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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.

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

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

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

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