Who we are
We’re a multidisciplinary team with many years of experience in government digital transformation, open source and building collaborative networks.
Chapters
The Foundation for Public Code is a federation of chapter non-profit organizations, which all participate in an governing umbrella member association. They share knowledge and open resources, foster international collaboration, and participate in local funding and governance structures in their respective domains.
At the broadest level, our vision of success is an ecosystem of successful public products, well-governed and financially sustainable collaborations producing higher quality, transparent, and efficient software for the public sector.
Foundation for Public Code vereniging (met volledige rechtsbevoegdheid) is a member owned association registered under chamber of commerce (KvK) registration 74996452 and with identification number (RSIN) 860102294. We're recognized as a public benefit organization (ANBI) by the Dutch Tax and Customs Administration.
North American Chapter
Foundation for Public Code North AmericaLos Angeles, California, USA
Foundation for Public Code North America is a non-profit organization registered in the state of Delaware, United States. We're recognized federally as a public charity under Internal Revenue Code (IRC) Section 501(c)(3) with identification number (EIN) 92-2324481.
Audrey Tang
Digital Minister of Taiwan
Dan Hill
Director of Melbourne School of Design, former Director of Strategic Design, Vinnova
Gabriella Gómez-Mont
Principal at Experimentalista, former Chief Creative Officer of Mexico City
Leslie Hawthorn
(Chair) Manager, Vertical Community Strategy, Red Hat Open Source Program Office
History of the Foundation for Public Code
The Foundation for Public Code was founded by Ben Cerveny, Boris van Hoytema and Arnout Schuijff in 2019, to guide international collaboration among public organizations around codebase design, quality and governance.
Leveraging 30 combined years of experience working with cities and technology-enabled collaboration, Boris and Ben recognized policy and whitepapers were insufficient catalysts in this space. Their landscape analysis revealed that stewardship was the key to converting the massive public investment in open source and collaboration into long-term, sustainable implementation.
Based on their experience of technological innovation in a traditional industry, Pieter van der Does and Arnout Schuijff (co-founders of the Adyen payments platform) agreed with Ben and Boris that public organizations deserved better software. They joined the Board of Directors to share their expertise and connections.
Boris van Hoytema
Chief executive
(2019-2023)
Claus Mullie
Stewardship and membership coordinator (2019-2024)
Elena Findley-de Regt
Communications coordinator (2019-2024)
Jan Ainali
Codebase steward(2019-2024)
Eric Herman
Lead codebase steward(2019-2024)
Mirjam van Tiel
Finance executive(2019)
Alba Roza
Codebase steward for communites(2020-2021)
Deborah Meibergen
Operations coordinator(2020-2021)
Laura Scheske
Membership developer(2020-2021)
Felix Faassen
Codebase steward(2020-2021)
Kehinde Bademosi
Creative director
(2021-2024)
Who we are
We’re a multidisciplinary team with many years of experience in government digital transformation, open source and building collaborative networks.
Chapters
The Foundation for Public Code is a federation of chapter non-profit organizations, which all participate in an governing umbrella member association. They share knowledge and open resources, foster international collaboration, and participate in local funding and governance structures in their respective domains.
At the broadest level, our vision of success is an ecosystem of successful public products, well-governed and financially sustainable collaborations producing higher quality, transparent, and efficient software for the public sector.
Foundation for Public Code vereniging (met volledige rechtsbevoegdheid) is a member owned association registered under chamber of commerce (KvK) registration 74996452 and with identification number (RSIN) 860102294. We're recognized as a public benefit organization (ANBI) by the Dutch Tax and Customs Administration.
North American Chapter
Foundation for Public Code North AmericaLos Angeles, California, USA
Foundation for Public Code North America is a non-profit organization registered in the state of Delaware, United States. We're recognized federally as a public charity under Internal Revenue Code (IRC) Section 501(c)(3) with identification number (EIN) 92-2324481.
Audrey Tang
Digital Minister of Taiwan
Dan Hill
Director of Melbourne School of Design, former Director of Strategic Design, Vinnova
Gabriella Gómez-Mont
Principal at Experimentalista, former Chief Creative Officer of Mexico City
Leslie Hawthorn
(Chair) Manager, Vertical Community Strategy, Red Hat Open Source Program Office
History of the Foundation for Public Code
The Foundation for Public Code was founded by Ben Cerveny, Boris van Hoytema and Arnout Schuijff in 2019, to guide international collaboration among public organizations around codebase design, quality and governance.
Leveraging 30 combined years of experience working with cities and technology-enabled collaboration, Boris and Ben recognized policy and whitepapers were insufficient catalysts in this space. Their landscape analysis revealed that stewardship was the key to converting the massive public investment in open source and collaboration into long-term, sustainable implementation.
Based on their experience of technological innovation in a traditional industry, Pieter van der Does and Arnout Schuijff (co-founders of the Adyen payments platform) agreed with Ben and Boris that public organizations deserved better software. They joined the Board of Directors to share their expertise and connections.
Boris van Hoytema
Chief executive
(2019-2023)
Claus Mullie
Stewardship and membership coordinator (2019-2024)
Elena Findley-de Regt
Communications coordinator (2019-2024)
Jan Ainali
Codebase steward(2019-2024)
Eric Herman
Lead codebase steward(2019-2024)
Mirjam van Tiel
Finance executive(2019)
Alba Roza
Codebase steward for communites(2020-2021)
Deborah Meibergen
Operations coordinator(2020-2021)
Laura Scheske
Membership developer(2020-2021)
Felix Faassen
Codebase steward(2020-2021)
Kehinde Bademosi
Creative director
(2021-2024)
Who we are
We’re a multidisciplinary team with many years of experience in government digital transformation, open source and building collaborative networks.
Chapters
The Foundation for Public Code is a federation of chapter non-profit organizations, which all participate in an umbrella governing model. They share knowledge and open resources, foster international collaboration, and participate in local funding and governance structures in their respective domains.
At the broadest level, our vision of success is an ecosystem of evolving public products, well-governed and financially sustainable collaborations producing higher quality, transparent, and efficient software for the public sector.
Foundation for Public Code vereniging (met volledige rechtsbevoegdheid) is a member owned association registered under chamber of commerce (KvK) registration 74996452 and with identification number (RSIN) 860102294. We're recognized as a public benefit organization (ANBI) by the Dutch Tax and Customs Administration.
North American Chapter
Foundation for Public Code North AmericaLos Angeles, California, USA
Foundation for Public Code North America is a non-profit organization registered in the state of Delaware, United States. We're recognized federally as a public charity under Internal Revenue Code (IRC) Section 501(c)(3) with identification number (EIN) 92-2324481.
Audrey Tang
Digital Minister of Taiwan
Dan Hill
Director of Melbourne School of Design, former Director of Strategic Design, Vinnova
Gabriella Gómez-Mont
Principal at Experimentalista, former Chief Creative Officer of Mexico City
Leslie Hawthorn
(Chair) Manager, Vertical Community Strategy, Red Hat Open Source Program Office
History of the Foundation for Public Code
The Foundation for Public Code was founded by Ben Cerveny, Boris van Hoytema and Arnout Schuijff in 2019, to guide international collaboration among public organizations around codebase design, quality and governance.
Leveraging 30 combined years of experience working with cities and technology-enabled collaboration, Boris and Ben recognized policy and whitepapers were insufficient catalysts in this space. Their landscape analysis revealed that stewardship was the key to converting the massive public investment in open source and collaboration into long-term, sustainable implementation.
Based on their experience of technological innovation in a traditional industry, Pieter van der Does and Arnout Schuijff (co-founders of the Adyen payments platform) agreed with Ben and Boris that public organizations deserved better software. They joined the Board of Directors to share their expertise and connections.
Boris van Hoytema
Chief executive
(2019-2023)
Claus Mullie
Stewardship and membership coordinator (2019-2024)
Elena Findley-de Regt
Communications coordinator (2019-2024)
Jan Ainali
Codebase steward(2019-2024)
Eric Herman
Lead codebase steward(2019-2024)
Mirjam van Tiel
Finance executive(2019)
Alba Roza
Codebase steward for communites(2020-2021)
Deborah Meibergen
Operations coordinator(2020-2021)
Laura Scheske
Membership developer(2020-2021)
Felix Faassen
Codebase steward(2020-2021)
Kehinde Bademosi
Creative director
(2021-2024)