The People's Code

#1

Post by rmason » Fri, Nov 04, 2016, 1:08 AM UTC

Re: The People's Code

#2

Post by steanne » Fri, Nov 04, 2016, 1:25 AM UTC

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Re: The People's Code

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Post by kensai » Fri, Nov 04, 2016, 1:25 AM UTC

"The Federal Source Code Policy is designed to support reuse and public access to custom-developed Federal source code. It requires new custom-developed source code developed specifically by or for the Federal Government to be made available for sharing and re-use across all Federal agencies. It also includes an Open Source Pilot Program that requires agencies to release at least 20% of new custom-developed Federal source code to the public."

That's really nice, but I think the 20% is too little. It should be at least 50%. They could still keep a critical low percentage secret.

Re: The People's Code

#4

Post by thinkcomp » Fri, Nov 04, 2016, 1:26 AM UTC

How about open PACER?

Re: The People's Code

#5

Post by random_rr » Fri, Nov 04, 2016, 1:31 AM UTC

kensai wrote: post #3

"The Federal Source Code Policy is designed to support reuse and public access to custom-developed Federal source code. It requires new custom-developed source code developed specifically by or for the Federal Government to be made available for sharing and re-use across all Federal agencies. It also includes an Open Source Pilot Program that requires agencies to release at least 20% of new custom-developed Federal s…

20% is a LOT! Consider the amount of work it takes to open-source things. It's a huge step forward.

Re: The People's Code

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Post by neom » Fri, Nov 04, 2016, 1:31 AM UTC

This is awesome! At work we're trying to help with this at the municiapl level, it's hard so it's really great to see it coming from the Fed. Shout out to Becky Sweger[1] from 18F who has been instrumental in helping move things forward, talking about open data and open code.

[1] https://twitter.com/bendystraw

Re: The People's Code

#7

Post by former_govt » Fri, Nov 04, 2016, 1:32 AM UTC

I admire the work that 18F is doing, and live in the DC area, even contracted for the government early in my career -- but I can never go back. I just fundamentally disagree with the security clearance apparatus is in place and never want to subject myself to that again. Especially when purely private companies pay more and don't care what you do in your personal time.

Working for the government felt like being a child again.

Re: The People's Code

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Post by qwertyuiop924 » Fri, Nov 04, 2016, 1:35 AM UTC

Most of the code looks fairly dull and single-purpose. Except NASA's code, as you may expect. Trick and OpenMCT both look at least interesting, and OpenMCT in particular could be used as the basis for many an interesting web-based project.

Re: The People's Code

#9

Post by joshdotsmith » Fri, Nov 04, 2016, 1:40 AM UTC

I really like the work of folks at 18F, USDS, CFPB, et al.

Bearing in mind that I'm ecstatic to see this collection of projects and someone clearly put a lot of time and effort into this already, I do have couple points of hopefully constructive feedback here:

- Please list all of your repositories and feature ones that you think deserve special recognition. Seeing all your repos is a 4-step process otherwise: click on the project, click on the link, click on the acknowledgement that I clicked a link, click on the organization name on GitHub. [1]

- Some information on contribution policies, pulling in your README.md, etc would be helpful on this site. [2]

- When I click on the link to go to your repo, I know I'm clicking a link that leaves your site. You even say so. "But you probably knew that already." Don't hijack it, please. [3]

- The activity feed doesn't provide much value in its current form. Most of these GitHub events are completely without context. [4]

EDIT:

I've since opened the following issues on https://github.com/presidential-innovation-fellows/code-gov-.... Anyone who has feedback, definitely let them know (kindly!).

[1] https://github.com/presidential-innovation-fellows/code-gov-...

[2] https://github.com/presidential-innovation-fellows/code-gov-...

[3] https://github.com/presidential-innovation-fellows/code-gov-...

[4] https://github.com/presidential-innovation-fellows/code-gov-...

Re: The People's Code

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Post by joshdotsmith » Fri, Nov 04, 2016, 1:43 AM UTC

random_rr wrote: post #5

kensai wrote: post #3

"The Federal Source Code Policy is designed to support reuse and public access to custom-developed Federal source code. It requires new custom-developed source code developed specifically by or for the Federal Government to be made available for sharing and re-use across all Federal agencies. It also includes an Open Source Pilot Program that requires agencies to release at least 20% of new custom-developed Federal s…

20% is a LOT! Consider the amount of work it takes to open-source things. It's a huge step forward.

What do you think takes the most effort to make these projects open source? If this were the policy for all new projects, why would that be difficult?