18F Blog

One of my favorite projects is the U.S. Department of the Interior's work on social media. I recently asked Rebecca Matulka, the senior digital media strategist for Interior what she’s learned while running an online community that helps Interior achieve its larger strategic goals.

The auctions have closed, the bids are in, the winners are off coding, and some already have been paid. Let’s look at some early lessons from our latest round of micro-purchase auctions.

18F is releasing our CSS coding style guide, which specifies our best practices and rules for writing consistent, maintainable CSS code.

We've been thinking a lot lately about our role within the open source community, and it's our 2016 resolution to increase the number of non-employee contributors to our projects, including: contributors with little previous experience with open source, and contributors to documentation, bug filing, and other non-coding work.

In October 2015, 18F launched an experiment in micro-purchasing. Given both vendor and government interest in continuing this task, 18F is happy to announce the launch of a new platform for posting and bidding on micro-purchase tasks.