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The closest we get is something like USDS, which then gets hijacked in to DOGE.

Open source software built and supported by a national government is inspiring. Are there more examples of this I'm not aware of? I hope so.



The UK has Government Digital Services (GDS), which has built and open sourced all the good bits of gov.uk: https://github.com/alphagov


It’s been happening pretty consistently in France.

The cops are rolling their own distro :)

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/GendBuntu

I think it’s wise. Not idea if it’s good


Open source repositories of the Dutch government:

https://oss.developer.overheid.nl/repositories


I have a scraper that covers open source govtech I keep meaning to tidy up...

https://govtech-report.cloud/


Ghidra is a fine example from the US government.


there was 18f too :(




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