In a post titled, “The People’s Code,” U.S. Chief Information Officer Tony Scott announced the release of the new Federal Source Code policy. The period for public comment ended in April after which the White House Office of Management and Budget (OMB) analyzed the feedback on GitHub. The new policy primarily concerns custom-developed source code…
Last month the White House called for developers to comment on its proposed draft for a Government-wide Open Source Software policy. The new policy would require code paid for by the government to be made available for reuse across other federal agencies and a portion (20%) of the custom code would be released as open…
The White House is calling for developers to comment on its proposed draft for a Government-wide Open Source Software policy. In the request for public comment, the White House Office of Management and Budget (OMB) outlined two major goals for the new policy: This policy requires that, among other things: (1) new custom code whose…
We (the Digital Engagement team) were tasked with producing a new site at very little cost and within a six week window. To restructure the content to make it easier to find we used Google analytics to analyze typical user journeys. Harnessing user insight will be an iterative process through the ongoing development of this…