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I am speaking with Maurice Hendriks at #FOSDEM:

“Procurement Is the Biggest Form of Fundraising for FLOSS”
Track: Funding the FOSS Ecosystem 

Thesis: donations are optional and fragile. Procurement is structural. If public buyers require open deliverables and upstream work, they create durable funding for maintenance and security.

Event: fosdem.org/2026/schedule/event… 
“Public Money, Public Code” context: publiccode.eu/en/ 

#FOSDEM #FOSS #OpenSource #Procurement #PublicMoneyPublicCode


Public Money, Public Code

Public Money, Public Code - A campaign for releasing publicly financed software as Free Software
publiccode.eu
#foss #opensource #fosdem #publicmoneypubliccode #procurement

#foss #opensource #fosdem #digitalpublicgoods #procurement #govtech

#a11y #vpat #procurement #acr

"if we don’t regroup as a civic tech community and reengage on meaningful procurement reforms, I’m pessimistic that we’ll make much progress on improving the quality of government digital services." civic.io/2023/05/16/requiem-fo…

#CivicTech #DigitalServices #Procurement #CfASummit


Requiem for Procurement Reform

Much of the work that is done to build, deliver, and support government digital services comes from private vendors. It’s naive to think that we’ll ever improve these services as much a…
Civic Innovations
#civictech #procurement #digitalservices #cfasummit

I like this potential change for US federal government contractors, would like to see this more broadly implemented - govexec.com/management/2022/11… - we need to see that our incentives line up with #ClimateAction

#procurement #government


Here’s What the Contracting Community Thinks of the New Proposed Rule on Climate Reporting  

The proposed rule is part of the Biden administration’s larger environmental agenda, but it comes with costs for contractors. 
Courtney Bublé (Government Executive)
#climateaction #government #procurement

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