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The White House just open sourced their first Github repo

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Re: The White House just open sourced their first Github repo

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Post by jbooth »

ef4 wrote: post #49

> "President Obama is committed to creating the most open and participatory government in our nation’s history" I'll believe that when his administration stops being one of the most secretive and most aggressive prosecutors of whistleblowers in recent history. Sources: http://www.salon.com/2012/02/09/obamas_unprecedented_war_on_... http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2012/06/obamas-whistlebl... http://tpmmuckraker.ta…

Less so than bush and presumably less so than Romney would be*

*if anyone wants to contest this, please read "no apologies" authored by Willard mitt Romney or just look at his tax returns

Re: The White House just open sourced their first Github repo

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Post by onewland »

jbooth wrote: post #61
ef4 wrote: post #49

> "President Obama is committed to creating the most open and participatory government in our nation’s history" I'll believe that when his administration stops being one of the most secretive and most aggressive prosecutors of whistleblowers in recent history. Sources: http://www.salon.com/2012/02/09/obamas_unprecedented_war_on_... http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2012/06/obamas-whistlebl... http://tpmmuckraker.ta…

Less so than bush and presumably less so than Romney would be* *if anyone wants to contest this, please read "no apologies" authored by Willard mitt Romney or just look at his tax returns

I'll contest that he's more so than Bush. http://www.salon.com/2011/05/16/whistleblowers_6/

Re: The White House just open sourced their first Github repo

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Post by spoondan »

sneak wrote: post #35
tokenizer wrote: post #31

Earlier quoted context omitted.

However, the point about the brain is accurate. While this is purely my own experience, two people I've known, have developed schizophrenia in their early twenties (when the onset usually occurs) and both had smoked pot heavily in their teens. I and many more friends however, have and continue to smoke pot with no ill effects save short term memory. Link: http://www.usatoday.com/yourlife/health/medical/pediatrics/2..…

This is not about marijuana. It's about the government ignoring high-signatory-count petitions. Stop with the red herring, please.

Actually, it's about the petition software being released on GitHub. Others have made this thread about the unrelated matter of how they dislike the government's use of this software.

Re: The White House just open sourced their first Github repo

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Post by mikey_p »

snowwrestler wrote: post #52

Just want to point out that this is not the first code contributed to open source from the WhiteHouse.gov project. Several of the Drupal modules developed for the site were made available to the community on Drupal.org not long after the new site launched. Some examples (may not be all of them): http://drupal.org/project/govdelivery http://drupal.org/project/akamai http://drupal.org/project/context_http_headers http:…

And specifically it includes a drupal-org.make file which is a manifest for the Drupal.org packaging system which bundles up this profile, all of it's dependencies, and Drupal core into a single download. Perhaps they are planning to put it there, or just decided to mirror it on Github for now.

Also FWIW, the petition namespace on d.o is already occupied, perhaps that is blocking the release on d.o?

Re: The White House just open sourced their first Github repo

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Post by freditup »

sneak wrote: post #35
tokenizer wrote: post #31

Earlier quoted context omitted.

However, the point about the brain is accurate. While this is purely my own experience, two people I've known, have developed schizophrenia in their early twenties (when the onset usually occurs) and both had smoked pot heavily in their teens. I and many more friends however, have and continue to smoke pot with no ill effects save short term memory. Link: http://www.usatoday.com/yourlife/health/medical/pediatrics/2..…

This is not about marijuana. It's about the government ignoring high-signatory-count petitions. Stop with the red herring, please.

Disagree. 70,000 people signing a petition wanting marijuana legalized does not obligate the government to legalize it. The response they gave contained their view on marijuana legalization and scientific research supporting some of their claims.

All in all, the release of this code was probably for two reasons. 1) The developers liked what they built for the government, and felt that people should be able to use/learn from it. 2) Releasing the code with the readme it has shines a good light on Obama and helps his reelection efforts.

Re: The White House just open sourced their first Github repo

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Post by rndmize »

daenz wrote: post #12

And, in the spirit of the project, they'll reject all pull requests with a patronizing response about the way things are.[1][2] 1. https://petitions.whitehouse.gov/petition/legalize-and-regul... 2. https://petitions.whitehouse.gov/petition/abolish-tsa-and-us...

So you expect serious government action from an online petition system?

Re: The White House just open sourced their first Github repo

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Post by taligent »

daenz wrote: post #54
purephase wrote: post #53

Earlier quoted context omitted.

That's just stupid. As if the developers involved, who are likely proud of their work and the go-ahead to release it to the community, have anything to do with the petition outcomes. People need to think things through sometimes.

It raises awareness of the issue. Why should any self-respecting developer want to contribute to a code base that does nothing but facilitate the government ignoring peoples' grievances, while at the same time making them feel like they are participating?

Wow. Just wow.

How about the fact he is contributing and trying to make the government better and more open instead of whinging like an immature, sanctimonious dick.

I have 100x more respect for people that at least try.

Re: The White House just open sourced their first Github repo

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Post by taligent »

sneak wrote: post #35
tokenizer wrote: post #31

Earlier quoted context omitted.

However, the point about the brain is accurate. While this is purely my own experience, two people I've known, have developed schizophrenia in their early twenties (when the onset usually occurs) and both had smoked pot heavily in their teens. I and many more friends however, have and continue to smoke pot with no ill effects save short term memory. Link: http://www.usatoday.com/yourlife/health/medical/pediatrics/2..…

This is not about marijuana. It's about the government ignoring high-signatory-count petitions. Stop with the red herring, please.

They didn't ignore it. They answered your question.

You just didn't like the answer. At least be intellectually honest.

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