{"id":185934,"date":"2016-11-05T06:52:53","date_gmt":"2016-11-05T04:52:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=185934"},"modified":"2016-11-05T06:54:10","modified_gmt":"2016-11-05T04:54:10","slug":"us-government-launches-open-source-software-hub","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/software\/185934-us-government-launches-open-source-software-hub.html","title":{"rendered":"US government launches open-source software hub"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.whitehouse.gov\/blog\/2016\/11\/03\/peoples-code-now-codegov\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>The United States government has launched Code.gov<\/strong><\/a>, so that the nation \u201ccan continue to unlock the tremendous potential of the Federal Government\u2019s software\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019re building many of these new digital tools, such as We the People, the White House Facebook bot, and Data.gov,\u201d said Tony Scott, the US Chief Information Officer.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe code for these platforms is the People\u2019s Code \u2013 and today we\u2019re excited to announce that it\u2019ll be accessible from one place, Code.gov.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The launch of Code.gov comes on the heels of the release of the Federal Source Code Policy, which seeks to improve access to the government\u2019s custom software.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s a step we took to help Federal agencies avoid duplicative custom software purchases and promote innovation and cross-agency collaboration.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Code.gov provides access to nearly 50 open-source projects from over 10 agencies, and Scott said this number will grow in the coming months.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">Now read: <a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/broadband\/185016-the-fastest-home-internet-connection-in-the-united-states.html\">The fastest home Internet connection in the United States<\/a><\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The United States government has launched Code.gov, so that the nation \u201ccan continue to unlock the tremendous potential of the Federal Government\u2019s software\u201d.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":159704,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_facebook_post_id":"","_sma_instagram_post_id":"","_sma_threads_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[36,39662,39664],"class_list":["post-185934","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-software","tag-active","tag-code-gov","tag-federal-source-code-policy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/185934"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=185934"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/185934\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":185938,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/185934\/revisions\/185938"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/159704"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=185934"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=185934"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=185934"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}