digital gov

a scrapbook of ideas, examples, references

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Today, we’re releasing the Federal Source Code policy to support improved access to custom software code developed by or for the Federal Government.

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code.gov

The people's code.

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Usability.gov is the one-stop source for user experience best practices and strategies. Learn how to create more usable, useful, and accessible websites.

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1.4 Open Format The work must be provided in an open format. An open format is one which places no restrictions, monetary or otherwise, upon its use and can be fully processed with at least one free/libre/open-source software tool.

http://opendefinition.org/od/2.1/en/

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1.3 Machine Readability The work must be provided in a form readily processable by a computer and where the individual elements of the work can be easily accessed and modified.

http://opendefinition.org/od/2.1/en/

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After a year of learning and iterating, we were excited to launch Indianapolis’ Police Open Data website. In addition to opening data c...

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When I set out to hire new engineers at Code for America, I hadn’t been here long myself. I remembered how painful a job hunt is and wa...

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Liquid Democracy with Google Votes

Google Tech Talk March 12, 2014 (show more for more details) Presented by Steve Hardt ABSTRACT Google Votes is an experiment in liquid democracy built on Goo...

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The current future of 18F marketplaces

In August, we announced the Full-stack Development Pool vendors for the Agile Delivery Services Marketplace. As we continue to work on the alpha version of this marketplace, we're beginning to plan out additional micro-markets as well.

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Early lessons from the micro-purchase experiment

Well, we sure didn’t expect this. But the winning bid for the first iteration of the 18F micro-purchase experiment was $1. And on Wednesday, the winner delivered a solution that passed our acceptance criteria.

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Announcing the criteria for 18F's first micro-purchase contract

Today, we're beginning our micro-purchase experiment. Here are the details of what we are looking for and our acceptance criteria for the final submission.

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Open Source Micro-purchasing: An experiment in federal acquisition

In the next few weeks, we're going to use our micro-purchase authority to run an experiment to contract for open source contributions to our active projects.

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open-source-policy - This repository contains the official Open Source Policy of 18F

“Open Source Team”

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