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US Government Launches Code.gov To Showcase Its Open Source Software (venturebeat.com)

Posted by msmash on from the affinity-for-open-source dept.

An anonymous reader shares a VentureBeat report: The White House has announced the launch of Code.gov, a website that shows off U.S. government open-source projects and offers relevant resources for government agencies. By launching this site the White House is hoping to improve public access to the government's software and encourage the reuse of software across government agencies. The launch comes four months after the White House introduced the Federal Source Code policy, which specifically mandates that government agencies "make custom-developed code available for Government-wide reuse and make their code inventories discoverable" at Code.gov, with certain exceptions. The new site already has almost 50 code repositories from more than 10 agencies, U.S. chief information officer Tony Scott wrote in a blog post.

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  1. Re:Dancin!.... Dancin in IT! by bigbang137 · · Score: 3, Informative

    > What's wrong with GitHub
    The actual code is quite often on GitHub. Code.gov is just a listing of what's on offer.

  2. Github is used by bigbang137 · · Score: 2, Informative

    FWIW, several of the showcased projects are actually hosted on Github.

  3. Bro Network Security Monitor by bigbang137 · · Score: 4, Informative

    This one caught my eye - https://github.com/bro/bro - presented to you by the DoE
    > Bro is a powerful network analysis framework that is much different from the typical IDS you may know.

  4. YouTube by bigbang137 · · Score: 4, Informative

    Bro has numerous tech videos too on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/user/B...