How does the govdirectory project work? Does it use web scrapers to collect the contact details? I checked the bot repository, and it was empty. https://github.com/govdirectory/bots I would like to know about their methodology and to be honest how it helps me.
There are only 46 countries listed there. I am not intending to be critical of the idea, but having contact information of government institutions is not an effective way to get things done, in my opinion. And most government websites and contact details are quite accessible because they are centrally built through national IT system and a unified software service (usually). In third and second world country the contact details is usually quite useless. You have to find the right person and sit in front of their office.
The issue with the government contact repository is that it does not connect 'I have this problem' and 'who do I reach out to'. From my experience, you have to invest time in doing research and finding out who to reach out to.
I'm really surprised that in https://www.govdirectory.org/countries/ " most (all?) E.U (so yes, I'm talking about political Europe, not geographical Europe) are not there :(
I wish they'd spend less time giving awards and more time producing an actual specification for Project GNU so we can actually measure when it will be feature-complete.
There seems to be a conflict of interest with GNU Guile and GIMP are winning these awards. In the last year there has been a lot of free software related to AI that has been developed along with pushing open source in AI that was more impactful tha than Guile.
I can't speak for GNU Guile, but I wasn't even aware I was in the running for the "Outstanding New Free Software Contributor Award" when I got the email, and I didn't know anyone on the committee. So I don't think there was a conflict of interest.
There's definitely plenty of people out there who were equally deserving of the award!
I've worked with Andy a bunch and am glad to see him getting recognition for his work on Guile.
How does the govdirectory project work? Does it use web scrapers to collect the contact details? I checked the bot repository, and it was empty. https://github.com/govdirectory/bots I would like to know about their methodology and to be honest how it helps me.
There are only 46 countries listed there. I am not intending to be critical of the idea, but having contact information of government institutions is not an effective way to get things done, in my opinion. And most government websites and contact details are quite accessible because they are centrally built through national IT system and a unified software service (usually). In third and second world country the contact details is usually quite useless. You have to find the right person and sit in front of their office.
The issue with the government contact repository is that it does not connect 'I have this problem' and 'who do I reach out to'. From my experience, you have to invest time in doing research and finding out who to reach out to.
I'm really surprised that in https://www.govdirectory.org/countries/ " most (all?) E.U (so yes, I'm talking about political Europe, not geographical Europe) are not there :(
What could be the reason for this?
Why are the 2024 awards at the end of 2025?
I wish they'd spend less time giving awards and more time producing an actual specification for Project GNU so we can actually measure when it will be feature-complete.
Do you have the same expectations from every software project? Linux? Python? Chrome? Microsoft Office?
There seems to be a conflict of interest with GNU Guile and GIMP are winning these awards. In the last year there has been a lot of free software related to AI that has been developed along with pushing open source in AI that was more impactful tha than Guile.
I can't speak for GNU Guile, but I wasn't even aware I was in the running for the "Outstanding New Free Software Contributor Award" when I got the email, and I didn't know anyone on the committee. So I don't think there was a conflict of interest.
There's definitely plenty of people out there who were equally deserving of the award!