What happens after open sourcing? Do people from elsewhere actually show up, to ask questions, find bugs, and help out? Six weeks ago, the Federal IT Dashboard was open-sourced. We assisted in that release (see our post) because we strongly believe that open collaboration is the natural path for government software, and because the IT [...]
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U.S. DOD releases “Open Technology Development Guide”.
The U.S. Department of Defense has just released a pretty amazing document: “Open Technology Development: Lessons Learned and Best Practices”. (Warning: if you don’t like reading rave reviews, stop now.) In the words of RedHat’s Gunnar Hellekson: It’s a handbook for using and making open source in the DOD and the US Government, sponsored by [...]
The Federal IT Dashboard is Open Sourced!
As promised, the code for the federal IT Dashboard has now been released to the public as open source software. Any government can use it — for that matter, any contractor can pick up the code and offer deployment or other services based on it, which is a key ingredient for making it usable in practice by [...]
The Next Big Step for Civic Commons: Looking for an Executive Director
Civic Commons was born, appropriately, because several people had the same idea at the same time, and were able to pool their resources to get something off the ground. So far it has run as an informal consortium, led by the Office of the CTO of the District of Columbia, Code for America, and OpenPlans. [...]
Civic Commons Launch Video and Deck
Last week we were thrilled to launch Civic Commons at the Gov 2.0 Summit, sponsored by O’Reilly and UBM TechWeb. District of Columbia CTO Bryan Sivak and Director of CivicWorks for Open Plans Nick Grossman presented an overview of the need, goals, and role of the new organization. For those of you who couldn’t make [...]
Introducing Civic Commons
As budget shrink and IT expenses rise at equally alarming rates, governmental agencies at all levels are facing crisis. Some have been fortunate enough to afford innovations to promote efficiency, but many others are left to take on their challenges without guidance, funding, or support. There are over 21,000 local jurisdictions in the United States, and some [...]
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