#gdsteam — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #gdsteam, aggregated by home.social.
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I've signed this open letter asking NHS England to keep its code open.
> Code paid for with public money should be open to the public. This principle is enshrined in the UK Government Design Principles and the NHS Service Standard. It is now being walked back. We are signing this to restate the case.
Please consider signing, particularly if you've ever contributed to UK public-sector software.
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I've signed this open letter asking NHS England to keep its code open.
> Code paid for with public money should be open to the public. This principle is enshrined in the UK Government Design Principles and the NHS Service Standard. It is now being walked back. We are signing this to restate the case.
Please consider signing, particularly if you've ever contributed to UK public-sector software.
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I've signed this open letter asking NHS England to keep its code open.
> Code paid for with public money should be open to the public. This principle is enshrined in the UK Government Design Principles and the NHS Service Standard. It is now being walked back. We are signing this to restate the case.
Please consider signing, particularly if you've ever contributed to UK public-sector software.
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I've signed this open letter asking NHS England to keep its code open.
> Code paid for with public money should be open to the public. This principle is enshrined in the UK Government Design Principles and the NHS Service Standard. It is now being walked back. We are signing this to restate the case.
Please consider signing, particularly if you've ever contributed to UK public-sector software.
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I've signed this open letter asking NHS England to keep its code open.
> Code paid for with public money should be open to the public. This principle is enshrined in the UK Government Design Principles and the NHS Service Standard. It is now being walked back. We are signing this to restate the case.
Please consider signing, particularly if you've ever contributed to UK public-sector software.
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Coding in the open: so many benefits; so few downsides!
https://gds.blog.gov.uk/2017/09/04/the-benefits-of-coding-in-the-open/
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> Public services are built with public money. So unless there’s a good reason not to do so, the code they’re based on should be made available for people to reuse and build on.
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Point 12 of the GOV.UK Service Standard:
> Make new source code open
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> Make all new source code open and reusable, and publish it under appropriate licences. Or if this is not possible, provide a convincing explanation of why this cannot be done for specific subsets of the source code.https://www.gov.uk/service-manual/service-standard/point-12-make-new-source-code-open
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A week late, but here are our #weeknotes for last week which was a break between the project at the Government Digital Service and and a new (to us) project at NHS Digital.
They include a video of the GFR theme song played live at the Albert Hall!
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A busy week at GFR to round off the year!
* New client project at #gdsteam working on #govuk publishing 💼
* Value propositions for #jamcoop 🍓
* Mocha library release ☕️
* CoTech website revamp 🎨
* #codeclub up and running 🤖
* Mission Patch bug fix 🚀
* Dotfiles on a new laptop 💻🎄Merry Christmas🎄 and a 🍾Happy New Year🍾!
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A busy week at GFR to round off the year!
* New client project at #gdsteam working on #govuk publishing 💼
* Value propositions for #jamcoop 🍓
* Mocha library release ☕️
* CoTech website revamp 🎨
* #codeclub up and running 🤖
* Mission Patch bug fix 🚀
* Dotfiles on a new laptop 💻🎄Merry Christmas🎄 and a 🍾Happy New Year🍾!
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A busy week at GFR to round off the year!
* New client project at #gdsteam working on #govuk publishing 💼
* Value propositions for #jamcoop 🍓
* Mocha library release ☕️
* CoTech website revamp 🎨
* #codeclub up and running 🤖
* Mission Patch bug fix 🚀
* Dotfiles on a new laptop 💻🎄Merry Christmas🎄 and a 🍾Happy New Year🍾!
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A busy week at GFR to round off the year!
* New client project at #gdsteam working on #govuk publishing 💼
* Value propositions for #jamcoop 🍓
* Mocha library release ☕️
* CoTech website revamp 🎨
* #codeclub up and running 🤖
* Mission Patch bug fix 🚀
* Dotfiles on a new laptop 💻🎄Merry Christmas🎄 and a 🍾Happy New Year🍾!
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A busy week at GFR to round off the year!
* New client project at #gdsteam working on #govuk publishing 💼
* Value propositions for #jamcoop 🍓
* Mocha library release ☕️
* CoTech website revamp 🎨
* #codeclub up and running 🤖
* Mission Patch bug fix 🚀
* Dotfiles on a new laptop 💻🎄Merry Christmas🎄 and a 🍾Happy New Year🍾!
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> ‘Significant exposure’: AWS outage exposed UK state’s £1.7bn reliance on tech giant
Although the GOV.UK PaaS [1] was initially built on AWS, it used Terraform with the intention of using other providers, but then it was decommissioned [2] - perhaps it’s worth reviving…?
[1]: https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/platform-as-a-service/platform-as-a-service
[2]: https://gds.blog.gov.uk/2022/07/12/why-weve-decided-to-decommission-gov-uk-paas-platform-as-a-service/ -
> Ed Miliband says it is ‘possible’ that UK government should leave X
Why is this so hard? A Mastodon instance for GOV.UK seems like a no-brainer...