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To encourage open dialog, the community is a semi-private community, with only government employees having access.\n\n## Who's eligible?\n\nAnyone with a government email address is encouraged to participate, including national/federal, state, local, and municipal employees. That means if your email ends in `.gov`, `.gov.uk`, `ci.champaign.il.us`, etc., you are eligible. Also, you need to be human. Agency accounts and robots need not apply. \n\nIf you're curious, [the constantly updated list of approved domains](https://github.com/benbalter/gman/blob/master/config/domains.txt) is available as part of the [GMan open source project](https://github.com/benbalter/gman).\n\n## How to join\n\nIn order to join the community, we must first confirm that you are, in fact, a government employee:\n\n1. If you don't already have one, [sign up](http://github.com/join) for a GitHub account. GitHub accounts should be personal to you. Human-sounding names like @benbalter are preferred over organization-specific names like @benbalter_abc_agency.\n\n2. Ensure that your government email is associated with your account. If you already have a GitHub account, you can simply [add your government email address](https://github.com/settings/emails) to your account.\n\n3. [Confirm your government email address](https://help.github.com/articles/setting-up-email-verification).\n\n4. Visit [government-community.githubapp.com](https://government-community.githubapp.com/government/best-practices) in your web browser.\n\n5. You should be automatically added and redirected to the GitHub Government community. You now have access to and can participate in the discussions available at [github.com/government](https://github.com/government).\n\n## Questions\n\n*If you have any questions or have trouble confirming your identity above, please email [government@github.com](mailto:government@github.com).*\n","project_url":"https://awesome.ecosyste.ms/api/v1/projects/github.com%2Fgovernment%2Fwelcome","html_url":"https://awesome.ecosyste.ms/projects/github.com%2Fgovernment%2Fwelcome","lists_url":"https://awesome.ecosyste.ms/api/v1/projects/github.com%2Fgovernment%2Fwelcome/lists"}