[PublicPolicy] Websites for Government Open Source Code

[Shimon Shore]

Very simple and nicely done.

I am hoping we can set up something similar here. We will definitely consider using what you have done.


> -----Original Message-----
> From: Bastien Guerry <bastien.guerry at data.gouv.fr>
> Sent: Monday, June 01, 2020 11:46 PM
> To: Arfon Smith <arfon.smith at gmail.com>
> Cc: Shimon Shore <ShimonS at most.gov.il>;
> publicpolicy at lists.opensource.org
> Subject: Re: [PublicPolicy] Websites for Government Open Source Code
> 
> Hi,
> 
> Arfon Smith <arfon.smith at gmail.com> writes:
> 
> > https://github.com/github/government.github.com/blob/gh-pages/
> > _data/governments.yml so it might be possible to build a subset of the
> > list you're looking for programatically.
> 
> Here is how we build code.etalab.gouv.fr:
> 
> - we list GitHub/GitLab organizations in a bare txt file:
>   https://github.com/DISIC/politique-de-contribution-open-
> source/blob/master/comptes-organismes-publics
> 
> - with this list as an input, we collect data about repos:
>   https://github.com/etalab/data-codes-sources-fr
> 
> - then we use this data to run code.etalab.gouv.fr (mostly a
>   frontend): https://github.com/etalab/code.etalab.gouv.fr
> 
> All these parts are under a free software license, I'd be happy to assist
> anyone in setting up a similar frontend for her country -- working on the code
> to make it more generic, if needed.
> 
> Best,
> 
> --
>  Bastien Guerry