Who is controlling your control system?
Best practices for security administration of control systems and their components. Specific guidance and lessons learned from a federal information system manager.
Open Source
Tools and Services
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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 data management.
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Code.gov
A collection of federal source code including open source software.
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Data.gov
Data, tools, and resources to conduct research, develop web and mobile applications.
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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 American public.
Join a Community of Practice
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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.
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Application Programming Interfaces (APIs)
Working to advance the cause of APIs in the federal government.
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OpenGov
The Interagency Open Government Community of Practice is where we talk about transparency, open-participation, and collaboration across agencies.
News and Events on Open Source
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Communicators
Supporting inclusive language through automation
Join us as we learn about our Inclusion Bot and how it helps to create an inclusive culture in the workplace.
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Hosted by Digital.gov and the Communicators Community of Practice
2023
18F Checks in With the Dawson Project at the U.S. Tax Court
In December 2020, the United States Tax Court introduced DAWSON, a modern open-source case management system developed with assistance from an industry partner and 18F. DAWSON streamlined Court operations and changed the way the public interacts with the Court. — via 18F
Making sense: Cognition, perception, and design
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Hosted by Digital.gov and the U.S. Web Design System
2023
Join us as we take a deep dive into USWDS design tokens. We’ll cover: what they are, how they’re used, and how you can adapt them to your branding needs.
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Hosted by Digital.gov and the U.S. Web Design System
2023
Join the Design System team as we tackle your most commonly-asked questions.
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2023
A look back at what took place in the Design System in 2022.
Hosted by Digital.gov and the U.S. Web Design System
2022
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
New resources for developers who are new to USWDS.
Hosted by Digital.gov and the U.S. Web Design System
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.
Get started with the design system and a how-to demo of template creation and a prototyping approach.
Hosted by Digital.gov and the U.S. Web Design System
2021
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.
This month’s topic: Community, Connection & Contribution. How can our community help teams solve problems together?
Hosted by Digital.gov and the U.S. Web Design System
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.
This summit brings together the federal community to share success stories and best practices for utilizing federal source code and open source software, and examine the implementation of the Federal Source Code policy.
Hosted by Digital.gov and the Code.gov
2020
Program managers, IT acquisitions leads, and business-minded IT professionals will receive in-depth guidance to improve cloud efficiency, optimization, and effective cost controls.
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Hosted by Digital.gov and the cloud.gov
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
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
Acquisition
Experimenting with the Micro-Purchase Threshold
Through the use of an open-source procurement process, we created an experiment others can replicate to encourage Agile thinking.
Cloud.gov
Intro to Cloud Foundry on Cloud.gov
In this workshop, we demonstrate the basics of using the Cloud.gov platform as a developer.
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Hosted by Digital.gov and the Cloud.gov
2020
