A team of open source evangelists is working within the General Services Administration as part of a federal initiative for more transparent government use of technology.18F, a development unit within the GSA, was established a year ago to tap into the success of the United Kingdom’s Government Digital Services unit by pursuing a similar strategy.The unit is tasked with getting developers from Silicon Valley and the ranks of civic developers all over the country to change how federal technology gets done. The hub of this push for open source consolidation for government agencies is 18F’s GitHub account.This open source team, however, is only focused on establishing an open source model for software projects developed within federal agencies. It has a hands-off attitude toward integrating free and open source software as a replacement for proprietary licensed commercial software.”There is no focus yet on integrating front-end open source products to replace proprietary software in government agencies…we are really more about custom software development in the open,” Greg Godbout, executive director of the General Services Administration’s 18F, told LinuxInsider.18F opened its doors last March. The relatively small unit began operations as a transition team of eight members. The group banded together after an… Read full this story
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