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Resources on Code
An Introduction to GitHub —How to use GitHub in easy, practical steps to create, manage and publish website content.
An Introduction to USWDS 2.0 —A design system for the federal government.
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USWDS Maturity Model —How to adopt the design system incrementally and design and build better digital experiences.
Tools and Services
18F —We help government agencies fix technical problems, build products, and improve how government serves the public through technology.
Presidential Innovation Fellows —We help government agencies fix technical problems, build products, and improve how government serves the public through technology.
Resources.Data.gov —An online repository of policies, schema standards, tools, best practices, and case studies to provide agencies with resources for federal …
U.S. Digital Service —We deploy small, responsive groups of designers, engineers, product managers, and bureaucracy specialists to work with and empower civil …
Code.gov —A collection of federal source code including open source software.
Data.gov —Data, tools, and resources to conduct research, develop web and mobile applications.
DotGov Registry —We make it easy to register and manage a .gov domain for US-based government organizations.
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U.S. Web Design System —A toolkit of principles, guidance, and code that helps agency digital teams build accessible, mobile-friendly government websites for the …
Join a Community of Practice
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Open Source —A federal government community interested in source code and open source software (OSS).
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U.S. Web Design System Community —Making it easier to build accessible, mobile-friendly government websites for the public.
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APIs —Working to advance the cause of APIs in the federal government
News and Events on Code
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Spotlight Story: Pioneering Open Source at the CFPB—Open source software is a fundamental aspect of how the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau has served the public in its short history. In April of 2012, nine months after opening its doors, they released their source code policy, based on the work of the Department of Defense, along with their first two open source projects. Just six days later, they accepted their first pull request. Though a minor change, this was the first documented contribution to a federal government open source codebase by a member of the public. — via Code.gov
USWDS Monthly Call: Form Components Update
Intro to GitHub for Content Creation with Malaika Carpenter — In this live training, Content Strategy and Design Specialist for GSA’s Technology Transformation Services (TTS), Malaika Carpenter, breaks down how to use GitHub into easy, practical steps and demonstrates ways to use this tool to create, manage and publish website content. — via Digital.gov
Making .gov More Secure by Default — The DotGov Program announces its intent to preload the .gov top-level domain in order to protect .gov site visitors. — via DotGov Registry
Federal Source Code Study Series — Read the first article of the Federal Source Codes Study (FSCS) series. The FSCS was a three-year study that examined the federal government’s effort in implementing the Federal Source Code Policy and open sourcing software. — via Code.gov
