"Go Away Microsoft! The Netherlands is Quietly Building Its Own GitHub Replacement
The self-hosted, FOSS-only platform is still in the pilot phase, but government agencies are already signing up.

Back in November 2025, Jan Vlug, a software engineer who writes for the Dutch government's developer portal, put out a detailed blog recommending which Git forge the Netherlands should adopt for its governmental source code hosting needs.

His post came at a time when the Ministry of the Interior (BZK) was already setting up a dedicated Git instance, and the platform decision was still open.

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Forgejo came out on top due to its fully free and open source nature. Licensed under GPLv3+ and governed by Codeberg e.V., a democratic nonprofit, it has no enterprise tier, proprietary upsell, or vendor lock-in problems.

On April 24, 2026, code.overheid.nl had its soft launch, with developer advocate Tom Ootes writing about it on developer.overheid.nl. He framed it as a collective project to build something together rather than ship something finished.

The platform is a self-hosted Forgejo instance, running on Dutch government infrastructure managed by SSC-ICT (DAWO). It's free for all government organizations and is built around the following goals."

https://itsfoss.com/news/netherlands-forgejo-migration/

#opensource #netherlands

SSSOM now specifies an algorithm for hashing records (i.e., rows in a SSSOM TSV file) to support interoperability across implementations and make semantic mappings more FAIR

📖 https://mapping-commons.github.io/sssom/spec-support-hashing

Implementations are already available in SSSOM-Java and sssom-pydantic

huge thanks to @dgouttegattat for leading the development of this part of the SSSOM spec!

#sssom #owl #semanticweb #obo #fair

You have a #project and want to know (or block) if a contribution is AI made?

we at #WoodpeckerCI have packaged the #AgentScan as #plugin: https://woodpecker-ci.org/plugins/agentscan

#ci #automation

"Planning is understood to [promote trust in repositories] but [...] despite the importance assigned to succession planning in certification standards for trustworthy digital #repositories (TDRs), there is little in-depth guidance on how to design and implement such plans."

Hope for the best, plan for the worst: Reducing risks associated with #repository cessation https://doi.org/10.2218/ijdc.v20i1.1091 #TDRs #DigitalLibraries #DigitalCuration #OpenData #OpenResearch #digipres

RE: https://dair-community.social/@DAIR/116213345736660807

Interested in working at DAIR? We're hiring a communications lead, who we needed yesterday. Is that you? Please apply. Is that people you know? Please share the job ad with them so that they apply.

💥💥💥 No "AI" generated applications please. We read every application. E.g. we read through nearly 600 internship applications a couple of years back. It's pretty easy to tell whether someone is blasting slop or truly spending the time to apply.