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Gather, curate, and feature stories of public servants and civic hackers using GitHub as part of their open government innovations

http://government.github.com/

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Merge pull request #267 from github/ngageoint … 

Add ngageoint
latest commit b5d325756e
Ben Balter benbalter authored
_data Add ngageoint
_includes Get rid of modernizr.js and use html5shiv.js directly.
_layouts add link to supporting pages sidebar
_posts capitalize Git and GitHub
assets make comments larger;
docs change skip to content to "supports"
images add image to uk post, bump date to today
script Fix script/fetch-us such that it uses the datafile properly.
.bowerrc move all vendored assets to bower for maintainability
.editorconfig Add EditorConfig to normalize spacing
.gitignore Fix responsive design.
.ruby-version better ruby versioning
.travis.yml kill notifications
404.md Update 404.md.
CNAME add cname
CONTRIBUTING.md link out to style guide from submit, fixes #148
Gemfile Be consistent with the quotes type.
Gemfile.lock dat :gem: bump
Rakefile Be consistent with the quotes type.
_config.yml Remove the "root" config option.
archive.html Switch to `row-fluid`.
bower.json Get rid of modernizr.js and use html5shiv.js directly.
categories.html Switch to `row-fluid`.
community.md Switch to `row-fluid`.
features.md Fix features page.
feed.xml Replace tabs with spaces
index.html Make the instructions more welcoming for non-government
organizations.json Update calls to site.organizations to site.data.organizations.
readme.md Travis SVG badge 'cuz why not.
sitemap.xml Remove the reference to sitemap.xsl
readme.md

GitHub and Government Build Status

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Gather, curate, and feature stories of people using GitHub as part of their open government innovations.

The site is open source (here's all the code!) and is a tool for and by the community.

Submit issues and pull requests for stories, site ideas or copy edits.

Goals

  • Share stories of real world experiences using GitHub in open Government
  • Demystify open source terminology
  • Showcase the community using GitHub to promote connections and sharing between individuals and organizations.
  • Make getting started with GitHub easier

Under the Hood

This site is made with Jekyll, an open source static site generator. This means the Jekyll program takes the content we want to be on the site and turns them into HTML files ready to be hosted somewhere. Awesomely, GitHub provides free web hosting for repositories, called GitHub Pages, and that's how this site is hosted. The content for the site is on a branch named gh-pages.

Contributing

Fix/Edit Content

If you see an error or a place where content should be updated or improved, just fork this repository to your account, make the change you'd like and then submit a pull request. If you're not able to make the the change, file an issue.

Add a Story

Have an open government story to share? Instructions for contributing a story are in docs/submit.md.

Add Organization

If you know of an organization that should be added to the organization list that generates the matrix of avatars on the Community page: fork this repository, open the _data/organizations.yml file and add it to the appropriate section of the list in the format being used. Commit your change and submit a pull request to us!

To Set up Locally

You can take all the files of this site and run them just on your computer as if it were live online, only it's just on your machine.

Requirements

If you have installed GitHub for Windows or GitHub for Mac, Git was also installed automatically.

To copy the repository's files from here onto your computer and to view and serve those files locally, at your computer's command line type:

git clone https://github.com/github/government.github.com.git
cd government.github.com
script/bootstrap
script/server

Open http://localhost:4000 in your browser

Don't see what you're looking for? Create an issue, we'll do our best to help you out.

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