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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.

Posts by Alan Atlas Posts by Bridget Fields Posts by Mark Hopson Posts by Michelle McNellis Posts by Omid Ghaffari-Tabrizi

Apr 24, 2020

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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Posts by Steve Greenberg

Mar 31, 2020 2020

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.

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Posts by Tammy White

Feb 11, 2020 2020

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

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.

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Posts by Amy Mok Posts by Julia Lindpaintner Posts by Phil Ashlock

Apr 17, 2019 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.

Posts by Gray Brooks Posts by Ryan Day

Mar 27, 2019

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.

Posts by Ari Chivukula Posts by Jordan Kasper

Jun 05, 2018 2018

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.

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Posts by Will Slack Posts by David Warren

Dec 12, 2017 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

Posts by Alex Yale-Loehr Posts by 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

Posts by Shawn Allen

Jun 13, 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

Posts by 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

Posts by David Chiles

Nov 18, 2016

The Digital Transition: How the Presidential Transition Works in the Social Media Age

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.

Posts by 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

Posts by Yoz Grahame

Sep 28, 2016

NASA Space Apps Challenge: 2016 Global Winners!

We’re thrilled to announce the Space Apps 2016 Global Award Winners!! These projects well represent the best of the best innovative thinking this year. Congratulations to all the teams. We look forward to seeing you at an upcoming NASA launch in Florida.

Posts by Beth Beck

Jun 27, 2016

Collaboration and Innovation, Beyond Government Borders

How to start an innovation movement: Connect innovators with fellow innovators, and find more innovators to collaborate with.

Posts by Ashley Wichman

Jun 10, 2016

Three Teams Using the Draft U.S. Web Design Standards Talk about Their Experiences

In the five months since we launched the Draft U.S. Web Design Standards, over a dozen government websites have begun to use it.

Posts by Melody Kramer

Apr 06, 2016

The Data Briefing: Three Significant Events in Federal Open Data This Past Week

Three recent stories demonstrate how opening up federal government data and using agile methods to create federal government software can spur innovation while saving tax money and helping the American public.

Posts by Bill Brantley

Mar 23, 2016

Leveraging American Ingenuity through Reusable and Open Source Software

Summary: Today, we’re releasing for public comment a draft policy to support improved access to custom software code developed for the Federal Government. America has long been a nation of innovators. American scientists, engineers and entrepreneurs invented the microchip, created the Internet, invented the smartphone, started the revolution in biotechnology, and sent astronauts to the

Posts by Tony Scott

Mar 10, 2016

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