[starefossen]

The largest branch of the Norwegian government, Labor and Welfare Administration (NAV), have adopted this this policy since 2018 and now we have over 2000 public repositories on https://github.com/navikt and https://github.com/nais (last one is our platform organization)

[asdfman123]

What if we, and hear me out, just stole Norway’s code?

/a

[sitkack]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joel_Pett

https://i.imgur.com/up6yu.jpeg

[nicbou]

Just comment out healthcare and a couple of other things and you’re good to go!

In reality though it would be possible to share code between cities, regions and even countries. Some use cases are fairly generic.

[NoPain]

I think we also celebrate with cake if someone have a pull request from someone else that get approved?

[starefossen]

Yes, we definitely do that! Talking about cake, can someone form HN make a pull request, please?!

[jWhick]

Way to go Norway

[tootie]

I work for a nonprofit. Most of git repos are public but nobody cares. It's all pretty uninteresting.

[starefossen]

For us it is a matter of building trust and allowing others to help if they choose so. We don’t expect many outside contributions.

[throw_nbvc1234]

is it uninteresting or just not scalable for a human to dig through; content vs index/search problem?