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Uncle Sam Launches Open Source Trove of Government Code

posted by cmn32480 on Saturday November 05 2016, @08:47AM   Printer-friendly
from the complete-with-NSA-backdoors dept.
Code

Phoenix666 writes:

The United States government has made good on its policy of requiring agencies to release 20 per cent of their bespoke code as open source by making code.gov live, complete with lots of code.

Code.gov is a rather bare bones affair, with a listing of available projects its richest page as it offers code from 13 agencies. Among the projects on offer are a NASA Trick simulation environment and the analytics code powering analytics.usa.gov that The Register finds useful when assessing desktop OS market share.

There's also a GitHub repository to consider.

United States CIO Tony Scott said he hopes the launch gives developers within and without government some useful code. The Office of Personnel Management's Google-analytics-data-cruncher certainly looks to have wide applicability, as does The White House's petition-organising repo.

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  • (Score: -1, Spam) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday November 05 2016, @09:05AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Saturday November 05 2016, @09:05AM (#422779)

    Hire a fucksmith, sir? Live your sexual fantasy? [oglaf.com]

    • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday November 05 2016, @09:34AM

      by Anonymous Coward on Saturday November 05 2016, @09:34AM (#422785)

      One clusterfuck, please.

  • (Score: 2) by RamiK on Saturday November 05 2016, @10:25AM

    by RamiK (1813) on Saturday November 05 2016, @10:25AM (#422794)

    ConMan (https://github.com/dun/conman) for instance been out for a while.

    Still, reassuring to know it's being funded and maintained by the DoE if you're debating using it I guess.

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  • (Score: 2) by Bobs on Saturday November 05 2016, @12:31PM

    by Bobs (1462) on Saturday November 05 2016, @12:31PM (#422810)

    This is a good thing.

    People are paying to develop apps - should be available and leveraged by the people. And as open source we get to improve and collaborate on making it better.

    Very cool.

    ——

    But, for those of you who insist on focusing on the dark cloud of every silver lining, I do hope someone is running audits on this as it seems like a prime target to plant malware.

  • (Score: 1, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday November 05 2016, @01:42PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Saturday November 05 2016, @01:42PM (#422826)

    now just mandate that every piece of code paid for by tax money has to be Free Software. It's just common sense.

  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday November 05 2016, @02:23PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Saturday November 05 2016, @02:23PM (#422839)

    But its good to hear its still happening. I remember getting many 'open' documents in the past. Does anyone else remember sending a form to the DoD to get a copy of BRL-CAD printed manuals back in the 90s?

  • (Score: 4, Informative) by butthurt on Saturday November 05 2016, @10:41PM

    by butthurt (6141) on Saturday November 05 2016, @10:41PM (#422935) Journal

    https://github.com/presidential-innovation-fellows/ [github.com]