Open Source

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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Ron Williams

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

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.

Omid Ghaffari-Tabrizi

Apr 24, 2020

In this workshop, we demonstrate the basics of using the Cloud.gov platform as a developer.

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Steve Greenberg

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.

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Tammy White

SUCCESS STORY: The U.S. Web Design System 2.0 from GSA

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

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.

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Amy Mok

Julia Lindpaintner

Phil Ashlock

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

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.

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Ari Chivukula

Jordan Kasper

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

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Will Slack

David Warren

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

Inspiring Data Forum at the Canadian Space Agency

Last [month], NASA Open Innovation Program Manager Dr. Beth Beck and her team traveled to the Canadian Space Agency (CSA) near Montreal, Canada to attend the Inspiring Data Forum graciously hosted by our Open Data neighbors to the North. The goal of this gathering was to bolster the working relationship between the two Space Agency’s

Jason Duley

Apr 10, 2017

Curate the Best Thinking Available

When I joined the code.gov project, I had just over a month to make an impact on the project. The most pressing work seemed to be defining a software metadata schema — a way for agencies to format the details of the software they’ve built. In August of this year, the Federal Source Code Policy

Theresa Summa

Nov 30, 2016

New Trademark App Open Source Code on GitHub

Improving the way the government delivers information technology (IT) solutions to its customers isn’t just a goal, it’s our mission. We at the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office know that by publishing our open source code, the public can help us come up with new and better IT solutions. In advance of the new Federal

David Chiles

Nov 18, 2016

The People’s Code – Now on Code.gov

Summary: Today we’re launching Code.gov so that our Nation can continue to unlock the tremendous potential of the Federal Government’s software. Over the past few years, we’ve taken unprecedented action to help Americans engage with their Government in new and meaningful ways. Using Vote.gov, citizens can now quickly navigate their state’s voter registration process through

Tony Scott

Nov 07, 2016

Take a look at how we plan to preserve and pass on the digital history of the Obama administration. President Obama is the first “social media president”: the first to have @POTUS on Twitter, the first to go live on Facebook from the Oval Office, the first to answer questions from citizens on YouTube.

Kori Schulman

Nov 02, 2016

The New Vote.gov: Leaner, Faster and Multi-Lingual

One year ago this week, we launched vote.gov (also known as vote.usa.gov). It’s a concise and simple site with a single mission: direct citizens through the voter registration process as quickly as possible. It was created by a joint team of USA.gov staffers and Presidential Innovation Fellows, all of whom work within the General Services

Yoz Grahame

Sep 28, 2016

Guidance for U.S. government websites and social media for:

Open Source

News and Events on Open Source

Operating Cloud Services Efficiently with Business-Driven IT

Federal Source Code Study Series

Experimenting with the Micro-Purchase Threshold

Intro to Cloud Foundry on Cloud.gov

Federal Crowdsourcing Webinar Series, Episode 7: Crowdsourcing for Code

SUCCESS STORY: The U.S. Web Design System 2.0 from GSA

An Introduction to the U.S. Data Federation

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

Free & Open Source Software in Government with Code.mil

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

Vets.gov: A Modern Software Development Environment in Government

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

Inspiring Data Forum at the Canadian Space Agency

Curate the Best Thinking Available

New Trademark App Open Source Code on GitHub

The People’s Code – Now on Code.gov

The New Vote.gov: Leaner, Faster and Multi-Lingual