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Reward FLOSS maintainers for their past work on
critical and fragile Free Software that are used by
French public administrations.
🧢 BlueHats Awards
Open Source Summit - Vienna / DINUM september 2024 - [email protected]
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Direction interministérielle du numérique
code.gouv.fr
The Free Software unit (aka OSPO) of
the French public sector since 2021
[email protected]
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Direction interministérielle du numérique
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● It’s okay to pay for ongoing maintenance and new features
● It’s okay to sponsor structures for past developments
● But you cannot “finance” past developments
● And you cannot “sponsor” new features or ongoing maintenance
● What about individual maintainers, some of whom are volunteers?
Funding FLOSS with public money comes with constraints
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● Give 10K€ prizes
● For past development and maintenance
● To individual FLOSS maintainers
● … but how to deal with money transfer details ?
Hence the idea of the 🧢 BlueHats awards
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Direction interministérielle du numérique
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code.gouv.fr meets NLnet
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● 4 x 10K€ for individual FLOSS maintainers in 2024
● 3 public sector organizations part of the jury
● More than 50 submissions received
● A real collaboration between NLnet & code.gouv.fr
BlueHats 🧢 awards overview
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BlueHats 🧢 awards criteria
● Importance for the public sector
● Criticality in terms of security
● Financial impact for the maintainer
● Usefulness of the recognition through the prize
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BlueHats 🧢 awards lessons
● Do make only one call for projects
● The more knowledgeable organizations in the jury the better
● The evaluation process is time consuming
● The connection with FLOSS maintainers is rewarding
● Cross-communication with NLnet was key
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Reward FLOSS maintainers for their past work on
critical and fragile Free Software that are used by
French public administrations.
Open Source Summit - Vienna / DINUM september 2024 - [email protected]
🧢 BlueHats Awards - thank you !