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NLnet is also a great Dutch initiative. It's great to see that smaller, more nimble countries are leading the way in Open Source and digital independence.
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> I was wondering this morning whether they were going to migrate away from GH.

In the context of several other articles today with various people migrating off of github...

is there an event prompting this, or were you thinking of it more in the general vein of European governments trying to reduce dependency on American services?

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One of the projects I work on, OWF, has great engagement with our open source efforts from Dutch companies and NGOs.

https://openwallet.foundation/staff/

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> partijgedrag

So happy to see they're ingesting voting data again! They stopped a few years ago (which is also a few elections), which I thought was such a shame. Knowing what representatives actually do, and not just promise, is really the only thing that matters.

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Elwin had some trouble with getting the API going. I ended up helping out, but I was in a big time crunch at the company I was working for at the time.

That's vastly different now, so I want to take a look at how we can properly do ingestion. Currently it's an ETL that is pretty flakey, even with tests. The backend-frontend is also a mess, wondering if we can just go vanillaJS without the mess that is pgtyped/prisma. I'm kind of wondering if we can use ATProto too, but I'm not too familiar with it.

Elwin is also looking at municipality-independent instances (this is less about code and more about communicating with municipalities). They all want money, which is fair, but we're not sponsored or funded anywhere. Supporting this is fruitful thinking on our side.

The code is still on my gh [0], but i might make an org on codeberg for this and mirror to this back to gh

0: https://github.com/van-sprundel/partijgedrag

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