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Working in public
Nadia Eghbal’s “Working in Public: The Making and Maintenance of Open Source Software” is a deep and intellectual dive into the nuances of open source, yet still an excellent resource for government...
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Backpacks, bean bags and blue jeans: My take on ‘tech titans,’ 18F and USDS
Photo: General Services Administration Office of Communications Apparently, in 2021, there are people who still refuse to recognize the holistic, energetic and sustainable impact 18F and the U.S....
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How NASA and the open source community helped a helicopter achieve lift-off...
Ingenuity’s First Black-and-White Image From the Air (Photo: NASA/JPL-Caltech) GitHub has a great write-up of how open source community contributions played a key role in helping NASA’s Ingenuity...
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The federal government is giving away free .gov domains to all official U.S....
Source: usa.gov The DotGov Program, which administers .gov top-level domain assignments to official U.S. government entities, now offers the service for free. Price for access to an official .gov...
View ArticleIn-Q-Tel wants to talk to people interested in open source software and...
In-Q-Tel, the innovation and venture arm of the U.S. intelligence community, has published several open source themed posts recently, including “Toward Secure Code Reuse” and, most recently, one about...
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Space Force outlines its vision for a digital service
U.S. Air Force photo by Staff Sgt. Kayla White The U.S. Space Force has outlined its vision for a digital service. From the announcement: The Vision for a Digital Service is founded on three key...
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Buy this book: ‘A Civic Technologist’s Practice Guide’
Cyd Harrell’s “A Civic Technologist’s Practice Guide” is the book we’ve always needed, but wouldn’t have been possible until now thanks in no small part to the unparalleled experience she’s accrued...
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Register for the government 2021 User Experience Summit
Photo: UK Government Digital Service The U.S. federal government’s user experience community of practice is hosting a three-day virtual UX summit June 22-24. The 2021 User Experience Summit will...
View ArticleOpen security controls: NIST officially releases OSCAL 1.0.0
The National Institute of Standards and Technology officially released Open Security Controls Assessment Language 1.0.0, a federal government effort to standardize authorization packages and...
View ArticlePublic service bravery: Michael Lewis’ The Premonition shows what it takes to...
In The Premonition, as he tends to do, Michael Lewis turns everyday people willing to tell us what we need to hear at a critical societal moment into a cast of characters we can’t help but cheer on,...
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