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April 12, 2014

How a pepperoni pizza inspires open government

By Memi Whitehead , Dr. Robert L. Read

Easy access to detailed tracking of processes has become more and more popular. Whether using Amazon.com, UPS, Uber or United Airlines, people expect instant feedback. They want to immediately see the status of a process upon which they depend.

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April 11, 2014

Open source and terms of service = a better developer experience

By Gray Brooks

One of the important changes occurring across the federal government is the role of open source for non-code projects - using an open, iterative model of collaboration inherited from the coding community for all kinds of new purposes. Want to see a great example of this in action? In recent years, as more and more agencies offer public APIs, some have included a developer terms of service (TOS).

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April 1, 2014

Ask us (almost) anything

By 18F

GitHub for Government did their very first AMA (Ask Me Anything) last week with Philadelphia's Chief Data Officer, Mark Headd. After some prodding by GitHub's Head Bureaucat, Ben Balter, 18F decided to use this new avenue to do some Q and A.

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March 31, 2014

Announcing FBOpen: Government opportunities made easier

By Alison Rowland

Today we're announcing our first product launch: FBOpen, a set of open-source tools to help small businesses search for opportunities to work with the U.S. government.

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March 27, 2014

Uncle Sam wants YOU to be a hero hacker

By Dr. Robert L. Read , Michelle Hertzfeld

The Presidential Innovation Fellows program is now accepting applications from creative, energetic policy hackers, entrepreneurs, user experience experts, designers, front-end developers, back-end developers, system architecture wizards, data wranglers, and more to serve their tours of duty to radically improve the delivery of government digital services.

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