List all repositories that are open source about code-gov-web HOT 5 CLOSED

Hi @joshsmith - the basic plan at launch was to highlight a number of projects that agencies volunteered for inclusion. That is dramatically different from the approach starting 120 days after the issuance of the policy (today marks 90 days). At 120 days, every(1) agency is required to publicly post an "enterprise code inventory" which catalogs their custom code, including open source projects and projects that are not open source, in the form of a .json file on their agency website. Code.gov will harvest those to create a comprehensive listing.

The sky's the limit in terms of what else we do with the platform in terms of how we present and highlight open source repositories. Generally, we've been thinking in terms of two use cases:

1. helping agencies find code that already exists and which meets their needs, rather than building from scratch or paying for it unnecesarily
2. helping the open source community discover and contribute to government open source projects - and conversely, helping agencies learn how to contribute back to the community

(1) not all "agencies" are subject to the Federal Source Code policy. For example, while CFPB is represented on the site, it is an independent agency and doesn't have to participate.

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@joshsmith We plan on adding more and more repos as Agencies make us aware of their open source repos.

On the UX side – as we get more repos, we plan on enabling other methods to explore them. We're hoping to expand the data we're capturing about repos to make it easier for developers to find repos that match their interests - i.e. language, framework, etc. Any suggestions you have are welcome!

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@lukad03 I'm fairly certain CFPB has more repos than displayed here.

I'd be happy to provide more suggestions here. Also have a massive ~4,000 entry long list of languages, frameworks, etc. that we use in @code-corps to provide some matching utility.

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Hi @lukad03 - how are you going to want those projects / repos provided? Pull request to the repos.json file? Would it make sense to have some method to build that file from a collections of repo lists?

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Can you share some insight into why this has been closed?

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