Contributing (with) civil servants

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Differences between public-sector (civil servant) contributors and individual or corporate open-source contributors, focusing on how government processes, expectations and accountability shape how public workers publish and maintain code under free licenses. Covers concrete causes of friction—organizational behavior, legal and societal constraints—and offers practical mindset and tools for volunteers to adapt when submitting merge requests to projects managed by public organizations.

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