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This is really cool. 18F has been doing a lot of amazing work, it seems like the possibility of government tech not totally sucking may be on the (somewhat dist

• wslack 10y ago
  :) Thanks! I also work at 18F, but not directly on cloud.gov. Govtech is a huge market, and I wouldn't expect any individual effort to turn the entire ship. Hopefully, though, we can provide a space to experiment and build with modern solutions and practices to make them more "normal." I'm especially a fan of developing in the open - you can see our commits and issue discussions and keep track of how we're doing as your civil servants. The other thing I love is that all of our work is in the public domain or CC0.