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Meeting Minutes - 5/21/2020

Welcome

  • Thank you for joining today!
  • Purpose: This is a forum to learn from each other about the benefits of sharing and open sourcing software.

Programming Notes

  1. Next meeting is June 18th (Always 3rd Thursday of the month.).
    • Meeting information sent via Code.gov listserv.
    • Sign up for CODE listserv - [email protected]. Leave the subject and body blank.
  2. We have the #code-gov-partners Slack channel for real-time collaboration. Anyone with a .gov and .mil email address can join. Send an email addition request to Amin Mehr ([email protected]).
  3. Here is our current agency liaison list.

Updates to the Code.gov platform

  • Added a swing resource in May, Brian Hurst an 18F engineer, who helped streamline our deployment process to Federalist and migrated a couple web components to React components for easier site management. (Note: Code.gov has web components listed on NPMJS.com.)
  • In June, Anna Zhang, a Coding It Forward Fellow, will join us from Yale University where she is studying Computing and the Arts. She has worked on commercial projects with Fujifilm and Conde Nast. She will be assisting with completion of USWDS integration and an aggregated developer docs site.
  • May front-end release:
  • Future items: Updated metadata schema, M-16-21 compliance metrics, engagement metrics based on agency inventory and GH API.

Current news

By Nicole Williams, Code.gov’s Comms Chief.

Current engagements

  • Federal Source Code Study is now live!
    • Three year study of agency implementation of the Federal Source Code Policy (FSCP).
    • Findings show agencies struggle with technology and policy implementation do to organizational factors.
    • Code.gov is planning future blog posts and speaking engagements presenting the study.
  • Software Productivity and Quality Working Group (SPSQ) coordinated by OSTP/NITRD.
    • Includes participants from NSF, NIST, DOD/NRL, DOD/ARL, NIH, GSA.
    • Monthly calls often with presentations on gov-funded software engineering research or economics of software.
    • Contact Peter Meyer ([email protected]) if interested in joining.
  • Federal Source Code Toolkit.
    • Looking for contributions on current documents.
  • Code.gov to conduct quarterly check-ins with agencies.
    • Amin will be reaching out to agency liaisons.
    • Interested in how code is being reused across your agency and across government.

Events

Kudos

  • DOE, CFPB, NASA for working with the Code.gov team on new Spotlight Stories.
  • USCIS for moving Tech Talks virtually and hosting Code.gov soon.

Demo

Sara Cope ([email protected] and https://github.com/saracope) from GSA will be demoing Digital.gov front-end and repo.

  • What it is, how it is open source, and the platform stack.
  • How folks can contribute.