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Open Source for Government

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Summary: A collaborative resource for government employees looking to participate in the open source community.

Heads up! This post is archived and here for historical purposes. It may no longer be accurate or reflect my views. Proceed at your own risk.

I encourage you to read through Open Source for Government, a collaborative resource for government employees looking to participate in the open source community.

Also please feel free to fork and contribute (no technical knowledge necessary).

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Ben Balter

I'm Ben Balter, and I write here about developer platforms, product and engineering leadership, open source, and showing your work. I spent over a decade building developer platforms at GitHub. For five years I was a product manager for trust and safety, shipping 500+ features and the API endpoints behind them to 50M+ developers. I also led a bottom-up rewrite of GitHub Pages and wrote the open source library behind GitHub's license detection, and my open source projects have hundreds of millions of downloads. I wrote Open and Async, the playbook for remote and distributed teams, and shipped a Model Context Protocol (MCP) server alongside it so agents can query it directly. More about the author

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Originally published October 9, 2012 View revision history

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