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July 29, 2014

18F: an open source team

By Raphael Majma , Eric Mill

At 18F, we place a premium on developing digital tools and services in the open. This means contributing our source code back to the community, actively repurposing our code across projects, and contributing back to the open source tools we use. For a variety of reasons, we believe that doing so improves the final product we create.

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July 23, 2014

Take a gander at our /Developer page

By Gray Brooks

A growing trend both inside government and outside is to have a simple welcoming page for outside developers who may be interested in your team’s efforts. This material is often located at website.gov/developer and points visitors to technical material that developers may be interested in, especially APIs. Collecting technical documentation in one place facilitates the developer experience, ensuring that they can find and begin using APIs with as little friction as possible.

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July 16, 2014

Midas: a marketplace for innovation in government

By Joe Polastre , Matt Chessen, Department of State

Midas is an online platform that brings to life the vision of an Innovation Toolkit for government. It's a marketplace of skill building opportunities which matches people to projects that they're passionate about. You can think of it as “Kickstarter for people's time.”

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July 15, 2014

Hot off the press: 18F's API standards

By Alan deLevie , Eric Mill

We recently released the first version of our API Standards — a set of recommendations and guidelines for API production. It is our intention that every 18F API meet these standards, to help us ensure a baseline quality and consistency across all APIs we offer now and in the future.

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June 25, 2014

Intro to APIs: Working with URLs, JSON, APIs, and Open Data — without writing any code

By Gray Brooks , Eric Mill

June 27, 2014, from 9:30 a.m. to 11:30 a.m. Register now. GSA’s digital teams are offering a user-friendly intro course to APIs. Regardless of your skill level, you will walk away from this lesson understanding what APIs are and how developers use them.

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