Open Source

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Resources.Data.gov —An online repository of policies, schema standards, tools, best practices, and case studies to provide agencies with resources for federal …
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.
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 …

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U.S. Web Design System —A community for anyone building federal websites with the U.S. Web Design System (USWDS) or considering it for a future project.
Application Programming Interfaces (APIs) —Working to advance the cause of APIs in the federal government
OpenGov —The Interagency Open Government Community of Practice is where we talk about transparency, open-participation, and collaboration across …
Open Source —A federal government community interested in source code and open source software (OSS).

News and Events on Open Source

58 posts

The 18F Engineering Sandwich for Cloud-based Web Apps

The 18F Engineering Sandwich for Cloud-based Web Apps—18F Engineering is often thought of as a technology shop, but that’s too broad. There are very few technology choices we actually make at the project level, so, more often than not, we combine a limited set of technologies to make our applications. To explain this, we’ll use the metaphor of a sandwich shop. — via 18F

Sep 06, 2022

User Experience

Open-source Information Architecture Design: Using the Tools You Have To Conduct Card Sorting and Tree Testing

Learn how we used GitHub to conduct a card sort and tree testing to improve the information architecture for onrr.gov.

Shannon McHarg

Maroya Faied

Lindsay Goldstein

Jan 06, 2022

USWDS

Webinar Recap: U.S. Web Design System October 2021 Monthly Call

In this recap of the October 2021 U.S. Web Design System (USWDS) Monthly Call, the USWDS team shares how their community can help teams solve problems together, and what tools and channels we can use to ask questions, get answers, and provide useful feedback.

Dan Williams

Kathryn Mullan

Nov 15, 2021

Acquisition

Discovery BPA Evaluation Process: How to Operationalize this Practice

This guide provides acquisition professionals the steps and resources needed to operationalize the evaluation process developed for the Discovery BPA.

Bridget Fields

Omid Ghaffari-Tabrizi

Michelle McNellis

Ashley Owens

Rebecca Refoy

Oct 26, 2020

cloud.gov

Operating Cloud Services Efficiently with Business-Driven IT

Program managers, IT acquisitions leads, and business-minded IT professionals will receive in-depth guidance to improve cloud efficiency, optimization, and effective cost controls.

Ron Williams

Sep 22, 2020

Spotlight Story: Pioneering Open Source at the CFPB

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

Jul 23, 2020

Federal Source Code Study Series

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

May 27, 2020