Foundation for Public Code

We talked to Liv Marte Nordhaug from the Digital Public Goods Alliance in our latest episode of Let's talk about public code. An energizing chat with deep dives into funding questions, what roles the public sector should play in open source and more.

https://blog.publiccode.net/news/2024/03/12/episode-sixteen-of-lets-talk-about-public-code.html

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Please give your feedback before March 8 on why the UN's new Global Digital Compact should explicitly mention digital public goods (public purpose open source digital solutions).

The form takes less than 5 minutes to complete. You can read more about why this matters in the Digital Public Goods Alliance 's post: https://digitalpublicgoods.net/blog/co-shaping-our-digital-future-advocating-for-the-inclusion-of-digital-public-goods-within-the-global-digital-compact/

Please feel free to reuse the answers we provided (adapted from the DPGA's template): https://write.publiccode.net/pads/digital-public-compact-feedback

As the European chapter of the Foundation for Public code winds down, what's next?

1. The North American chapter of the Foundation for Public Code will continue to move forward with an expanding set of project-based initiatives and collaborations with public administrations.

2. The Foundation will continue to participate in policy conversations around the growing ecosystem of codebase stewardship organizations at the European level.

Read more 📢
https://blog.publiccode.net/news/2024/02/28/changes-at-the-europe-office.html

📢 An important update from the Foundation for Public Code

We're winding down our European office because our existing financial model has not proved to be sustainable.

All of the full-time staff associated with our European office are being laid off.

Our North American chapter will continue to pursue project-based initiatives and collaborations that drive the open source ecosystem in public administrations forward.

Read more 🚀

https://blog.publiccode.net/news/2024/02/28/changes-at-the-europe-office.html

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We're thrilled to be at #Stateofopencon #SOOCon24! 🎉 Come say hi and grab your limited copies of Standard for Public Code and Governance Games - available while supplies last! Don't miss out.

The video (and slides) for the introduction talk of our #FOSDEM devroom Public Code and Digital Public Goods are now available: https://fosdem.org/2024/schedule/event/fosdem-2024-3486-introduction-to-the-public-code-and-digital-public-goods-devroom/
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It was a pleasure!