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Terence Eden@edentterence.eden@nhsx.nhs.uk

Open Source atGovernment Digital ServicesandNHSX

What we learnt open sourcing the UK government

GOV.UK Story

Before GOV.UK

Why do this?

Cheaper, faster, more secure, morally right.

£1 in every £3 to be spent with Small Business

Need to visit someone in prison?

39%More likely to reoffend if not visited

https://www.gov.uk/performance/prison-visits

Child benefit tax calculator

Open Source Attracts Talented Developers.

Excuses we've heard...

"Open Source is not secure enough!"

"Our work is too sensitive, we can’t use open source!"

"What if we accidentally commit secret keys?"

Security tools can be coded in the open

https://github.com/hmrc/leak-detection

"What if other countries steal our code?"

Our process

Downsides when coding in the open

GDS

People can be nervous showing their code to the public

GDS

Sometimes external people have questioned choices without having the full context

GDS

To make this easier we do a lot of pairing and we have guidelines to make a pull request

Community

GDS

Our code is released under MIT License

Thank you!Terence Eden@edentterence.eden@nhsx.nhs.uk