Open source digital playbook

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TIL there is an ‘Open Source Digital Playbook’ published by NHS England:

I honestly had the impression that NHS leadership was anti-OSS.

S.

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The NHSE leadership is firmly in favour of virtue signalling of all kinds, as long as it doesn’t mean they have to practice what they preach.

  • Virtue-signalling in favour of “open source” while actively procuring only closed-source megasuites.
  • Virtue-signalling towards “improving staff welfare” while presiding over removal of rest areas, dehumanising clinical rotas, and the abuse and persecution of whistleblowers.
  • Virtue-signalling for “retention of staff” while those very staff are currently striking over pay and conditions of work.
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Not sure what you mean?

Most of the work I’ve done and currently doing is on NHS Digital · GitHub
but I am an injun, not chief.

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Agree that NHS Digital GitHub is OSS because you can read the source …

However, the uninitiated can’t meaningfully log issues or submit PRs to fix problems that may be identified by reading the source!

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TIL(2) NHS Digital(!) has a GitHub!

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There is a bit of a mix in the GitHub.

  • I’m not sure all of it counts as software?
  • Many repo’s don’t seem to have a licence?