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July 31, 2014
Working in public from day one
Open source your code from day one. Don't wait for a milestone, don't wait for it to be stable — do it from the first commit. -
July 29, 2014
18F: an open source team
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. -
July 23, 2014
Take a gander at our /Developer page
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. -
July 16, 2014
Midas: a marketplace for innovation in government
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.”Continue reading about Midas: a marketplace for innovation in government
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July 15, 2014
Hot off the press: 18F's API standards
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.Continue reading about Hot off the press: 18F's API standards
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