ITx 2016 - Open sourcing the open source policy

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NZGOAL Software Extension: Open sourcing the open source policy

Open Government Information and Data Programme

Introductions

Paul Stone Cam Findlay

Overview

Paul will cover:

NZGOAL framework Why add software into the mix? Why do things differently? Policy outcome and result

Cam will cover:

Open source tools we used Open sourcing public consultation What’s in the policy? Where we're at and what's next?

NZ Government Open Access and Licensing (NZGOAL) Framework

Guidance to publicly funded agencies on how to apply Creative Commons licences

to publicly funded information, data and content.

NZGOAL Software Extension

Guidance to publicly funded agencies on how to apply free and open source licences

to publicly funded software development

Why?

Ensure consistent best practice Potential for accelerated innovation Efficient improvement to government digital services Increase value from public investment in software

Walking the talk…

Open Source and Open Government

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Some may see it more like this…

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Walking Open Government

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Walking Open Source

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Public participation and policy revision

Robust discussion Consensus building Transparent changes to policy Superior policy result

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Open sourcing policy creation

Open source tools

Loomio - Online consensus building discussion tool GitHub - Social coding platform Jekyll - Static website server and documentation generator Atom - Used to edit the policy wording Pandoc - Document conversion tool (command line) LibreOffice - Final document editing and PDF generation

Open source as a process

Robust collaboration process used in practice Code is computer instructions, policy is people instructions Can we apply open source process to public policy writing? Open Government Partnership & D5 Charter - transparency &

participation

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Set time frame for consultation

Calendar* by Dafne Cholet, CC-BY 2.0, https://www.flickr.com/photos/dafnecholet/5374200948

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2-way dialogue with participants

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Decision making and visible action

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Policy co-creation

By the numbers

37 participants 16 topics 10 decisions

175 comments 28,000 words!Designed by Freepik and distributed by Flaticon

In contrast

1 email submission

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What’s the 4 key policy sections?

Section 1 - Purpose, scope, definitions, licences Section 2 - Legal and policy context Section 3 - Policy principles Section 4 - Review and release process

Some interesting policy points

Helps licence if an agency choses to open source Adapted open source, use same licence (if possible) Balanced GPL/MIT for new open source Options for other licences Suggests version control and existing repos for release Contributions

Where we are at and what’s next?

Awaiting sign off Once approved will be published for use on ict.govt.nz Looking at further guidance notes to help agencies We end up with a single framework (NZGOAL) covering

information, content, data and software

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opendata@linz.govt.nz

Questions?