{"id":1055,"date":"2014-11-10T18:12:04","date_gmt":"2014-11-10T17:12:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.malcolmhardie.com\/weblogs\/angus\/?p=1055"},"modified":"2025-02-01T03:04:14","modified_gmt":"2025-02-01T03:04:14","slug":"mod-releasing-open-source-stuff","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.malcolmhardie.com\/weblogs\/angus\/2014\/11\/10\/mod-releasing-open-source-stuff\/","title":{"rendered":"MOD releasing open source stuff"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.theregister.co.uk\/2014\/11\/10\/mod_releases_web_app_code_to_github\/\">MoD releases code to GitHub<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Well done to the\u00c2\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.gov.uk\/government\/news\/mod-scientists-provide-open-source-software-on-github\">Defence Science and Technology Laboratory<\/a> at the UK ministry of Defence. They&#8217;ve started to release code on <a href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/dstl\">github<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>I can&#8217;t imagine that getting approval for this was easy, and\u00c2\u00a0it probably required a fair amount of negotiation to get\u00c2\u00a0this far; but it&#8217;s a good sign for openness in government and hopefully it will be a good thing for\u00c2\u00a0both the government and the wider community.<\/p>\n<p>Given that governments aren&#8217;t trying to make money selling software, open source seems an excellent fit. Hopefully we&#8217;ll see more stuff from them. (I imagine\u00c2\u00a0not the classified things though!)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MoD releases code to GitHub Well done to the\u00c2\u00a0Defence Science and Technology Laboratory at the UK ministry of Defence. They&#8217;ve started to release code on github. I can&#8217;t imagine that getting approval for this was easy, and\u00c2\u00a0it probably required a fair amount of negotiation to get\u00c2\u00a0this far; but it&#8217;s a good sign for openness in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1055","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.malcolmhardie.com\/weblogs\/angus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1055","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.malcolmhardie.com\/weblogs\/angus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.malcolmhardie.com\/weblogs\/angus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.malcolmhardie.com\/weblogs\/angus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.malcolmhardie.com\/weblogs\/angus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1055"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.malcolmhardie.com\/weblogs\/angus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1055\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1296,"href":"https:\/\/www.malcolmhardie.com\/weblogs\/angus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1055\/revisions\/1296"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.malcolmhardie.com\/weblogs\/angus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1055"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.malcolmhardie.com\/weblogs\/angus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1055"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.malcolmhardie.com\/weblogs\/angus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1055"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}