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• Notes from the Standard for Public Code community call - 26 March 2024

  Moving the Standard for Public Code towards community governance

• Episode sixteen of Let's talk about public code! - Liv Marte Nordhaug, Digital Public Goods Alliance

  All about Digital Public Goods

• Changes at the Foundation for Public Code Europe office

  Staff are being let go

• Episode fifteen of Let's talk about public code! - Astor Nummelin, Open Forum Europe

  On institutionalisation of software

• Episode fourteen of Let's talk about public code! - Åsa Jagre and Konstantin Ay, Jitsi Outlook plugin

  Upstream-first and collaboration in the newest episode of our podcast

• Notes from the Standard for Public Code community call - 7 December 2023

  Clarifying about different types of translations

• How to be a good codebase contributor as a public organization

  For contributors representing public organizations, it's even more important to give maintainers the right expectations

• FOSDEM 2024 Public Code and Digital Public Goods devroom Call for Participation

  Come talk at our FOSDEM track!

• Notes from the Standard for Public Code community call - 2 November 2023

  Thoughts about when to release version 1.0

• Notes from the Standard for Public Code community call - 5 October 2023

  What does the path to becoming an ISO standard look like?

• New: the Standard for Public Code commitment badge

  How to display a codebase's commitment to the Standard for Public Code

• Notes from the Standard for Public Code community call - 7 September 2023

  Reviews in two days needs clarification on how it will be tested

• Notes from the Standard for Public Code community call - 3 August 2023

  Adding guidance for long-term archival

• Digital and technology trends from Almedalen 2023

  Our experiences at Sweden's Almedalen week

• Notes from the Standard for Public Code community call - 6 July 2023

  GitHub discussions, QR codes and a foreword

• Notes from the Standard for Public Code community call - 1 June 2023

  General discussion about the Standard for Public Code

• Notes from the Standard for Public Code community call - 4 May 2023

  How to budget for code reviews

• Common collaboration conundrums

  Companion notes for the talk at FOSS North 2023

• Notes from the Standard for Public Code community call - 6 April 2023

  Refining the requirements about findability in search engines

• Exploring a world of open source

  In 2030, governments only use open source - a thought experiment

• Notes from the Standard for Public Code community call - 6 March 2023

  Reflecting on the What this does not do sections

• Notes from the Standard for Public Code community call - 2 Februrary 2023

  Move Why this is important to preamble

• Pruning the oldest issues - January 2023

  Three issues closed, one created, one transferred, two work sessions planned and one pull request made

• Using Chat-GPT in codebase stewardship

  Chat-GPT can be a useful tool, but it is not magic

• Notes from the Standard for Public Code community call - 1 December 2022

  Labels for maturity of a codebase

• FOSDEM 2022 Public Code and Digital Public Goods devroom Call for Participation

  Come talk at our FOSDEM track!

• Pruning the oldest issues - November 2022

  Three issues closed, one transferred, two work sessions planned and one pull request made

• Notes from the Standard for Public Code community call - 3 November 2022

  Labels for maturity of a codebase

• Pruning the oldest issues - October 2022

  Two issues closed, one transferred and one pull request made

• Episode thirteen of Let's talk about public code! - Riccardo Iaconelli

  We talked about publiccode.yml in the newest episode of our podcast

• We've joined the Digital Public Goods Alliance

  This helps us act on our own commitment to the SDGs

• Printing your own Governance Game

  A new workflow to easily create a deck of cards yourself

• Launching a community built implementation guide for the Standard for Public Code

  Helping you on your way to fully adopting the Standard for Public Code for your codebase.

• Pruning the oldest issues - September 2022

  Four issues closed, three transferred, one work session planned and one pull request made

• Notes from the Standard for Public Code community call - 1 September 2022

  Questions and answers

• How to build a strong community for developing robust and valuable software

  Public Code Promising Practices in conversation with Leslie Hawthorn from Red Hat

• How to Use the Standard for Public Code for Your Digital Transformation Agenda

  Explanation and tips

• Pruning the oldest issues - July 2022

  Four work sessions planned and two issues to review again in the next session

• Notes from the Standard for Public Code community call - 7 July 2022

  The base for a roadmap for the Standard for Public Code

• Audrey Tang joins our Strategic Council

  Welcome, Audrey!

• Pruning the oldest issues - June 2022

  Three issues closed, five work sessions planned and next community call topic identified

• Notes from the Foundation for Public Code community call - 16 June 2022

  Let's have an event focused on codebase community collaboration skills

• Notes from the Standard for Public Code community call - 2 June 2022

  Good metadata is not enough for people to find a codebase, more efforts are needed

• Resilience During An International Crisis

  How to Build the digital Public Infrastructure of the Future

• Pruning the oldest issues - April 2022

  Three issues closed, five work sessions planned

• Notes from the Standard for Public Code community call - 7 April 2022

  Guidelines for software architecture and modularity of the codebase

• Pruning the oldest issues - March 2022

  Two issues addressed

• Episode twelve of Let's talk about public code! - Stephen Musoke and Johnblack Kabukye

  The newest episode of our podcast is available

• Notes from the Foundation for Public Code community call - 17 February 2022

  Making policies for persistent and user friendly websites

• The importance of international ambitions for long-term success

  Enabling a codebase to grow through the ambitions

• Notes from the Foundation for Public Code community call - 21 January 2021

  Building a better contribution management culture

• Notes from the Standard for Public Code community call - 3 February 2022

  Expanding on bundling policy and code

• Goals for the first quarter 2022

  Planning and refocusing our efforts

• Pruning the oldest issues - January 2022

  Seven old issues closed

• FOSDEM 2022 is coming up!

  There will be a public code track at FOSDEM and we want you to come

• Episode eleven of Let's talk about public code! - Gijs Hillenius from the European Commission

  The newest episode of our podcast is available

• Notes from the Standard for Public Code community call - 6 January 2022

  Policy

• Notes from the Foundation for Public Code community call - 16 December 2021

  Drafting the goals for the first quarter of 2022

• Episode ten of Let's talk about public code! - Leslie Hawthorn from Red Hat

  The newest episode of our podcast is available

• Strategic codebase types for stewardship

  The kinds of codebases we want to steward directly

• Notes from the Standard for Public Code community call - 2 December 2021

  Summarizing the 0.2.2 release and vendor and platform independence

• FOSDEM 2022 Public Code devroom Call for Participation

  We are organizing a track at FOSDEM and we want you to talk there

• Notes from the Foundation for Public Code community call - 18 November 2021

  Ambitions of the codebases we steward

• Pruning the oldest issues - November 2021

  Making progress on the navigation

• Notes from the Standard for Public Code community call - 4 November 2021

  Glossary and more about non-English terms

• Types of codebases to strategically steward

  What are the kinds of codebases we want to steward directly?

• End of year goals for the codebase stewards

  Unfolding the roadmap to goals

• Episode nine of Let's talk about public code! - Bastien Guerry from Etalab

  The newest episode of our podcast is available

• Notes from the Standard for Public Code community call - 7 October 2021

  The introduction for the Standard for Public Code

• Episode eight of Let's talk about public code! - Gabriella Gómez-Mont from Experimentalista

  The newest episode of our podcast is available

• Pruning the oldest issues - September 2021

  Another effort to reduce our Standard for Public Code backlog

• Launching our strategic council

  We're honored we get to work with these experts!

• Notes from the Standard for Public Code community call - 2 September 2021

  Increasing nuance in the requirement on use of English

• The Standard for Public Code recognized as a Digital Public Good

  It can now be found in the Digital Public Goods Registry

• Episode seven of Let's talk about public code! - Mauko Quiroga from OpenFisca

  The newest episode of our podcast is available

• Newsletter: June 2021

  Demodam, Signalen and we're hiring!

• Join the first Demodam hackathon, 5-9 July 2021

  Information on how to join the upcoming Demodam hackathon

• Pruning the oldest issues - June 2021

  Another effort to reduce our Standard for Public Code backlog

• Pruning our backlog - one issue at the time

  We have a new open process for tackling longstanding issues

• Episode six of Let's talk about public code! - Leonardo Favario from Department for Digital Transformation

  The newest episode of our podcast is available

• Product management in open source: you are responsible!

  How is product management done in open source projects and how does it differ from product management in public code

• Newsletter: May 2021

  Demodam, Signalen and we're hiring!

• Pruning the oldest issues - May 2021

  We are continuing to reduce our Standard for Public Code backlog

• Notes from the Standard for Public Code community call - 6 May 2021

  Vendor and platform independence

• Episode five of Let's talk about public code! - Amy van Someren from Signalen

  The newest episode of our podcast is available

• Newsletter: April 2021

  Community Jitsi Meet is go!

• Notes from the Standard for Public Code community call - 1 April 2021

  Pruning the oldest issues

• Three ways we supported the last Signalen community meetup

  Organizing a virtual event with the Signalen community

• Newsletter: March 2021

  We've switched to a monthly newsletter!

• Notes from the Standard for Public Code community call - 4 March 2021

  How can we get more people confident in using the standard?

• Newsletter: Dec 2020 to Feb 2021

  All the highlights from the last 3 months

• Episode four of Let's talk about public code! - Lea Hemetsberger from Open & Agile Smart Cities

  The fourth episode of our podcast is available

• Invitation: Signalen community meetup, March 22nd

  The 2nd Signalen community day

• Notes: February 2021 Foundation for Public Code community call

  Introducing the publiccode.net product requirements document

• Notes from the Standard for Public Code community call - 4 February 2021

  What will Standard certification look like?

• Signalen is in incubation

  The Signalen community is making a commitment to openness and collaboration.

• Episode three of Let's talk about public code! - Sergei Maertens and Tjerk Vaags from OpenZaak

  The third episode of our podcast is available

• Notes from the Standard for Public Code community call - 7 January 2021

  Is the introduction still fit for purpose?

• Notes from the Standard for Public Code community call - 3 December 2020

  Rolling releases and feedback on reviews

• How to start a Standard compliant GitHub repository

  A step by step guide to make things right, right from the start

• Newsletter, autumn 2020

  Our focuses and flowstates for the autumn

• Newsletter, summer 2020

  Our first newsletter, bumper summer edition!

• Notes from community call - 5 November 2020

  Discussion about challenges in implementing the Standard

• Notes from community call - 1 October 2020

  Discussion about reusability, ethics and public code in general

• We support the Sustainable Development Goals

  Celebrating Global Goals Week by explaining how we're working towards the SDGs

• Episode one of Let's talk about public code! - an interview with Dr. Arnau Monterde

  The first episode of our podcast is available

• Notes from community call - 3 September 2020

  Discussion about processes to translate the Standard for Public Code

• On air next: our podcast!

  We're launching a new livestream/video podcast 'Let's talk about public code'

• Notes from community call - 6 August 2020

  Discussions about if and how we should do translations of the Standard for Public Code

• Overdue socially distant socializing: team outing 2020

  Team outings during a pandemic are very much possible!

• 16 July 2020 - Foundation for Public Code community call

  Questions and answers from the community call

• Notes from community call - 2 July 2020

  Splitting 'Welcome contributions' in the Standard for Public Code

• The OpenZaak market consultation workshops

  How to build a financially sustainable open source codebase ecosystem from scratch

• Notes from community call - 18 June 2020

  Does the Code of Conduct we have serve our needs?

• Notes from community call - 3 June 2020

  On deeplinking in the standard

• We've won our first award: consider us encouraged! <3

  We're delighted to win an Encourgament Award from Internet Society Netherlands (as part of the 2020 Innovation Award)

• Notes from community call - 7 May 2020

  On code coverage, its implications and the possible inclusion of design principles.

• Notes from community call - 2 April 2020

  Does the 'How to test?' section stand the test?

• Notes from community call - 19 March 2020

  Experiences in working remotely

• Notes from community call - 5 March 2020

  Adding governance, fighting bloat and highlighting excellent vendors.

• A look at our Codebase Governance Game

  Why we decided to create a game about governance

• Notes from community call - 20 February 2020

  Content strategy in a default-open organization

• A new and an old thing I (re)learned at FOSDEM

  Why plans are important and why it's even more important to ignore them.

• A love letter to FOSDEM

  Helpful tips from my first FOSDEM

• Notes from community call - 21 November 2019

  Recent news roundup from the Foundation for Public Code.

• Notes from community call - 6 February 2020

  Recent news roundup from the Foundation for Public Code.

• Video: Collaborative Code is the Future of Cities

  Ben Cerveny's talk at DecidimFest 2019

• Notes from community call - 24 October 2019

  Discussion about CII best practices and levels of detail in the Standard for Public Code

• Roll on, 2020!

  From everyone at the Foundation, we wish you a relaxing break and happy new year!

• Notes from community call - 19 December 2019

  We went meta and discussed the community calls themselves.

• Notes from community call - 5 December 2019

  An update from Mexico City, and when to apply the Standard

• Notes from community call - 10 October 2019

  Recent news roundup from the Foundation for Public Code.

• Notes from community call - 26 September 2019

  We discussed archival criteria in the Standard for Public Code.

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