[shanear]

I was a member of the USDS for 4 years. Every member of the USDS is a government employee with a fully transparent government salary, most of whom are taking a massive pay cut to serve their country and its citizens.

[dkhenry]

Not only that, but the entire process is fairly transparent. For instance the code for this website is available here

https://github.com/usds/playbook

Along with full commit history.