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State of Open Source: The UK in 2021

53 pointsby vmbrasseurover 3 years ago

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open-source-uxover 3 years ago
I&#x27;ve only skimmed through the Phase One report, but not surprised to see the UK government website (GOV.UK) mentioned.<p>The massive GOV.UK website is an excellent example of using open source to provide public services and information. An example service: the official government coronovirus dashboard - <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;coronavirus.data.gov.uk&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;coronavirus.data.gov.uk&#x2F;</a> Scroll down to the footer and there is a link to all the frontend source code on GitHub.<p>Information, not just source code, also benefits from being made open. For example, back in 2016, a UK government blog on accessibility shared a series of posters on designing for accessibility [1]. Many readers of the blog wanted to translate the posters. They were posted on GitHub and have been translated into Japanese, Estonian, Russian and many more languages: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;UKHomeOffice&#x2F;posters&#x2F;tree&#x2F;master&#x2F;accessibility&#x2F;dos-donts" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;UKHomeOffice&#x2F;posters&#x2F;tree&#x2F;master&#x2F;accessib...</a><p>Finally, also equally important is open data: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;data.gov.uk&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;data.gov.uk&#x2F;</a><p>[1] <i>Dos and don&#x27;ts on designing for accessibility</i> (2016): <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;accessibility.blog.gov.uk&#x2F;2016&#x2F;09&#x2F;02&#x2F;dos-and-donts-on-designing-for-accessibility&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;accessibility.blog.gov.uk&#x2F;2016&#x2F;09&#x2F;02&#x2F;dos-and-donts-o...</a>
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prajwalshettyover 3 years ago
Brilliant!<p>On a different note - GOV.UK in my opinion is one of the most well-designed, practical, and useful public&#x2F;government sites on the planet.<p>The rest of the countries needs to take a note on how to design government sites&#x2F;services
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miavover 3 years ago
&gt; 97% of UK companies surveyed use open source and 89% are running open source software.<p>Is it at all possible that this first number is accurate? I would assume every company at least uses a web browser, which would mean using open source (Blink&#x2F;WebKit&#x2F;Gecko).