README.md

Awesome Germany

This list is about fiscal financed public projects or ones which are relevant for citizens.

Open source

• Official portal for public administration in Germany (OpenCoDE) by ZenDiS
  • The sovereign desk (openDesk) by ZenDiS
• German governmental organizations on GitHub
• Federal IT cooperation (FITKO)

Federal states

• Schleswig-Holstein

Cities

• Karlsruhe (Github)
• Munich
  • opensource.muenchen.de: Overview over open source activities of the city of Munich
  • LHM (OpenCoDE)
  • it@M (GitHub)
  • WollMux (GitHub): LibreOffice plugin with enhanced template, form, and autotext functionality
• Treuchtlingen (Codeberg)
• Ulm (GitHub)

Open data

• Official open data portal for Germany (GovData)
• Spacial Data Infrastructure Germany (SDI Germany)
• Statistical federal office
• Statistical offices
• Open data for public transport
• Open tourism data Germany
• German weather service

Standards

• XÖV standard for public administration data
• DELFI standard for public transport data

Libraries

• eID-Login: Plugins to implement login with the german passport ("Personalausweis")

APIs

• bund.dev: German government APIs (documented by the civic tech community)

Mobile apps

• AusweisApp2 (eID-Client)
• Corona-Warn-App
  • Inofficial fork without proprietary Google libraries

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Civic projects

• OParl: Open standard for machine-readable access to municipal council information systems
• meine-stadt-transparent: A website to bring municipal politics to citizens
• Consul: Open government and e-participation web software
• ckan: Open Data portal management system
• piveau: Open Data portal management system
• Mark-a-Spot: Crowdmapping, Coproduction and participation (e.g. report a problem)
• Masterportal: City map with custom layers
• GeoNetwork: Catalog application to manage spatially referenced resources
• GeoServer: Server for sharing geospatial data
• OpenStretMap: Open maps
• Democracy: App where citizens can vote on topics discussed in the German parliament ("Bundestag")
• Code for Germany: Civic projects helping digitalization in Germany
• publiccode.yml: Metadata standard for software repositories of Public Administration
• German Laws: German laws converted to Markdown format and tracked in a Git repository
• Data Guide: Guide and tools explaining how to use official German statistics sites
• FOSS Warn: App with official warnings
• Freifunk: Open communication networks

Other governments

• EU Open Code and Open Data portals
• Awesome Italia