Jan2020.md

Meeting Minutes - 1/16/2020

Welcome

• Thank you for joining today!
• Purpose: This is a forum to learn from each other, not about compliance but about realizing the benefits of engaging with the public and releasing software.
• Programming note - next meeting is February 20th.
  • Meeting info. sent through Code.gov listserv.
  • Sign up for CODE listserv - [email protected]. Leave the subject and body blank.

IOUs from Code.gov - collected at the meeting in December

1. There was a request for a Slack channel for communication among the CoP outside the listserv. We use 18F Slack (really TTS now) and our channel is #code-gov-partners. Anyone with a .gov and .mil can join. Send a message to Amin Mehr ([email protected]) requesting to be added to the channel.
2. Peter Meyer's email ([email protected]) for those interested in participating in the Software Productivity and Quality Working Group.
3. As requested, here is the agency liaison list. Please keep me ([email protected]) and Amin ([email protected]) updated on required changes (a PR works too!).

OMB update on FSCP

• Policy (M-16-21) continues - 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 2019 but OMB will extend pilot indefinitely in new Automated Tech Policy.
  • Asking agencies to email OMB about new policy - Rebecca Williams ([email protected]).
• Completing quarterly agency phone calls - slightly more than 1/2 way finished.

Updates to Code.gov

• Updates to platform
  • A new front-end release went out Dec. 11 (release notes). Updates include:
  • Update to site with USWDS.
  • Various component and vulnerability updates.
• Metadata schema meeting
  • Scheduled for 1/22 at 2pm.
  • Send email to Joe ([email protected]) or Amin ([email protected]) if you would like to participate.

Current news

• Updates by Nicole Williams, Code.gov’s Comms Chief.
• Federal Source Code Conference April 16, 2020 @ GSA 18F! - Take Our Federal Source Conference Survey!
• ICYMI:
  • How I replicated an $86 million project in 57 lines of code
  • The rise of open-source software
  • The 10 Hottest New Open-Source Technologies And Tools of 2019
• Upcoming Blogs: Community Building in Open Source, Diversity In Code (Black History Month), Women in Code (Women’s History) NOTE: For those wishing to contribute to these blogs please contact me on Slack @NicoleYvonneWilliams or at [email protected].
• Upcoming Social Media: MLK Day of Service (1/20), Chinese New Year (1/25), National Lego Day (1/28), National Puzzle Day (1/29), Mentoring Month (All January)
• Follow Us on Twitter, Linkedin, Medium.

Current engagements

• FSCS - Federal Source Code Study
  • Wrapping up data analysis and validating, finalizing draft for publication.
  • Release planned for March.
• Software Productivity and Quality Working Group
  • Includes BLS, NASA, NIST, DOD, GSA
  • Monthly calls with demos, super geeky conversations on code value and quality.
  • Speak with Peter Meyer ([email protected]) at BLS if interested in joining.
• Federal Source Code Toolkit
  • Planned for Spring w/ release at the Spring Federal Source Code Summit.
  • Establish workgroup.
• 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.

Events

• 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.

Kudos

• DOT and DOD - working to clean up code.json files for publication on Code.gov.
• SSA - Code Documentation Day 2020 - Thursday, 1/23, at SSA. Contact Joe Amalfitano ([email protected]).
• Nikki Williams, Code.gov Comms Chief - completing and sending out Federal Source Code Summit survey, publishing Code of Conduct blog.