We were still open as to whether we wanted to extend the discussion on Open Source also to the case where Open Source packages are directly developed by development cooperation projects. While these packages can be very small (e.g. Open libraries/ML-models for analysis of policy documents) or very large (e.g. software for national citizen cervices or education programmes), there are probably a few particularities to "Open Source" that can be challenging:
- building a development community
- issue driven open maintenance workflows
We were still open as to whether we wanted to extend the discussion on Open Source also to the case where Open Source packages are directly developed by development cooperation projects. While these packages can be very small (e.g. Open libraries/ML-models for analysis of policy documents) or very large (e.g. software for national citizen cervices or education programmes), there are probably a few particularities to "Open Source" that can be challenging: