For folks who couldn't make my first 2025 @fosdem.bsky.social talk Digital Public Goods - Incentivizing Collaboration fosdem.org/2025/schedule/event…

My slides are available here:
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FOSDEM 2025: Digital Public Goods - Incentivizing Collaboration

Digital Public Goods - Incentivizing Collaboration FOSDEM, 5:35pm, Feb 1, 2025 25 minutes, Track: Community, Room: UB5.230 https://fosdem.

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"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…

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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…

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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

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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. 

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