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[ElenaFdR]

Process:

• @ElenaFdR to pursue OpenZaak workshop testimonials
• @nebster, @bvhme ask their contacts
• @lscheske to follow-up and prompt high-level testimonials

[ElenaFdR]

Prioritized during dotvoting at the communications assets for membership workshop, 23 July 2020.

[ElenaFdR]

We've received this spectacular testimonial from OS2:

“The board and secretariat in OS2 have a continued focus on international cooperation and how the open source products in OS2 can be “exported” and used outside of Denmark. In that matter we wish to support/cooperate with Foundation for Public Code because we consider the foundation to be a very strong bid to be the best place for cross-governmental cooperation at European level. We are well aware that for the OS2 portfolio to be able to perform internationally the demands will be higher and this is not a task we can fullfill ourselves. Cooperation with Foundation for Public Code can help OS2 and it can help making the OS2 open source products become available international.”

Rasmus Frey – Chief operation officer, OS2

[ElenaFdR]

Proposal: until we have a new /membership page (#78) up, let's put this on the homepage using the same formatting as Jacco's testimonial on /codebase-stewardship.

[ElenaFdR]

Ger Baron of Amsterdam said this about us on a panel talk:

"[COVID] brings for us [Amsterdam] the necessity to invest substantially not only in software, etc, but also in the skills and people to understand the software. Understanding software is more logical when it's open source because you actually know what's going to happen. So that's why we work with Ben and others. I'm a big fan of his foundation as well, because we governments need people to actually bring in knowledge, bring us together, well actually lead us basically in how to get this not just in a special project, but to make this the new normal within our organizations. In some private sector industries it's all we know to use open source software for your brand software basically. Because more and more it's relevant not only from a principle point of view, but because you want to be open and transparent as a government, you don't want to have closed algorithms, etc. You don't want to have hidden decision making inside the software. And on the other hand, safety and security - obviously, open source is safer and more secure without backdoors, etc."

[lscheske]

Ger Baron of Amsterdam said this about us on a panel talk:

"[COVID] brings for us [Amsterdam] the necessity to invest substantially not only in software, etc, but also in the skills and people to understand the software. Understanding software is more logical when it's open source because you actually know what's going to happen. So that's why we work with Ben and others. I'm a big fan of his foundation as well, because we governments need people to actually bring in knowledge, bring us together, well actually lead us basically in how to get this not just in a special project, but to make this the new normal within our organizations. In some private sector industries it's all we know to use open source software for your brand software basically. Because more and more it's relevant not only from a principle point of view, but because you want to be open and transparent as a government, you don't want to have closed algorithms, etc. You don't want to have hidden decision making inside the software. And on the other hand, safety and security - obviously, open source is safer and more secure without backdoors, etc."

This is great. I suggest to stop/only use the first 4 sentences on our website. Maybe we could make a redacted version and ask Ger for approval?

[bvhme]

That seems like a great idea. Let me know if I need to send him an email.

[lscheske]

@bvhme - a slightly redacted version of the first 4 sentences below: could you ask him to approve this as a testimonial? Or maybe he wants to write something different all together?

"The Covid-19 pandemic reminded the Amsterdam municipality of the necessity to invest substantially not only in software, but also in the skills and people to understand the software. Understanding software is more logical when it's open source because you actually know what's going to happen. That's why we work with The Foundation for Public Code and others. I'm a big fan of the Foundation, because we governments need people to actually bring in knowledge, bring us together, and to make collaboration the new normal within our organizations."

[bvhme]

I've asked him :) :e-mail:

[2045]

You may publish this:

"The foundation's code stewards helped us in a great way to make the step to maintaining our platform code fully open. We had two sessions with code stewards enabling the team to determine the work to be done, making the step to working fully open. Since some time the code is maintained at https://gitlab.com/logius/cloud-native-overheid where we work with more then one team on this code base.

A special thanks to Eric Herman and Jan Ainali Martin Dias d'Ullois - Product Owner, Logius"

[clausmullie]

More testimonial material at https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL_5ziu2gADmC8_79MjcsltFFwLX_MMJ15