I saw White House Follows No 10 To Github-first open source development, with text that reads in part:
Yesterday the White House got some justifiable praise for open sourcing its online petitioning platform, We The People, using a Github repository. In a blog post Macon Philips, Director of Digital Strategy, said:
“Now anybody, from other countries to the smallest organizations to civic hackers can take this code and put to their own use.
One of the most exciting prospects of open sourcing We the People is getting feedback, ideas and code contributions from the public. There is so much that can be done to improve this system, and we only benefit by being able to more easily collaborate with designers and engineers around the country – and the world.”
If you don’t know the details of the U.S. government and open source, see: Open Source in the U.S. Government.
History is “out there,” and not all that hard to find.
Can topic maps help government officials avoid public confessions of ignorance?