GitHub Dashboard

About

The data aggregated here is pulled from public GitHub repositories using the GitHub APIs. The federal organizations included are those who have self-identified themselves as "U.S. Federal" on the page at https://government.github.com/community/. The list includes federal agencies as well as FFRDCs.

Many federal agencies have opted to utilize GitHub to jump-start development efforts, eliminate the costs of maintaining an on premise code repository, increase transparency, and avoid costs associated with transporting code between development teams.

This site is intended to:

  1) Provide a metrics-based dashboard of an open-source tool to ensure that the federal government is utilizing such tools as effectively as possible. High-level metrics are provided to include metadata completeness, trending data, and code discoverability.

  2) Insight for an agency or sub-agency executive into which agency/subagency assets are housed in GitHub.

  3) Code discoverability and usability for developers looking to reuse what the federal government has already developed. Code discoverability depends upon development teams providing point of contacts, effective project descriptions, and packaged releases (which accommodate those federal entities only re-using code).