Open Source

Tools and Services

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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Open Source —A federal government community interested in source code and open source software (OSS).
U.S. Web Design System —Making it easier to build accessible, mobile-friendly government websites for the public.
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 …

News and Events on Open Source

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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

Acquisition

Experimenting with the Micro-Purchase Threshold

Utilizing the increased threshold, and what we learned.

Omid Ghaffari-Tabrizi

Apr 24, 2020

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Cloud.gov

Intro to Cloud Foundry on Cloud.gov

A look at the open source cloud application platform behind Cloud.gov

Mar 31, 2020

Video

Federal Crowdsourcing Webinar Series, Episode 7: Crowdsourcing for Code

Learn how the Code.gov team, and every day contributors, are helping the U.S. government to expand its repository—and application—of open-source code as part of Code.gov’s Open Tasks initiative.

Tammy White

Feb 11, 2020

Code.gov breaks down the latest USWDS 2.0 release with highlights of the most important features that will help teams build better websites for the American public. — via Code.gov

Jun 10, 2019

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An Introduction to the U.S. Data Federation

Find out how the U.S. Data Federation’s work can help you. The team will give an introduction to the problems the U.S. Data Federation seeks to address, describe its approach, and share its vision for the future of the initiative.

Amy Mok

Julia Lindpaintner

Phil Ashlock

Apr 17, 2019

Q&A With Ryan Day About GSA’s API Strategy

These new API standards will make it easier for GSA staff to launch and maintain good APIs.

Gray Brooks

Ryan Day

Mar 27, 2019

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Free & Open Source Software in Government with Code.mil

Join the Code.mil team for a discussion on open source in government and a look at the important work they have been doing on Code.mil to enable greater adoption of open source at the DoD.

Ari Chivukula

Jordan Kasper

Jun 05, 2018

Video

Workshop: Making Government Websites with GitHub, Federalist & U.S. Web Design Standards

Come learn how to create a simple, compliant government website, using Federalist, GitHub and the U.S. Web Design Standards.

Will Slack

David Warren

Dec 12, 2017

Vets.gov: A Modern Software Development Environment in Government

When people think of government software, they often think of COBOL and PowerBuilder 5, with manual software deploys every three to six months on a fixed number of machines in a government-run data center. This perception is sometimes justified, but sometimes entirely wrong. Regardless, the perception makes many developers reluctant to work for the government

Alex Yale-Loehr

Raquel Romano

Jul 03, 2017

Fractal and Federalist Join the U.S. Web Design Standards

We’ve recently added two powerful tools to the U.S. Web Design Standards development workflow that allow us to preview, test, and publish the Standards code more quickly and easily. Fractal Fractal is a powerful and flexible framework for building interactive component libraries. It’s similar to Jekyll (which we use to publish the Standards site) in

Shawn Allen

Jun 13, 2017