| ▲ | embedding-shape 4 hours ago |
| I am living in Spain, and from my point of view, Netherlands is one of the ones doing the most for FOSS in Europe today! It sees much faster real-world adoption of FOSS in ministries and municipalities than other countries, the government seems eager to fund FOSS (again, compared to other countries) and generally be welcoming to the ecosystem. Browsing around, there seems to be lots of FOSS projects funded by money coming from the Dutch state. Kind of interesting how the perspective is so different from the inside! Maybe it's the typical "the grass is always greener..."? |
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| ▲ | starefossen 3 hours ago | parent | next [-] |
| Norwegian Government has a couple of thousand open repos for their code https://norwegian-public-organizations.vercel.app/ Most notably the Labor and Welfare Administration with 3000+ open repos. |
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| ▲ | embedding-shape 3 hours ago | parent | next [-] | | Yeah, also pretty dope! Sweden also basically spearheads the whole "open data" thing for a long time too :) Too many great stuff happening across the continent to just say one or two countries are doing everything, in that you're right. | |
| ▲ | whinvik 3 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] | | Funny that its hosted on vercel. Probably because its employee driven rather than top down. Saves all the bureaucracy to get someone to sign a budget item to buy a domain. | | | |
| ▲ | mcsolid 14 minutes ago | parent | prev [-] | | This is cool (and on Vercel too) |
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| ▲ | oever 3 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| This map shows that the Dutch municipalities are nearly all in the Microsoft cloud. https://mxmap.nl/ |
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| ▲ | michelb 3 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| Not sure. I think Germany and France are way ahead? |
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| ▲ | embedding-shape 3 hours ago | parent | next [-] | | Yeah, probably if you asked me for "Top 3 countries for FOSS in Europe" I'd pretty much say France, Germany and Netherlands, hence me saying "is one of the ones" :) Compared to the rest of the countries, those three probably do way more than all the rest together. | |
| ▲ | rglullis 3 hours ago | parent | prev [-] | | NLNet is funding open source projects to the tune of tens of millions of euros per year, and it is Dutch. | | |
| ▲ | weinzierl 3 hours ago | parent [-] | | NLnet (the foundation) is Dutch, but as far as I know NLnet Labs (which does the work and spends the money) is at least partially funded by Germany (through the Sovereign Tech Fund). I don't have the numbers at hand and cannot dig them up right now. If anyone knows the extent of participation of each country that'd be definitely interesting for others too. | | |
| ▲ | embedding-shape 2 hours ago | parent | next [-] | | I think NLnet Labs is indeed like 50% funded through German Sovereign Tech Fund, but most of NLnet + the rest of NLnet Labs is funded via EU project funds or other public programs. I don't think NLnet receives anything at all from the Dutch government AFAIK, and NLnet Labs gets tiny amount of funds via Dutch SIDN subsidy I guess, but that's pretty much it. This is all (tried to) rememberings from meetings in 2024 sometime, so could be different today. | |
| ▲ | oever an hour ago | parent | prev [-] | | NLnet Labs was started by NLnet but now independent. https://nlnetlabs.is.not.nlnet.nl/ Funding for NLnet Labs is largely from paying customers for development of DNS software. NLnet funds development of the full stack of communication technologies from chip design to office suites. Funding for NLnet comes from public institutions, private companies and citizens. |
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| ▲ | rollyboo 11 minutes ago | parent | prev [-] |
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