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Healthcare.gov: Code by the People, for the People, Released Back to the People

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Re: Healthcare.gov: Code by the People, for the People, Released Back to the People

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The folks at Development Seed are doing really awesome work between Prose and MapBox and it's great to see them get some recognition for it. Also a great plug for Jekyll in general. While there can certainly be more worrisome factors than cost for a site, site performance should be one of the most important issues when launching. By completely getting rid of a backing database, page lookup times can be reduced dramat…

The folks at Development Seed are doing really awesome work I am also a member of the Development Seed fan club, having met many of the team members. Though, I feel like they should update their PR statement. Every time they are mentioned in an article, the Drupal past comes out: The startup first made its mark in the DC tech scene consulting on Drupal I think we can all agree that mentioning one's history working wi…

Their history with Drupal is a key part of their value story in DC, where Drupal is cutting edge--it is rapidly replacing expensive proprietary CMS solutions for many federal agencies and nonprofits.

Although it might be hard to believe here on HN, saying something is "reminiscent of Bay Area start-ups" means jack squat to the folks in DC who spend a lot of money on web projects.

Re: Healthcare.gov: Code by the People, for the People, Released Back to the People

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This has not been "iteratively created on Github". It has one commit and 1 commit only. Just sayin... https://github.com/CMSgov/healthcare.gov/commits/master Still cool its open sourced though.

From what I know of the project, CMS has a GitHub enterprise account that they used internally to "iteratively create on github," this Repo is the one that moved over after release. It's a big step to have government releasing ANYTHING on Github. And yes, it's the next logical step for them to start projects on GitHub. But they're not there yet -- its worth noting that neither Sunlight nor Code for America start thei…

Did GitHub go through FISMA certification for their public site? How are these govt agencies using the system to host code without getting the platform accredited?
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