Dear OpenZaak community members,

We see our role as ["Providing long term product sustainability"](https://about.publiccode.net/activities/codebase-stewardship/goals#providing-long-term-product-sustainability) in codebase stewardship. We should provide this infrastructure to the entire community as that lies outside of the mandate of any individual organization whilst everyone depends on it for their operational continuity.

As you know during the last technical steering meeting important issues were raised concerning the existing testing and deployment infrastructure. Due to a change in the business model of the services used, the OpenZaak test and deployment infrastructure will become unavailable if no action is taken.

In the short term, we propose to take over responsibility for the existing infrastructure. We can do this by paying for the services. In the mid-to-longer term we strongly recommend a transition to another more open and accessible platform.

To achieve a healthy and strong community around OpenZaak, regardless of what's stated above, we request public organizations to become members of the Foundation for Public Code Vereniging. Membership is an investment in the social and technical infrastructures to achieve the goals of OpenZaak and open source in gemeenten.

We propose to take over the Travis and DockerHub accounts and are ready to operationalize this as soon as that happens. Please let us know how you think about this and let's discuss how we can move this forward.

Kind regards,

Eric & Felix
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Eric Herman, Lead codebase steward for quality
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