https://github.com/WhiteHouse/source-code-policy/issues/149 timothy
On Mon, Apr 11, 2016 at 7:02 AM, L.Gelauff <[email protected]> wrote: > 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 >> >> > > _______________________________________________ > Publicpolicy mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/publicpolicy > > -- Invest in an open future. Support Creative Commons today: http://bit.ly/19IjSKl
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