A small batch of examples of open source in action. Compiled by Eric Mill.
Nicole Fenton, a member of the public, saw the White House's digital service playbook and decided to make it read better for ordinary people.
- https://playbook.cio.gov
- Screen 1: http://konklone.io/open-source-examples/images/usds-help-improve.png
- usds/playbook#53
- Screen 2: http://konklone.io/open-source-examples/images/usds-copy-edits.png
- https://github.com/WhiteHouse/playbook/pull/53/files
- Screen 3: http://konklone.io/open-source-examples/images/usds-actual-edits.png
The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau engineering team launched a developer blog. I wanted to subscribe to their posts, but it didn't include an RSS feed -- so I built one for them.
18F's team working on online immigration services is using a public open source library ("searchkick") to build a powerful search engine. 18F pushed its limits and tested out an experimental approach with improved performance. They submitted their research and a patch to searchkick, which was accepted and thus improved the project for anyone using it.
- ankane/searchkick#250
- Screen: http://konklone.io/open-source-examples/images/18f-technical-immigration-patch.png
Waldo Jaquith spontaneously optimized the image files 18F's website uses, making our website load more quickly and efficiently.
Josh Tauberer, Derek Willis, and I began several open source projects that track and collect congressional data.
Connor Walsh, at the time a staff member for Rep. Eric Cantor, added a missing official Twitter account for Rep. Frelinghuysen.
- https://github.com/unitedstates/congress-legislators/pull/103/files
- Screen: http://konklone.io/open-source-examples/images/unitedstates-house-amendment-fixes.png
A volunteer came along and completely revamped how we collect photos of members of Congress, creating a valuable service for easy integration of high quality photos. Members of civil society joined in the discussion and helped confirm the licensing status of the work with GPO.
- unitedstates/congress-legislators#167
- Screen: http://konklone.io/open-source-examples/images/unitedstates-images.png
- propublica/sunlight-congress#432
- Screen: http://konklone.io/open-source-examples/images/unitedstates-images-licenses.png
- http://sunlightfoundation.com/blog/2014/03/05/congress-in-photos-a-civic-hacking-success-story/