Go Free Range worker co-opA week late, but here are our #weeknotes for last week which was a break between the project at the Government Digital Service and and a new (to us) project at NHS Digital.
They include a video of the GFR theme song played live at the Albert Hall!
A busy week at GFR to round off the year!
* New client project at #gdsteam working on #govuk publishing 💼
* Value propositions for #jamcoop 🍓
* Mocha library release ☕️
* CoTech website revamp 🎨
* #codeclub up and running 🤖
* Mission Patch bug fix 🚀
* Dotfiles on a new laptop 💻
🎄Merry Christmas🎄 and a 🍾Happy New Year🍾!
James 
> ‘Significant exposure’: AWS outage exposed UK state’s £1.7bn reliance on tech giant
Although the GOV.UK PaaS [1] was initially built on AWS, it used Terraform with the intention of using other providers, but then it was decommissioned [2] - perhaps it’s worth reviving…?
[1]: https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/platform-as-a-service/platform-as-a-service
[2]: https://gds.blog.gov.uk/2022/07/12/why-weve-decided-to-decommission-gov-uk-paas-platform-as-a-service/
> Ed Miliband says it is ‘possible’ that UK government should leave X
Why is this so hard? A Mastodon instance for GOV.UK seems like a no-brainer...
Sad to see GDS is still on Twitter and not obviously on the Fediverse…
SocialMediaService.find_by(name: ‘Twitter’).destroy!
https://github.com/alphagov/whitehall/blob/main/app/models/social_media_service.rb
Jonathan Schofield@[email protected] NHS vs the outcomes of #GDSTeam certainly seems like a night and day experience :/
Does anyone know whether #gdsteam and/or #ukparliament have any plans to run a Mastodon/ActivityPub instance?
It's a shame that MPs are jumping from the frying pan (X) into the fire (BlueSky)!
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2024/oct/14/westminster-elon-musk-x-labour-mp-josh-simons
eviljonnyWant to be an SRE in the same team as me on GOV.UK Pay, or with my awesome colleagues on GOV.UK Notify? Well we have a mid-level SRE role open for applications right now!
https://www.civilservicejobs.service.gov.uk/csr/jobs.cgi?jcode=1890085
Cédric AellenThis is a great exemple of providing an accessible alternative to a map.
https://flood-warning-information.service.gov.uk/warnings
Nice job #gdsteam
Ecologia DigitalHow to open up closed code
"#Governments don’t compete with each other for service delivery. So #opensource and #openstandards are very important. We should collaborate and share. This excellent work by @annashipman shows how to start."
#gdsteam #d5 #digitalnations2030.
https://gdstechnology.blog.gov.uk/2018/02/19/how-to-open-up-closed-code/