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It was all written at once, during the pre-production phase. We had daily meetings to brainstorm settings, characters, goals, puzzles, etc. The next day Peter Chan would come in wi…

(I work for 18F but don't officially represent it here.) The site is hosted via Federalist ( https://federalist.18f.gov/ ) a SaaS which runs on top of sibling Platform as a Service…

I work at 18F. I have never been drug-tested. It's not a requirement for the job.

You listed two IaaS provider and one SaaS provider. cloud.gov is a PaaS provider. There is no FedRAMP PaaS available to agencies, and PaaS is the level of abstraction needed to acc…

Good eyes, will see if we can fix that.

We are using AWS GovCloud for our base IaaS layer, but we run a PaaS layer on top based on Cloud Foundry... That's the actual cloud.gov service being provided, the location on AWS …

I said "through a special hiring authority" above but that's inaccurate, sorry for the mix-up... We use the normal GS scale.

You're right, everyone is on the hook for their own agency, and with such strict regulations they are very conservative about using each other's stuff, which is effectively delegat…

(And yes, sending a resume is how you get started.)

We're recruiting actively across many disciplines. 18F employs a huge range of amazing people with diverse histories from both inside and outside of government. Everyone is an impa…

We can't control the decisions they make, and wouldn't want to... Each agency has their own CIO, and needs to be able to make decisions about stacks based their needs. Compliance r…

Google for "cloud to butt extension"

I LOL'd... I had the same extension installed, but had to uninstall it when I saw the word constantly as part of my job.

Are you positive about that? :) https://books.google.com/books?id=bWI7AAAAIAAJ&pg=PA10&lpg=P...

I'm the product lead on cloud.gov... Thanks for noticing us! There are other Cloud Foundry deployments, but what makes cloud.gov special is the focus on ensuring federal agencies a…

Check out Mattermost. Sadly missing some enterprise-friendly features like SAML auth as yet.

Yes, that is the scope and intent for now, although there is potential for state agencies to make use of it as well.

Good point... I'll make the GIF a link back to the original YouTube video. EDIT: Which is here, by the way! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n6u4WjYaX2Q

[Author of the 18F blog post here] Accessibility and L10N are app-level concerns, not something that cloud.gov is going to be able to help with. However, 18F works on other efforts…