Perhaps with an automatic search based on the url.

Should just live at /404.html.

I'm not sure how this would be implemented, but there are github accounts that are used by several agencies. For example, https://github.com/hpc is used by lanl.gov, llnl.gov, sandia.gov, ornl.gov, and others.

Maybe Disqus or something similar?

How were github-octicons generated? I ask because the .eot file doesn't work on IE8, but if I regenerate the font files from the .ttf one using fontsquirrel it works fine.

Placed similar to the "more resources" box on supporting pages.

Tried to do it, but couldn't quite get it right.

Halp?

Hi! In zen mode, even in fullscreen, there's still a sad scrollbar an no way (I can find) to reduce font. Very hard to visually ID linebreaks.

I can haz expanding margins?

https://github.com/mojombo/jekyll/blob/master/site/docs/datafiles.md

This seems like a more flexible solution for government.github.com compared to having to edit _config.yml which is becoming huge anyway.

Maybe having a yml file for each country would make the situation much cleaner.

http://government.github.com/community/ should be more a list styel with the name of the organization additionaly - not only the logo

it gives a better overview

PS: for accessibilty is list also better

Hello everybody, 😄

I need your help!

I tried today to *run over Git Shell* script/bootstrap and script/server on my Laptop but it doesn't work. 😒

So it looks when script/bootstrap is finished:

So it looks when script/server is finished:

Thanks for your help.

Yours,
Suriyaa Kudo

(PS: I install "nokogiri" and "bundle" and it's still not work.)

Small typo in the instructions heading of the community page. One of the bullets looks like:

• In your forked version, click the branch dropdown and in the “Fnid or create a branch…” field, create a new branch (for example, “adding myagencyname”).

Notice Fnid, which should be Find.

The homepage (http://government.github.com/) is missing contents in <title>, which leads to an ugly display of the URL in the tab in Firefox.

IE 8 works sort of ok, apart for the logo image. IE7 looks awfully broken.

I suggest we follow the latest html5 boilerplate and make IE 8 the minimum supported IE.

I can make a PR later for this.

Currently the feature org images are being set with an inline attribute to 80px wide, but the payload for the page is pretty larg since these images are >300KB each 😦

Why is .featured-orgs has negative margin of 55px? Images are overflowing the screen because of it:

Also why are these featured org avatars are stored in repo? Why isn't it using something like (check src property):

<img class="animate-in" src="https://github.com/{{ org }}.png" width="80" alt="View {{ org }}'s profile on GitHub">

Can I make above two changes?

C:\Users\xmr\Desktop\government.github.com>ruby -v && gem -v
ruby 2.2.4p230 (2015-12-16 revision 53155) [x64-mingw32]
2.5.2

C:\Users\xmr\Desktop\government.github.com>bundle exec jekyll s
Configuration file: C:/Users/xmr/Desktop/government.github.com/_config.yml
            Source: C:/Users/xmr/Desktop/government.github.com
       Destination: C:/Users/xmr/Desktop/government.github.com/_site
 Incremental build: disabled. Enable with --incremental
      Generating...
  Conversion error: Jekyll::Converters::Scss encountered an error while converting 'assets/css/style.scss':
                    File to import not found or unreadable: bootstrap/stylesheet
s/bootstrap. Load path: C:/Users/xmr/Desktop/government.github.com/_sass on line 2
jekyll 3.0.3 | Error:  File to import not found or unreadable: bootstrap/stylesheets/bootstrap.
Load path: C:/Users/xmr/Desktop/government.github.com/_sass on line 2

Or if anyone has any other solution, please let me know.

/CC @benbalter

@benbalter: this was removed in Octicons v3.0. I was looking for alternatives but I'm not sure which one to use.

Not to promote silos but ...
There is currently a slight disconnect with US splitting between Federal, State, county, and City vs. the rest of the world.

1. Each country splitting between levels (with separate h2's and grids?)
   • Country/Federal
     • Country A
   • State/Province
     • Washington
     • Ontario
   • City/County
     • ...
2. Country as the high level
   • US
     • Federal
       • ...
     • State

This would mitigate the concerns raised by @jlord here #36 (comment) about stories getting pushed off the front page too quickly.

I'm guessing during one of the merges of the updates to the css/bootstrap/whatnots that something got changed that created this bug in the display of orgs on /community:

There shouldn't be almost blank rows. It's happening if a type-block ends up in the last position of a row.

Will try and fix it in the morning (it's late here!).

Since this is highlighting international work, it may be a good idea to look into crowdsourcing some translations

For tall images, would be awesome to dynamically resize like we do on the home page (I think as a centered background with a max-height?)

@benbalter Looks like the builds stopped running a month ago https://travis-ci.org/github/government.github.com and the landing page for this repo says "This is not an active repository"
Maybe a token got revoked or it needs a permission check?

In the README, there is a section for Add a Story that references instructions in docs/submit.md that doesn't seem to exist.

Are the instructions just hosted someplace else now? Is adding a story still an option?

Thanks!

https://travis-ci.org/github/government.github.com/builds/13034676

@gjtorikian any insight what we're doing wrong? data-proofer-ignore doesn't seem to be ignored.

As the number of government organizations on GitHub has grown, so too has the load time of the /community page.

I'm less concerned about the load time as I am about the experience of actually using it. For example, even if you know what you're looking for, it's hard to read, as your scroll, as the images load and the dom reflows. This is especially true if you enter via an anchor link (which then isn't where you want it).

I tried setting the height explicitly on images, but it didn't seem to help. Perhaps we could do one of those fancy javascript fade in loads? @jlord know this was your 👶 originally, any thoughts / strong opinions?

See also #304

...even if it is not a state at this moment.

The landing page of this project includes an img src="/github/government.github.com/raw/gh-pages/images/screenshot.png". That file, apparently, doesn't exist.

Adding the s= query parameter would shrink down the size of the images downloaded, but that doesn't work unless you resolve the github user content url first. Ex: https://avatars3.githubusercontent.com/u/1297909
?v=2&s=30
?v=2&s=100

Since passing the format https://github.com/nschonni.png?s=30 doesn't pass through the query params, maybe you can look up on your side to see if there is a trick to get it to request the right size.

Should also reference contributors.

http://ben.balter.com/2015/06/03/copyright-notices-for-websites-and-open-source-projects/

Should include the recommended/required YAML section for the posts

1. the /about page talks about "export restorations";
2. the link to github.com at the bottom of the pages links to status.github.com instead.

- Felix

No other country breaks their list of "Federal" accounts this way and don't see what added value there is as source code and projects can find re-use across military and civilian sectors. This only adds un-needed complexity to keep the list up to date for the US having to compare three lists in what should be two list within two files:

• https://github.com/github/government.github.com/blob/gh-pages/_data/governments.yml
• https://github.com/github/government.github.com/blob/gh-pages/_data/research.yml

Related:
#461

Initially mentioned here #127 (comment).

There are so many http requests ~320. And most of them are because of redirects from github to gravatar.

Now since most organizations in #orgs are hidden with overflow: hidden;, they shouldn't be in index.html in the first place IMHO.

Another approach would be to use a css sprite but that won't be so flexible.

Rather than bumping a few of the recent threads, I wanted to float using CDN copies directly in the templates rather than including the libraries through Bower. I love Bower, but most of these libraries have CDN equivalents that are excellent when no customization are needed (and have a better change of hitting users browser cache).

/cc the awesome work by @benbalter and @XhmikosR

Add section on Open Data Websites and related repos.

Subsection/Partner section would contain list of repos on GitHub that leverage the specific Open data sources.

Potential stories would include apps, mobile apps, data scrapers, open data platforms like CKAN (http://ckan.org) and DKAN (https://drupal.org/project/dkan), visualization tools, news stories that occurred about the work being done, etc.

Under the US Fed section, there are currently two organizations that seem to represent the VA @USDeptVeteransAffairs and @department-of-veterans-affairs. The latter appears to be the only one with recent activity/members.

Just curious on the team as well as communities feelings about a mention of GitHub Training being available for government bodies if they're interested.

Some text and message similar to:

Interested in Training? We have a team at GitHub specifically for that. Contact [email protected] to start the discussion today!

Full with professor_octocat_v2 or something.

Thoughts?

Hi I followed the instruction in READMD.md and finished running ./server. It instructed me to open localhost:4000/ but when I did that, it just gave me error that no access permission to '/'. Could you please explain this is happening? Thank you.

Just a matter of adding ID's to each block, I believe.

Doing a little clean up of the government organizations list at government.github.com/community and I noticed the follow government "organizations" are really GitHub users.

Being a GitHub organization (rather than a user) provides government organizations with lots of advantages like team-based access permissions, unlimited owners, admins, and collaborators, the ability to audit 2FA status, and access to business-oriented plans.

Think about it like the difference between your personal account on Facebook, and having a Facebook page. For more information see What's the difference between user and organization accounts?.

If your name is listed below, and you're a government organization, I'd strongly encourage you to Converting your user into an organization. It takes seconds, and won't break existing URLs or disrupt developers' workflows.

Ideally, we'd only like government organizations to be listed on government.github.com/community. If you have any questions, or don't want your name listed for some reason, please feel free to reply here, or contact me directly at [email protected]. 😄

@2EK
@CarersBeta
@edelegationen
@EducationDataInitiative
@foreignassistance
@GemeenteBoekel
@GemeenteDeWoldenHoogeveen
@GemeenteEdamVolendam
@gemeentehoogezandsappemeer
@GemeenteKoggenland
@GemeenteLingewaard
@GemeenteLochem
@GemeenteMontferland
@GemeenteNunspeet
@GemeenteRheden
@GemeenteTynaarlo
@GemeenteUrk
@GemeenteUtrecht
@GemeenteVeere
@GemeenteWaalwijk
@GemeenteWeststellingwerf
@IenS-Velsen
@MinIenM
@NCBITools
@ouropendata
@sfgov
@state-hiu

Via @adamjacobbecker, we should link out to the government app showcase from government.github.com in a big way.

Mirroring the features "learn more" link, thinking it'd make the most sense to add it below the "how to use GitHub" section. Don't ❤️ the copy, but something like:

@jlord, any suggestions?

I followed the directions on http://government.github.com/submit/ for submitting a story:

Simply open the Prose editor and start typing. It’s really that easy. When you’re done, hit submit, and track your story’s progress as it’s added.

It's not clear the submission worked. Can you confirm?

Thanks,

Juli Klemm

There are a few GitHub organizations that are government-initiated, but they aren't tied to a single government entity per se...not sure where they should go. Ideas?

• @DistributedOpenUnifiedGovernmentNetwork
• @fisma-ready
• @openopps
• @eregs
• @uspki
• @opencontrol

While not a specific department, could easily be listed here:
http://government.github.com/community/

https://github.com/wet-boew-wem

Ref: http://www.obj.ca/Opinion/2012-11-15/article-3121167/Drupal-gains-popularity-within-government-ranks/1

cc: @sylus

Small clarification request to the instruction on the community page. As @nschonni pointed out in a pull request comment, I accidentally created my branch off of the accessibility branch. I recommend the instructions include a bit that the gh-pages branch should be selected first.

Sorry, but where can I find a license for scripts and fonts? :)

Hi,

The website looses its responsive nature around 672×640. Few portions of text go out of the screen.