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},{"title" :"Open Source Micro-Purchasing: An Experiment in Federal Acquisition","summary" : "18F is an open-source team. We currently have hundreds of publicly available repositories, with dozens under active development. We’ve had numerous contributions from colleagues within government, and contributions from members of the public. But in the next few weeks, we are going to run an experiment: we want to contract for contributions. And we want","date" : "2015-10-16T13:36:47-0500","date_modified" : "2025-01-27T19:42:55-05:00","authors" : {"v-david-zvenyach" : "Dave Zvenyach"},"topics" : {
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},{"title" :"18F’s Style Guide for Open Source Project Documentation","summary" : "We routinely publish our best practices in the 18F Guides, and today we’re happy to launch a new one: the 18F Open Source Style Guide. The Open Source Style Guide is a comprehensive handbook for writing clear, accessible, and user-friendly documentation so that","date" : "2015-08-03T10:00:04-0500","date_modified" : "2025-01-27T19:42:55-05:00","authors" : {"melody-kramer" : "Melody Kramer"},"topics" : {
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"open-source" : "Open source",
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},{"title" :"Trends on Tuesday: Trends in CMS","summary" : "A Content Management System (CMS) allows people to easily publish, maintain and update information online. Choosing a CMS (or deciding whether you need one at all) is one that many agencies have faced. It’s not an easy choice because there are many solutions available to content managers. As government agencies, the majority of content we deliver is","date" : "2015-07-07T11:57:30-0500","date_modified" : "2025-01-27T19:42:55-05:00","authors" : {"kdaniel" : "Kendrick Daniel"},"topics" : {
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"emerging-tech" : "Emerging tech",
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},{"title" :"US, Canada, and Mexico Collaborate to Improve Open Government and Digital Services","summary" : "Many forces are converging to strengthen the political, economic and commercial ties that bind the United States, Canada and Mexico. The GSA Office of Citizen Services and Innovative Technologies (OCSIT) has anticipated this drive toward collaboration for decades, building a network of links among the three nations’ Chief Information Officers and other national technology and data experts.","date" : "2015-03-13T11:10:14-0500","date_modified" : "2025-01-27T19:42:55-05:00","authors" : {"darlene-meskell" : "Darlene Meskell"},"topics" : {
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"open-data" : "Open data",
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},{"title" :"Saving Energy, One Green Button at a Time","summary" : "Conserving energy is not a shot in the dark. Millions of people can now shine a light on their electricity usage as a result of a dynamic public-private partnership based on open data. The goal of the Green Button Initiative is to provide electricity customers with access to their energy usage data in an easy-to-understand","date" : "2015-02-04T10:00:18-0500","date_modified" : "2025-01-27T19:42:55-05:00","authors" : {"awichman" : "Ashley Wichman"},"topics" : {
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},{"title" :"Challenge \u0026 Prize Competition Round-Up","summary" : "Recap of the 2014 Challenge and Prize competition events hosted by DigitalGov","date" : "2014-12-23T10:00:54-0500","date_modified" : "2025-01-27T19:42:55-05:00","authors" : {"apiazza" : "Alycia Piazza"},"topics" : {
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},{"title" :"Large Scale Development Culture Change: Google and the U.S. Government","summary" : "As part of 18F’s mission to deliver effective, user-centric services focused on the interaction between government and the people and businesses it serves, we are also committed to demonstrating how open source and agile-inspired methodologies are critical to an effective, efficient, modern delivery process. We believe these methods produce better software and services at lower","date" : "2014-12-22T10:05:52-0500","date_modified" : "2025-01-27T19:42:55-05:00","authors" : {"mike-bland" : "Mike Bland"},"topics" : {
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"user-experience" : "User experience"
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},{"title" :"Keeping Peace Corps Volunteers Healthy, One Text at a Time","summary" : "Today, refilling your medicine cabinet with bandages and over the counter medicine from your local drugstore may seem like a trivial task, but for Peace Corps volunteers working in remote villages around the world, this task can be much more challenging. As we take steps to forge a 21st century","date" : "2014-11-03T13:53:23-0500","date_modified" : "2025-01-27T19:42:55-05:00","authors" : {"brian-forde" : "Brian Forde","carrie-hessler-radelet" : "Carrie Hessler-Radelet"},"topics" : {
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},{"title" :"Pillbox Google Hangout for Developers","summary" : "Tuesday, October 7 at 2pm ET, the National Library of Medicine at the National Institutes of Health will host a Google Hangout to talk about developing with the API, data, and open source code from Pillbox. I (Pillbox project manager), Mark Silverberg of Social Health","date" : "2014-10-06T11:00:48-0500","date_modified" : "2025-01-27T19:42:55-05:00","authors" : {"david-hale" : "David Hale"},"topics" : {
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"open-data" : "Open data",
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},{"title" :"Strategy Pivot Yields Results: DigitalGov.Gov Six Months Later","summary" : "Six months ago, we launched this DigitalGov.gov platform to support federal agencies in delivering 21st century digital services and information to the public. It seems a good time to share some of the thinking that went into the development of the platform, and what we’ve learned so far.","date" : "2014-09-12T12:00:02-0500","date_modified" : "2025-01-27T19:42:55-05:00","authors" : {"apiazza" : "Alycia Piazza","gwynne-kostin" : "Gwynne Kostin"},"topics" : {
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},{"title" :"Stacking Up the Benefits of Openness","summary" : "Open government, open source, openness. These words are often used in talking about open data, but we sometimes forget that the root of all of this is an open community. Individuals working together to release government data and put it to use to help their neighbors and reach new personal goals. This sense of community","date" : "2014-09-10T11:49:04-0500","date_modified" : "2025-01-27T19:42:55-05:00","authors" : {"jeanne-holm" : "Jeanne Holm"},"topics" : {
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"open-government" : "Open government",
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},{"title" :"Getting it Done with Open Opportunities: The Case of the Mobile Code Catalog","summary" : "Imagine open source code, publicly available to share, that jump starts your agency’s mobile development efforts. Pretty neat idea, huh? Well last year it became a reality with the Mobile Code Catalog. This idea was the brainchild of Mike Pulsifer, who, as the Technical Manager for the Division of Enterprise Communications, Office of Public Affairs,","date" : "2014-09-05T10:30:00-0500","date_modified" : "2025-01-27T19:42:55-05:00","authors" : {"jparcell" : "Jacob Parcell","lnelson" : "Lisa Nelson"},"topics" : {
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},{"title" :"Open Source Content Management Systems and Responsive Web Design Webinar Recap","summary" : "Most of us in the DigitalGov community recognize that responsive Web design is one approach to mobile first and most of us have a pretty clear picture of what it means—a responsive website will adjust to different devices, and the content will neatly change its layout from one screen size to another. But do you","date" : "2014-09-03T10:00:46-0500","date_modified" : "2025-01-27T19:42:55-05:00","authors" : {"ellen-arnold-losey" : "Ellen Arnold Losey"},"topics" : {
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},{"title" :"Help the Public Find Your Information, Wherever and However You’ve Published It","summary" : "As traffic to desktop .gov websites declines, how we publish our content increasingly matters. We need to meet people where they are as they seek information on the Internet. To do so, we need to adjust to the new world of mobile applications, social media, and instant answers provided by search engines. Freeing Content from","date" : "2014-08-26T11:00:35-0500","date_modified" : "2025-01-27T19:42:55-05:00","authors" : {"ammie-farraj-feijoo" : "Ammie Farraj Feijoo"},"topics" : {
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},{"title" :"The Contributor’s Guide to 18F: Code for the Common Good","summary" : "Introduction Transparency in coding makes code more secure. Open-source development is development in the light, sometimes a harsh light, that shows every blemish. At 18F we strongly believe this improves the rapidity of our coding and the quality and security of the code. We keep the code open to each other, which allows us to","date" : "2014-08-15T11:00:49-0500","date_modified" : "2025-01-27T19:42:55-05:00","authors" : {"dr-robert-read" : "Robert L. Read, PhD"},"topics" : {
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"open-source" : "Open source",
"software-engineering" : "Software engineering"
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},{"title" :"Packaging Up API Usability Testing for Agency Reuse","summary" : "Over the past year, a GSA collaboration has seen a project that offers API Usability Testing to federal agencies go from the pilot stage to a regular, robust series. Already, 13 agencies and programs have participated, and several more participate with every monthly session","date" : "2014-05-20T01:00:12-0500","date_modified" : "2025-01-27T19:42:55-05:00","authors" : {"gray-brooks" : "Gray Brooks"},"topics" : {
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},{"title" :"Designing in the Open Training Recap","summary" : "During the recent redesign of Data.gov, the team developed a process that helped them respond to public feedback, track the actions and hold themselves accountable. In a DigitalGov University webinar, “Designing in the Open—Public Participation in Government Web Design,” Phil Ashlock, chief architect at Data.gov, and Jeanne Holm, Data.gov evangelist, shared how integrating feedback from","date" : "2014-05-16T15:03:07-0500","date_modified" : "2025-01-27T19:42:55-05:00","authors" : {"andreanocesigritz" : "Andrea Sigritz"},"topics" : {
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},{"title" :"Analyzing Search Data in Real-Time to Drive Decisions","summary" : "DigitalGov Search recently rolled out a new open source technology stack, which gives the team access to real-time analytics and dashboards to monitor search trends.","date" : "2014-05-07T13:00:27-0500","date_modified" : "2025-01-27T19:42:55-05:00","authors" : {"andreanocesigritz" : "Andrea Sigritz"},"topics" : {
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},{"title" :"Content Management Systems Toolkit","summary" : "Improving the federal government’s ability to deliver digital information anytime, anywhere, on any device via open content is a key goal of the Digital Government Strategy. A content management system (CMS) can help your agency move to an open content model, making it easier for people to find, share, use, and re-use your information.","date" : "2013-10-30T08:45:15-0500","date_modified" : "2025-01-27T19:42:55-05:00","authors" : {"rflagg" : "Rachel Flagg"},"topics" : {
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