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GitHub for Government Office Hours

Got questions about using GitHub within government? Join us Thursday August 29th at 1:00 EST to talk all things GitHub for open source, open data, and open government.

Free and open to the public, if you're a federal, state, local, or municipal employee, or just a civic hacker interested in governmenty things, we're here to answer your questions.

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What's a GitHub?

GitHub is a social network for software developers. Similar to how networks like Facebook and Twitter allow people to connect, organize, and comment on updates, GitHub allows you to share source code and other technical materials you're working on and benefit from the input and contributions of others.

GitHub is a social layer built on top of a long-standing open source project called Git. At its most basic level, Git simply tracks who made what change when. While it was originally used for collaborative software development, and still is, the workflow is equally applicable to countless applications including modern open data and open government efforts.

GitHub hosts projects, commonly referred to as repositories, which belong to and are managed by organizations, typically tracking to government agencies. While you can always control who has access to your content, if your project is publicly accessible, as is most common within government, at any time, anyone can submit a proposed impro

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Transparency is so '08: Why treating data as code & collaboration are the next frontier for open gov

Question: Open government is a great first step, but how can we push towards collaborative government, the world's largest and longest-running open source project

Background

What differentiates open source from transparency is collaboration: the essential promise that you can see the underlying source code and make things better.
PDF of excel spreadsheets are technically transparency, but that's really not good enough.
A central promise of open source is not just to see the process, but participate and be able to modify source
Nothing -> FOIA -> Open Gov -> (Collaborative Gov?)

	#!/usr/bin/env ruby

	require 'open-uri'
	require 'json'

	output = ""
	contributors = JSON.parse(open("https://api.github.com/repos/project-open-data/project-open-data.github.io/contributors").read)

	contributors.each do \|contributor\|
	output += "- [ ] @#{contributor['login']} ([#{contributor['contributions']} contributions](https://github.com/project-open-data/project-open-data.github.io/commits?author=#{contributor['login']}))\n"

	require 'csv'
	require 'gman'

	data = CSV.read("data.csv", {:headers => true, :return_headers => false, :header_converters => :symbol, :converters => :all} )

	# attended
	attended = data.select {\|row\| row[:attended] == "Yes" }
	percent = 100 * attended.count / data.count
	puts "Attended: #{attended.count} (#{percent}% of those registered)"

	require 'csv'

	module JekyllCsv
	class Generator < Jekyll::Generator
	def generate(site)
	dir = File.expand_path "_csvs", site.source
	return if site.safe && File.symlink?(dir)

	entries = Dir.chdir(dir) do
	Dir['*.csv']

	domain,uri,government,live,ssl,enforce_https,non_www,redirect,ip,hostname,ipv6,dnssec,cdn,google_apps,could_provider,server,cms,analytics,javascript,advertising,slash_data,slash_developer,data_dot_json,click_jacking_protection,content_security_policy,xss_protection,secure_cookies,strict_transport_security,agency,last_checked
	acus.gov,http://acus.gov,true,true,false,false,true,,184.94.216.66,ip-184-94-216-66.name-host.com,false,false,false,false,false,Apache/2.2.27 (Unix) PHP/5.3.28,drupal,google_analytics,jquery,"",false,false,false,false,false,false,,false,Administrative Conference of the United States,2014-07-06 10:44:17 -0400
	achp.gov,http://achp.gov,true,true,false,false,true,,69.164.158.8,parked.peakcolo.com,false,false,false,false,false,Apache/2.2.10 (Linux/SUSE),"","","","",false,false,false,false,false,false,,false,Advisory Council on Historic Preservation,2014-07-06 10:44:18 -0400
	preserveamerica.gov,http://preserveamerica.gov,true,true,false,false,true,,69.164.158.9,parked.peakcolo.com,false,false,f

	# Description:
	# Displays our current DUNS number or SAM.gov registration
	#
	# Configuration:
	# You'll need to set HUBOT_GOV_API_TOKEN as an environmental variable.
	# To get an token, head over to https://api.data.gov/signup/.
	# You just need a name/email combo as it's solely used for rate limiting.
	#
	# Commands:
	# hubot samdotgov me - display's your current Sam.gov registration

	gem "net/dns"
	gem "colored"