alt Hacker NewsProud dutchie here! I was wondering this morning whether they were going to migrate away from GH. Really glad that they did.
I remember applying for a job (at some weird company) to be put up as an open-source contributor for the dutch government last year. The idea was that I was going to build on top of MuleSoft stuff. They ghosted me a day later, despite me having already done these things for the client they needed me for. I would advise anyone that is looking for OS contributors to not out-source them through companies, as the models don't really align.
Nowadays I'm communicating with people in Utrecht to get partijgedrag to a newer level (the current one is kind of weak). I would love to build some tooling on top of our government APIs, as well. I don't think people realize how much internal tooling is being built with the idea to release them to the public. It's really cool to see.
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One of the projects I work on, OWF, has great engagement with our open source efforts from Dutch companies and NGOs.
> I was wondering this morning whether they were going to migrate away from GH.
In the context of other commentary today with various people migrating off of github...
is there an event prompting this, or were you thinking of it more in the general vein of European governments trying to reduce dependency on American services?
> partijgedrag
So happy to see they're ingesting voting data again! They stopped a few years ago (which is also a few elections), which I thought was such a shame. Knowing what representatives actually do, and not just promise, is really the only thing that matters.
NLnet is also a great Dutch initiative. It's great to see that smaller, more nimble countries are leading the way in Open Source and digital independence.