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For what its worth, open source is en vogue in german government IT at the moment. "Dataport", a government-owned IT-company, has an open-source based project "
by hans1729 5y ago
For what its worth, open source is en vogue in german government IT at the moment. "Dataport", a government-owned IT-company, has an open-source based project "Phoenix", as a first step in this shift of paradigm. This is interesting because Dataport used to be pretty much a windows-shop; despite old and established hierarchies and its special place in the public domain, change is happening.
(Source: I'm working in that project as a consultant)
- Arathorn 5y agoIndependently of gematik's work, Phoenix also uses Matrix as its communication backplane (source: the Matrix team is also consulting on it :)
- hans1729 5y agoI've had the pleasure of working with Ben for a while, cheers from team mav! Wearing my matrix hoodie writing this :)
- toomuchtodo 5y agoCan you get a Matrix hoodie without working on Matrix? :D
- Arathorn 5y agohttps://shop.matrix.org https://shop.matrix.org :D (and yay for Ben - he gets everywhere!)
- toomuchtodo 5y agoThank you so much!
- ltultraweight 5y agoIsn't Phoenix merely rebranding already existing projects like Jitsi Meet and matrix.org? If not, where can this project be publicly inspected?
- hans1729 5y agoThis is why I made the distinction "open-source based". The project isn't simply rebranding though, it builds solutions for customers based on open source components (which is a step in the correct direction). I would like all the repositories to be public, too, but we're not there yet.
- ltultraweight 5y agoI saw on phoenix-werkstatt.de that there are actual contributions back upstream. Even if it appears to not be a Dataport employee, at least some of the funds of the government are going towards improving the projects for everyone. Good stuff.
- germanier 5y agoUnfortunately, at the moment even code access for other public institutions is buried behind many layers of bureaucracy but I have been promised they will start to open up soon enough.
- meibo 5y agoPlease keep it that way! We need open source in government - it's the only way to hold people accountable and make sure that citizens aren't being shafted :) Thanks for your work!