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title: "Public Money? Public Code! - Modernising Digital Public Infrastructure"
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date: 2018-07-07
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- english
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- presentation
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tags:
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- PublicCode
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headerimage:
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src: rmll-2018.jpg
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text: Picture of me giving the presentation at RMLL 2018 in Strasbourg
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slides: https://download.fsfe.org/presentations/20180707-mm-RMLL-PMPC.en.pdf
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video: https://www.canalc2.tv/video/15191
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event:
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name: RMLL/LSM 2018
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href: https://rmll2018.info
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At RMLL/Libre Software Meeting 2018 in Strasbourg, I presented the "Public Money, Public Code" campaign to one of Europe's longest-running Free Software conferences. The RMLL/LSM brings together activists, developers, and public sector stakeholders who have been advocating for Free Software since the late 1990s, making it an ideal audience for discussing how to systematically transform public digital infrastructure. The talk built on decades of Free Software advocacy to argue for a new policy paradigm.
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The presentation made the case that when public money pays for software development, the resulting code should be publicly available as Free Software. This isn't just good principle – it's good economics and good governance. I showed how current practices lead to wasteful redundancy, with multiple public bodies independently funding development of similar solutions while being unable to share code. The talk outlined concrete policy changes needed at European, national, and municipal levels to make Public Code the default for publicly funded software development.
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For the RMLL audience, being strong FOSS advocates, the Public Money, Public Code campaign provided a rallying point and policy framework for their efforts. The discussion explored successful examples of public code initiatives, strategies for changing procurement regulations, and how to build coalitions between technical communities and policy makers to drive systemic change.
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