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by jibbirish 49 days ago
In the Netherlands municipalities have been collaborating for years already to build an open source ecosystem: https://commonground.nl/

We have 342 municipalities, all buying the same apps (from 3 or 4 vendors) to deliver basic services to their citizens. Common Ground aims to replace all of those with open source solutions.
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ramon156 49 days ago
Hey, I would love to contribute to this project. Is there a list of repo's I can take a look at and contribute?

I see some communities, seems like each community has their own setup, some of them have github links.

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jibbirish 49 days ago
The way they go about this is still a bit weird / government like. Individual municipalities write tenders for software companies to contribute to these projects. The Vereniging Nederlandse Gemeente is hosting the specific committees that are in charge of product vision / architecture. But I am not sure if there is a way for individuals to contribute to these projects right now. So the source is Open Source, the process very much not yet.

If you are Dutch and looking to work on awesome gov-tech send me a DM.

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