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. Th

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.