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  ramon156
  Proud 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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  ivolimmen
  I am Dutch and I am glad they finally started to do some open sourcing. I have worked at different governmental bodies and have been promoting open source for some time now. But as a simple 'added hands for hire' I never got any response to my pleas. I guess it's typical Dutch that we are one of the last to do so.
• regexorcist
  Great project, seems off to a good a start with its first HN hug of death. Meanwhile GitHub greets me this morning with the banner "Don't worry if you have missing PRs at the moment, data isn't lost".
• luplex
  In Germany, we have the similar portal https://opencode.de (no relation to the coding agent)It's built on Gitlab and does everything you need your git to do.They also provide hardened base container images at https://container.gov.de
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  Mashimo
  > https://code.overheid.nl/RegelRecht/regelrecht> Machine-readable Dutch law execution. regelrecht takes legal texts, encodes them as structured YAML, and runs them as deterministic decision logic. The engine takes a regulation and a set of inputs, evaluates the decision logic, and returns a result with a full explanation trailCan someone explain this to me? Not the technical aspect, but rather a user story or use case, maybe with example. I can't really wrap my head around it. Thanks in advanced.
• brianwmunz
  This is interesting. Reminds me of the W3C traceability work a few years back that I was briefly involved with... main focus was defining agreed upon vocab for interoperability across supply chains. Never thought of the same approach being used for public policy, but it's an interesting idea... politics is an area where clear communication and definition is important. That said, vocab tends to change way less than public policy does, so amendments and revisions seem like they'd be tough to manage?
• thomasfl
  Next step is to use this for laws and legislations. Do you have a proposal for new law? Make a pull request!
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  theNailz
  Dark mode is a straight up nightmare with dark purple text on a dark background.
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  pcoyne
  Is it common for government to use open source software? Here even just trying to hire someone to manage that would be hard so you almost have to outsource
• zkmon
  Github, Java, Python, Whatsapp, Gmail, SWIFT, DNS, Cloud infra, Appstore, Playstore - all can become tools in the hands of powers.
• helsinkiandrew
  Forgejo was discussed here last year:https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42753523 (269 comments)
• tgv
  Some cleaning up is probably required. I opened the "regelrecht" repo, and it contains a bunch of links and references to github.
• smrtfckrr
  The day government moves away from proprietary software and extyernal services (especially cloud storage holy god) must come. I'll be here for it
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  alexfromapex
  They're going to have to work on the i18n. It defaulted to English but the entire page except like 3 words are in some other language.
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  robertlagrant
  UK government has a list[0] of over 17000 OSS projects it has created.[0] https://govbrowse.uk
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  embedding-shape
  Interesting that they apparently deployed a development version of pre-release v16 of Forgejo, rather than the stable v15, wonder why that is? Don't get me wrong, I love bleeding-edge software as much as the next hacker, but seems wild for something like a central hub for publishing software.
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  makeitcount
  Related to governance, check this project (not mine), would be great to have more (thoughtful) feedback:Integral – A Federated, Post-Monetary, Cybernetic Cooperative Economic Systemhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47877819
• gib444
  Is that an identical blue to gov.uk ? ;)And also a very similar "was this page helpful?"It's ok, we like the Dutch lolWe'll take the imitation as a form of flattery ;)
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  maelito
  Same tech as Codeberg ?
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  debarshri
  Funny enough, GitLab, has a dutch founder.
• Frieren
  I hope it succeeds and helps to grow open software alternatives in Europe.We need technology to serve citizens instead of the other way around. We do not need European versions of big-tech because the resulting oligarchy will be as bad.
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  souravroy78
  I'm not clear on the actual use case how can this be leveraged?
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  newsclues
  Is there a network or organization for the coordination of government open source projects?I love the idea of my city, region or nation (or planet) working to solve a problem and releasing the tool to the public. I just don't want every government to duplicate all the same work, some duplication and competition is fine. But the idea that different places have different specialities etc....
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  sam_lowry_
  There's not much here https://code.overheid.nl/explore/repos but good luck anyway.
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