WOOt does the government do? (hackerhotel2024)

WOOt do we want? Freedom for our software! When do we WOOnt it? Now! This talk is about the journey into opensourcing software used and made by our governement. We will introduce you to the Wet Open Overheid (WOO) and explain how this law allows you to request the source of certain software. Then we’ll provide you with a step-by-step guide how you can woo (yes, that’s a new verb we made up) software of your interest and in which cases you may want or not want to do so. This may all sound nice in theory but Mendel will of course also tell you about his personal journey of requesting the DigiD code base and how this eventually lead to opensourcing the complete code base. In contrast to this lovely abstract, the talk will be in Dutch. WOOt do we want? Freedom for our software! When do we WOOnt it? Now! This talk is about the journey into opensourcing software used and made by our governement. We will introduce you to the Wet Open Overheid (WOO) and explain how this law allows you to request the source of certain software. Then we’ll provide you with a step-by-step guide how you can woo (yes, that’s a new verb we made up) software of your interest and in which cases you may want or not want to do so. This may all sound nice in theory but Mendel will of course also tell you about his personal journey of requesting the DigiD code base and how this eventually lead to opensourcing the complete code base. In contrast to this lovely description, the talk will be in Dutch. about this event: https://pretalx.hackerhotel.nl/hackerhotel-2024/talk/FTWP3P/