https://github.com/government/welcome

Information on joining the government community — a collaborative community for sharing best practices in furtherance of open source, open data, and open government efforts.
https://github.com/government/welcome

best-practices community government peer-group

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Information on joining the government community — a collaborative community for sharing best practices in furtherance of open source, open data, and open government efforts.

• Host: GitHub
• URL: https://github.com/government/welcome
• Owner: government
• Created: 2014-03-03T18:58:06.000Z (over 10 years ago)
• Default Branch: master
• Last Pushed: 2024-05-21T02:52:59.000Z (6 months ago)
• Last Synced: 2024-08-02T07:09:49.545Z (3 months ago)
• Topics: best-practices, community, government, peer-group
• Size: 1.95 KB
• Stars: 175
• Watchers: 58
• Forks: 21
• Open Issues: 1
• Metadata Files:
  • Readme: README.md

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• awesome-github - GitHub Government Community - Information on joining GitHub's [government community](https://government.github.com/) — a collaborative community for sharing best practices in furtherance of open source, open data, and open government efforts. (Infomation for people who are new to GitHub)

README

        
# Government community on GitHub

Welcome to the government community on GitHub, a collaborative community for sharing best practices in furtherance of open source, open data, and open government efforts. To encourage open dialog, the community is a semi-private community, with only government employees having access.

## Who's eligible?

Anyone 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. 

If 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).

## How to join

In order to join the community, we must first confirm that you are, in fact, a government employee:

1. 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.

2. 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.

3. [Confirm your government email address](https://help.github.com/articles/setting-up-email-verification).

4. Visit [government-community.githubapp.com](https://government-community.githubapp.com/government/best-practices) in your web browser.

5. 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).

## Questions

*If you have any questions or have trouble confirming your identity above, please email [[email protected]](mailto:[email protected]).*