help, please: I've been asked about government-led #opensource projects, and their best practices.
not an area I know much about these days: who would be good people/organisations to talk to about current work in this area?
thanks for any pointers
@guido good idea - thanks
prototypefund in Germany
https://prototypefund.de/
Try to ping the folks from Corona Warn app
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corona-Warn-App
@mwfc thanks for those
@glynmoody I recommend @jamesvasile and his colleague Karl Fogel at Open Tech Strategies https://opentechstrategies.com/ who have a ton of experience in this area.
@brainwane @jamesvasile great - thanks
@ingo_wichmann vaguely - will take a look - thanks
@glynmoody Hello! My firm (Open Tech Strategies) has done a lot of this with a variety of gov agencies. It's a complex area with unique constraints and I'd be happy to talk to you about some of it and try point you at folks doing it well.
@jamesvasile thanks very much; this isn't for me, but for an academic research project looking into the question (and nothing to do with me, but I'm trying to hehlp). do you have an email I could pass on to them so they can follow up?
@glynmoody Sure thing. james AT opentechstrategies.com
@jamesvasile many thanks, I'll pass that on
@glynmoody GDS (github.com/alphagov) have been big on an "open by default" approach, an example being petition.parliament.uk which is at github.com/alphagov/e-petitions complete with instructions for spinning up your own instance
@zbrown thanks, yes, GDS already on my list
@glynmoody Italy is doing great work in this area
@reed any links or names you could suggest please?
@glynmoody teamdigitale.governo.it, they've been a radical force, very interesting approach
@glynmoody
This might be something interesting for @bzg ?
@glynmoody https://archive.fosdem.org/2018/schedule/event/community_italy_most_hacker_friendly_country/ this talk from a couple years back has some details to get you started
@reed grazie mille...
@glynmoody you will get many hints at the free software foundation website https://www.fsf.org
use ethics, do libre and not just open source
Server run by the main developers of the project 
It is not focused on any particular niche interest - everyone is welcome as long as you follow our code of conduct!
@glynmoody Joinup/OSOR used to be a good resource for this. Haven't checked recently though
https://joinup.ec.europa.eu/collection/open-source-observatory-osor