5 ms·

The US is getting better about it, some more than others, but a few off the top of my head.. https://github.com/department-of-veterans-affairs https://github.c

The US is getting better about it, some more than others, but a few off the top of my head.. https://github.com/department-of-veterans-affairs https://github.com/department-of-veterans-affairs https://github.com/nationalsecurityagency https://github.com/nationalsecurityagency https://github.com/GSA https://github.com/GSA https://github.com/CMSgov https://github.com/CMSgov https://github.com/CDCgov https://github.com/CDCgov

toomanybeersies 4y ago
You missed the 18F Github org [1], also from the GSA. I wonder if there's a directory of government Github orgs somewhere? [1] https://github.com/18F https://github.com/18F
- prepend 4y ago
  Yes, there’s https://government.github.com/community/ https://government.github.com/community/ And GSA keeps a list, sort of, of all the US gov projects at code.gsa.gov. But the code activity got defunded a year or two ago and no longer updates a consolidated catalog and now just points to all the various departments.
cmutel 4y ago
https://github.com/USEPA/ https://github.com/USEPA/
prepend 4y ago
Funny story about CDCgov. Probably the most common question we get is “you should use CDC instead of CDCgov.” Someone else has @CDC as they got there first. They aren’t active so CDC tried to get in touch with them and GitHub doesn’t provide a way to contact people. That’s kind of nice actually, they respect privacy. GitHub did offer to contact the user without sharing the users contact info. They asked if @CDC was active and if not, would they mind letting CDC.gov use it. The user responded that they are active, just not with public activity. And that they would like to keep it. I thought the whole process was pretty nice. Github respected the user, and still tried to help. User considered and didn’t change their existing account. Some people got upset and tried to formulate plans to “make” the user give it up, but those weren’t pursued because it would be wrong and a waste of efforts and, I think, harmful to the purpose for collaborative software. So that’s how CDCgov exists. And I suspect there’s a similar story behind CMSgov and all the other sites where staff were too slow to set stuff up.

toomanybeersies 4y ago

You missed the 18F Github org [1], also from the GSA. I wonder if there's a directory of government Github orgs somewhere? [1] https://github.com/18F https://github.com/18F

prepend 4y ago
Yes, there’s https://government.github.com/community/ https://government.github.com/community/ And GSA keeps a list, sort of, of all the US gov projects at code.gsa.gov. But the code activity got defunded a year or two ago and no longer updates a consolidated catalog and now just points to all the various departments.

cmutel 4y ago

https://github.com/USEPA/ https://github.com/USEPA/

prepend 4y ago

Funny story about CDCgov. Probably the most common question we get is “you should use CDC instead of CDCgov.” Someone else has @CDC as they got there first. They aren’t active so CDC tried to get in touch with them and GitHub doesn’t provide a way to contact people. That’s kind of nice actually, they respect privacy. GitHub did offer to contact the user without sharing the users contact info. They asked if @CDC was active and if not, would they mind letting CDC.gov use it. The user responded that they are active, just not with public activity. And that they would like to keep it. I thought the whole process was pretty nice. Github respected the user, and still tried to help. User considered and didn’t change their existing account. Some people got upset and tried to formulate plans to “make” the user give it up, but those weren’t pursued because it would be wrong and a waste of efforts and, I think, harmful to the purpose for collaborative software. So that’s how CDCgov exists. And I suspect there’s a similar story behind CMSgov and all the other sites where staff were too slow to set stuff up.