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Keynote: A Hundred Projects, Then Three: Ten Years of Stewarding Public Open Source - Lucie Smolka, Otevřená Města
This June, the European Commission called for steward organisations to hold and govern Europe's open source. Otevřená města has been one since 2016 – an association of Czech municipalities that started with a handful of enthusiasts convinced that collaboration would free cities from vendor lock-in. We ended up with almost a hundred projects. We cut them to three. Today we run seven that municipalities actually use. This keynote tells that story honestly: why municipalities rarely build and often hesitate to share, why nobody adopts software because it is open, and why for years we did not know whether we would survive. As AI promises that everyone can now build whatever they need, we have seen this before. Writing code was never the hard part. Choosing what to keep, and answering for it for years, is.