Open Source Licence It was important to check out how an open source licence should work, consider the options – limitations and benefits, look at what others have done, and think about the best practical approach for this project

User Research It was important to build on the learnings we had from our original Discovery project, when wetalked to many different authorities’ staff, by again interviewing people closely connected to the world ofbusiness rates, including key local authority staff,…

Memorandum of Understanding Memorandum of Understanding: We needed to set out how the five councils could/should work collaboratively, and with consultants Made Tech, on this Alpha project – taking into account values, liabilities, reporting, etc. Common courtesy, integrity and a…

Governance Summary Our colleagues at Made Tech came up with an easy to understand set of principles around open source governance, including recommended team structures, and how costs and funding could be managed for an open source platform.

Executive summary At the end of the project this was our internal summary of how the project had gone

Governance This is how we started thinking about how Open Source governance could work.

On 11 July we ran our final Show & Tell for the Rev Bens Alpha open source project – demonstrating what we did, what we learnt and the outcomes to date. About 75 local authority representatives joined us for the…

Yes, and it’s great news. We’ve turned a corner on the road to open source data sharing. This project marks an important step forward in delivering more choice for authorities in the Revs and Bens software market. We’ll be loading…

You may wonder about the hiatus in sharing our most recent activities with you… sadly we’ve had a few technical problems with this blogsite, so apologies if you thought we had given up… far from it! We’ve been beavering away…