[eddietejeda]

If you are interested in this topic, checkout https://code.gov/

“The Federal Source Code Policy (FSCP) called for the establishment of the the Code.gov program office and corresponding technical platform of a website and application programming interface (API). The program office assists agencies with policy, acquisition, and code inventory creation. We are a small but mighty team with five members with expertise and beliefs pertaining to discovering, sharing, and open sourcing the People's code.”

You may also want to read up on 18f.gsa.gov. They publish and share lots of open source code.

I started at 18F and now run https://github.com/cloud-gov

[petepete]

Also have a look at the GOV.UK/GDS[0], which strongly influenced the US Digital Service. Pretty much everything digital that government departments do is open by default[1]

[0] https://www.gov.uk/government/organisations/government-digit... [1] https://github.com/alphagov