Analysis of Federal Executive .Govs
The White House’s Office of Management and Budget recently released a list of all domains owned and operated by federal executive agencies. Leveraging a previous tool I had built called Site Inspector...
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WordPress for Government – A Problem of Perception
Over the past several years WordPress’s market share has enjoyed explosive growth across virtually every industry. Today, it powers nearly a quarter of new sites, and is the CMS of choice for more than...
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What’s Missing from CFPB’s Awesome New Source Code Policy
Most often, when we talk about open source in government, it’s talked about in one of two ways: either it’s the pitfalls of the federal IT procurement model that can’t seem to comprehend a world in...
View ArticleCFPB Accepts First Citizen-Submitted Code on Behalf of Federal Government
“Fix typo.” Not quite “one small step for man,” but a significant first nonetheless. These simple words, typed by an open-source developer operating under the pseudonym “iceeey,” may represent the...
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Publishing Government Data That Developers Will Actually Use
Despite increasing public support (as well as a number of executive mandates) publishing public data in a machine-readable format is not as simple as pressing the “publish” button. Why? Equally...
View ArticleGovernment’s Release of Federally Funded Source Code: Public Domain or Open...
A petition was recently posted on We The People demanding that federally funded software be released under an open source license. Makes sense. The public should have access to what is technically...
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