[matsemann]

The Norwegian welfare agency publish most of their code on github: https://github.com/navikt/

It's the organization you use if you're sick, lost your job, where you get your social security etc. Basically a huge behemoth of all kinds of social or labor services.

While most of the code probably has little value for others (2000 different repos), I think it's quite noble that it's public, given it's made with tax payer money and serves our people. And when working there I found it quite cool to work in the open, a sense of pride in publishing everything we were doing. Also a bit funny, just checked the project I started 5 years ago: "last updated 42 minutes ago".

[argulane]

Quite similar to Estonia. Tho they run their own Gitlab instance https://koodivaramu.eesti.ee/explore

And not everything is there. ID Card software is hosted on Github https://github.com/open-eid

[dx034]

I think all countries should use their own instances of gitlab or others. It feels wrong that they all depend on GitHub to publish such important information.

[nixpulvis]

Just curious, since it's been a dream of mine to have public services powered by open software: How often do bugs in the services get reported either, with direct references to the underlying software (function names, line numbers, etc.), or as changesets/PRs with proposal fixes?

Especially for simpler things like style/accessibility issues, I could see this being somewhat common honestly.

[dr_dshiv]

https://publiccode.net/

The Foundation for Public Code: “We help public organizations collectively develop and maintain public code.”

Amazing people behind this org…

[nixpulvis]

Looks like a great concept. Let me know if you ever want to open a Boston location ;)

[gunnihinn]

Iceland does the same: https://github.com/island-is/island.is