Government best practices

A collaborative community for sharing best practices for using GitHub in government

Best practices documents

• Account Management
• Agency examples
• Collaborative Policymaking
• Open Source Community building
• Copyright
• Design Systems and Style Guides
• Frequently asked questions
• License guidance
• GitHub for open data
• Open source
• Permissions and ownership
• Project Ideas
• Records management
• Resources
• User research in government

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About this site

This site is collaboratively authored by a peer-group of government employees that share best practices in furtherance of open source, open data, and open government efforts. Interested in joining? Find out how.