OSS Commitments in draft Gov. of Canada 4th Plan on Open Government

[Gabriel Cossette]

Hi everyone,

Canada published draft commitments for his upcoming 4th Action Plan on
Open Government 2018-20. You can share your feedback directly in the
documents by August 13, 2018:

https://open.canada.ca/en/4plan/creating-canadas-4th-plan-open-government-2018-20

The OSS ones are in the section "4. Digital government and services":

4.6 Prioritize open source code in development and procurement of
digital solutions
* March 2019 - Encourage departments to publish source code to external
repositories where feasible. Departments should post on GC Code as a
minimum to share internally
* All new projects presented to the Enterprise Architecture Review Board
(EARB)[1] will consider Open Source Software as part of their options
analysis
* September 2018 - A business case for Open Source is published
* September 2018 - A Registry of Open Source Code and Open Source
Software is established
* December 2018 - Source code used in LAC’s Co-Lab crowdsourcing tool is
opened up and available publicly for other institutions to use
* September 2018 - An Open Source Day event is organized

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Gabriel Cossette

Entrepreneur du GC, Architecture d’entreprise
Services partagés Canada / Gouvernement du Canada
gabriel....@canada.ca / Tél. : 418-254-8558

GC Entrepreneur, Enterprise Architecture
Shared Services Canada / Government of Canada
gabriel....@canada.ca / Tel: 418-254-8558