Name: Why Further Development on Publiccode.yml Is Neccessary - Tom Ootes, developer.overheid.nl
Start: 2025-08-27T14:10:00+0200
End: 2025-08-27T14:50:00+0200

25-27, August 2025
Amsterdam, Netherlands
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Wednesday August 27, 2025 14:10 - 14:50 CEST

G105

My story/message/ problem statement would be:

- A cultural change needs to take place. Instead of building software themselves, organizations should first explore the landscape (open standards/existing projects).

- However, not all OSS projects are yet findable in the public sector/with suppliers.

- Also, much metadata available in repositories is not platform-agnostic (thus embedded in Gitlab/Github)

- The agnostic standard that solves this: publiccode.yml. We need to apply this standard but also invest in it/contribute to it. Only then will it become more usable.

- "Infrastructure-as-code" projects within the government are increasingly available as open source. Organizations like Kadaster and Wigo4IT are about to open source this. To make the Dutch Digital Infrastructure more sovereign, it is crucial that these open source infrastructure components are also made findable.

- The publiccode.yml standard is already being used by FR/DE and Brussels, so it's logical to invest in this standard. We will have to make all our initiatives easily findable/searchable! The quality regarding metadata needs to improve.

Besides this i would like to emphasize that working OSS is just more fun.

Speakers

Tom Ootes

Developer Advocate, developer.overheid.nl

Has been working for the Dutch Government for in several roles. As a front-end dev for the Dutch Ministry of Health during covid building the Source Tracing Platform. Got interested in how developers co-operate within this government.

Wednesday August 27, 2025 14:10 - 14:50 CEST
G105

OpenGovCon

Audience Experience Level Intermediate

Open Source Summit Europe 2025

Tom Ootes

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