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Share & reuse open source code from the Federal Government

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Jason Shen
As a 2013 Presidential Innovation Fellow, I saw how hard the Obama administration was working to make the Federal Government a more open and transparent entity. It's not easy! There are so many agencies and a lot of people with differing opinions about the value (and effort) of making things open and transparent. This platform, built by 2015 and 2016 Presidential Innovation Fellows, members of the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy and many others, is a collection of custom-built code that was written for the Federal Government and making that code open-source so that other agencies and people anywhere can share, reuse, and contribute to that code. I'll let the makers chime in with more details!
Mitch
@jasonshen as a contractor for the USGS working on web mapping applications, I agree. The team I work with works with so many different federal agencies outside of the USGS, and nobody can ever agree on anything ever.
Mike Coutermarsh
To me, the most incredible part of this is how much time/$$$ it's going to save gov agencies when building software. It's really mind blowing how awesome this is. In "startup land", we're constantly reusing and contributing to as much open source as possible. It's saves huge amounts of time & we can get way more done with less people. Prior to initiatives like code.gov (digital service, 18F), they'd have multiple departments working on projects / not sharing code. Essentially spending money on building the same/similar software over and over again in different parts of the government. Imagine writing a new cloud/deployment pipeline each time you have a new project. Or a new html/css framework for every website. It doesn't make any sense. Reuse is going to be a HUGE time/$$$ saver. Love it.
Mike Coutermarsh
To learn more, this talk from GitHub universe is a great intro.
Matija Abicic
It would be cool if NSA shared some of the code...
Michael Balint
They do! https://github.com/NationalSecur... - We're building out an API that will have a more comprehensive collection of repositories. What we have right now is a smaller, selected list.

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