[PublicPolicy] Open Sourcing Government Code

[Matthias Kirschner]

Hello Shimon, Hello all, 

Before I reply just a quick introduction as suggested by Patrick: My
name is Matthias and I work for the Free Software Foundation Europe. I
am involved in talking about software freedom to people from the public
administration and politicians since 2004 and I am happy to have more
exchange with other organisations around the world about this. If you
are interested you can find more background in the link in my e-mail
signature.  

* Shimon Shore [2020-05-27 18:02 +0200]:

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> Why should a government open source their code?

That's a question we received a lot during the years. Meanwhile as a
first step we often use this short 3:37 minute video on
https://publiccode.eu/#about available in English, French, German,
Italian, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish, and we would love to have more
languages. (The Open Letter there is also supported by many
organisations whom I suspect here on the list
https://publiccode.eu/openletter/ .)

After this initial argumentation about the "why" we often use the
brochure: https://fsfe.org/campaigns/publiccode/brochure (in English,
German, Czech, and Brazilian Portuguese) providing some more background
about software freedom, some examples, etc. 

Hope this is helpful, 

Best regards,
Matthias 

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