[HN Gopher] State of Open Source: The UK in 2021
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       State of Open Source: The UK in 2021
        
       Author : vmbrasseur
       Score  : 47 points
       Date   : 2021-10-13 16:12 UTC (6 hours ago)
        
 (HTM) web link (openuk.uk)
 (TXT) w3m dump (openuk.uk)
        
       | open-source-ux wrote:
       | I've only skimmed through the Phase One report, but not surprised
       | to see the UK government website (GOV.UK) mentioned.
       | 
       | 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 -
       | https://coronavirus.data.gov.uk/ Scroll down to the footer and
       | there is a link to all the frontend source code on GitHub.
       | 
       | 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:
       | https://github.com/UKHomeOffice/posters/tree/master/accessib...
       | 
       | Finally, also equally important is open data:
       | https://data.gov.uk/
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       | [1] _Dos and don 'ts on designing for accessibility_ (2016):
       | https://accessibility.blog.gov.uk/2016/09/02/dos-and-donts-o...
        
       | prajwalshetty wrote:
       | Brilliant!
       | 
       | On a different note - GOV.UK in my opinion is one of the most
       | well-designed, practical, and useful public/government sites on
       | the planet.
       | 
       | The rest of the countries needs to take a note on how to design
       | government sites/services
        
         | CodeGlitch wrote:
         | Only the other day I was arguing about how good the civil
         | service was in the UK, amongst many other great things about
         | the UK:
         | 
         | https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28811319
         | 
         | A lot of people don't agree however, and they think the UK is
         | going "down the pan".
        
       | miav wrote:
       | > 97% of UK companies surveyed use open source and 89% are
       | running open source software.
       | 
       | 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/WebKit/Gecko).
        
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