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Meeting minutes - 10/17/19

  • Welcome
    • Replaces biweekly OMB meeting with liaisons
    • Hoping for engagement and participation
    • Have a calendar invite and will send out correspondence via Code.gov listserv
    • Forum to learn from each other, not about compliance but about realizing the benefits of engaging with the public and releasing software

  • OMB update on FSCP
    • Policy still exists - agencies have to create policy, update acquisition language to capture new custom code, and inventory code and post inventory on root directory
    • 20% pilot expired in August but OMB will extend pilot indefinitely in new Automated Tech Policy due out soon - new message into OMB for status of Automated Tech Policy release

  • Updates to Code.gov
    • Updates to platform - Sean Starnes, Code.gov’s Back-End Engineer
    • Metadata schema
      • Establishing a sub-working group
      • Send email to Joe or Amin if you would like to participate


  • Current engagements
    • FSCS - Federal Source Code Study
      • Wrapping up data analysis and validating, drafting initial findings.
      • Planned release is January.
    • Software Productivity and Quality Working Group
      • Includes BLS, NASA, NIST, DOD, GSA
      • Monthly calls with demos, super geeky conversations on code value and quality.
    • Harvard code valuation project
      • Planned for Spring.
      • Exploratory research to value software - value to agency, public, cost, reuse, etc.
      • Ask for help from this community for interviews and artifacts, SMEs on code creation and reuse.
    • Federal Source Code Toolkit
      • Planned for Spring w/ release at the Spring Federal Source Code Summit
      • Establish workgroup

  • Events
    • Code.gov Webinar: Happy 3rd Birthday to Us! November 7th @ 2pm
    • Spring Federal Source Code Summit - For Feds by Feds, hosted at GSA w/ virtual component, 1/2 day in the morning, April 16th, 2020. Topics based on FSCS study and input from this community - looking for ideas and speakers. Survey coming soon!
    • FYI: DC Cyber Week 2019 (10/21)

  • Kudos
    • Forest Service - Included code bases into USDA master file and published on Code.gov.
    • Amin Mehr, Dept. Director of Code.gov spoke at All Things Open.
    • SSA - Joe Amalfitano - open source

  • Learning
    • Looking for demos, experts, and topics.
    • Would you like to hear about specific topics or present on a topic related to federal source code (e.g., how to open source, an impactful project, DevOps).