Let's talk about public code

In this sixteenth episode, we are joined by Liv Mart Nordhaug, the Chief Executive Officer of the Digital Public Goods Alliance. We will delve into the core functions of the Alliance, elucidate the criteria and process for recognizing digital public goods, and explore the profound impact of open source ethos on digital innovation. From the 50-in-5 initiative to the ambitious goal o

In this fifteenth episode, we delve deep into the fascinating world of software institutionalization with our guest, Astor Nummelin, the executive director of Open Forum Europe. Recorded in The Hague, this discussion navigates through the evolving landscape of open technologies intersecting with public policy.Astor sheds light on the journey of Open Forum Europe, a think tank pione

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 pluginOpen

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 organizationpubliccode.yml StandardWeb 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 sect

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, its 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 aut

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 Sta

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, So

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