- Welcome: Discussion of the new format - based on feedback
- Changed to monthly community of practice for all to participate
- 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 public and releasing software
- OMB update on FSCP: 20% and AI ML R&D metadata tags
- Policy still exists - agency 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
- Updates to Code.gov: Refresh of site, New contractors, Metadata schema
- Sara Cope - updates to platform
- Legal update - licensing language (will be added to Code.gov repos)
- Moving from Medium to site blog
- New contractors
- Metadata schema
- Establishing a sub-working group - send email to Joe or Amin if you would like to participate
- Ideas so far:
- Date updated - mandatory field so we know when file was last updated
- DHS - optional field: measurementType - allow users to specify a numeric value for the optional field ‘method’ (example - method=linesOfCode, value=2573)
- Sara Cope - updates to platform
- Current news: DoD article on OSS publishing
- https://defensesystems.com/articles/2019/09/10/dod-open-source-deasy-gao.aspx
- Coming out with policy, may not publish 20% but figure out the appropriate amount
- Initially released 2009 memo and going to update
- Defense Digital Service (DDS) working on open source more, have Code.mil
- Current engagements: International CoP, SSA, FSCS, Harvard research on code valuation
- International Community-of-Practice with Italian government and soon more EU governments
- FSCS - Federal Source Code Study - current research by Code.gov team focused on why some agencies publish code and others do not
- Kicking off Harvard research on code valuation
- What is the value of federal source code?
- What is the dollar amount?
- For each code base added, how much potential value (cost or efficiency) is provided to agencies?
- Plan to establish workgroup around this and will be asking for volunteers for the study for data collection
- Events: Spring Federal Source Code Summit
- Spring 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
- Kudos: SSA, Forest Service
- SSA - permission granted to have public GH accounts and publish OSS
- Forest Service - provided first code.json file, we are linking them with USDA liaison (Alex Pyle)
- ARL - releasing two of eight OSS code bases, more on the way
- Learning: demos, experts, topics
- Request for topics and demos
- What do others want to see/hear?