Hadley Beeman at OSCON
we believe that Open Source is stronger when it is supported by Open Standards
with Open Standards we can switch what we are using underneath to whatever technology makes sense
we have an open process to select software interoperability standards to make compulsory across government
our standards choice is based at standards.data.gov.uk and relentlessly focused on user need
a couple of months ago we had a process for exchanging standards on address data, including vcard and h-card
we need you to help us set these open standards - we have challenges on location, job listings and more
you help us make these decisions on what to require, and we make them standard across government
ultimately we want to build an ecosystem based on open source and open standards for all of government