2022-06-08 –, OW2con main virtual room
This talk shows how the Standard for Public Code can help you collaborate with public organizations all across the world.
Our goal is to help people developing public-purpose software understand how the Standard for Public Code can help them collaborate. The Standard is of course applicable to everyone developing open source software, and is especially useful if you want other organizations to be able to contribute to your code.
We hope to inspire collaboration across public organizations and show that it is not that hard to create genuinely reusable code.
By applying the Standard, code created for and by governments will not only be reusable and open source on paper, but also in practice.
The talk will also answer the following questions:
- What is public code?
- Why the need for a Standard for Public Code?
The talk will show how the Foundation for Public Code is already applying the Standard to some codebases, and how this has helped those communities.
Jan is a codebase steward at the Foundation for Public Code. He has been a policy advisor on digital issues in the European Parliament for a green MEP, mainly working on the copyright directive. Before that, he ran a consultancy called Open by Default, which helped public organizations use open licenses to publish open data and make open source software. Previously he was the CEO of Wikimedia Sverige after co-founding the chapter and being its chairman.
