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Re: Cloud.gov

#101
post #41

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https://github.com/18F/chat Seems like the Slack invite app is not deployed to cloud.gov right now.

It's down for some internal IT reasons, but should be back up at some point soon (but not this weekend).

Since whole platform is open source, I wonder why Slack? Why not Mattermost[1]?

[1] http://www.mattermost.org/

Re: Cloud.gov

#102
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Re: Cloud.gov

#103
post #75

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For what it's worth, I applied to work with 18F late last year. I'm a web developer with a wide array of skills - front-end, back-end, and even UI/UX design, product design, and some marketing and management - with about 8 years of experience, mostly doing independent consulting with a couple years at a SF startup in there. I'm also very civic minded, doing a bunch of pro-bono work and (since) getting involved in com…

If your in it for the mission, not the money consider applying as a Code For America fellow: https://www.codeforamerica.org/do-something/work-with-us There are a lot of cities that could use your help. I am in no way connected with them but am a huge fan of their mission.

I would do it, but why do they have to base you in SF? You should be able to stay local to where you are actually helping.

Re: Cloud.gov

#104
As someone who develops for a Gov't agency, this is the wrong move. So much money has been spent on mimicking the private sector innovators. Millions and millions of tax dollars spent on these type of projects.

The focus really needs to be on building a process to better integrate private cloud services and gov't applications. I mean they already are for the most part: https://aws.amazon.com/compliance/fedramp/

https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/TrustCenter/Compliance/FedRA...

http://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20160229005262/en/Serv...

Seriously this is just another wasteful program. The Gov't and 18F will hype it up, but don't be fooled.

Re: Cloud.gov

#105

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 are actually able to use it. Federal compliance for a cloud service provider is a tough bar to clear, and without it most agencies are simply unable to take advantage of capabilities the rest of the world now takes for granted. That in turn…

> are simply unable to take advantage of capabilities the rest of the world takes for granted

A major argument in favor of PACER is its high-availability. Hopefully this makes it easier to build a better system with the same high-availability but a much better UX.

Re: Cloud.gov

#106
post #104

As someone who develops for a Gov't agency, this is the wrong move. So much money has been spent on mimicking the private sector innovators. Millions and millions of tax dollars spent on these type of projects. The focus really needs to be on building a process to better integrate private cloud services and gov't applications. I mean they already are for the most part: https://aws.amazon.com/compliance/fedramp/ https…

> So much money has been spent on mimicking the private sector innovators.

They're using open source Cloud Foundry, literally to avoid spending millions of dollars mimicking the private sector innovators.

Re: Cloud.gov

#107
post #75

Earlier quoted context omitted.

If your in it for the mission, not the money consider applying as a Code For America fellow: https://www.codeforamerica.org/do-something/work-with-us There are a lot of cities that could use your help. I am in no way connected with them but am a huge fan of their mission.

I would do it, but why do they have to base you in SF? You should be able to stay local to where you are actually helping.

I think there might be state-based chapters? My friends here are actually part of "Code for Maine."

Re: Cloud.gov

#108
post #93

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 are actually able to use it. Federal compliance for a cloud service provider is a tough bar to clear, and without it most agencies are simply unable to take advantage of capabilities the rest of the world now takes for granted. That in turn…

This is totally a minor thing, but I feel like the icons halfway down the page are off-by-one: http://i.imgur.com/bXTZqOZ.png That is, the arrowbox thingie for scalability, the lock for security, etc?

Good eyes, will see if we can fix that.

Re: Cloud.gov

#109
I apologize but browsing first thing in the morning, was I the only one who assumed this was a joke?

Re: Cloud.gov

#110
post #104

As someone who develops for a Gov't agency, this is the wrong move. So much money has been spent on mimicking the private sector innovators. Millions and millions of tax dollars spent on these type of projects. The focus really needs to be on building a process to better integrate private cloud services and gov't applications. I mean they already are for the most part: https://aws.amazon.com/compliance/fedramp/ https…

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 accelerate delivery of services the government itself provides.

We also leverage the fact that AWS GovCloud already has FedRAMP status as an IaaS to accelerate our delivery of cloud.gov (which sits on top of it), so we're piggy-backing on the money and effort already spent and eliminating the millions we would otherwise spend by having the government run the IaaS layer.

In other words...

> The focus really needs to be on building a process to better integrate private cloud services and gov't applications.

...that's what we're doing!

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