18F's Phaedra Chrousos says critics' concerns tend to be misconceptions.

​Federal agencies now have an easier path to procuring open source software development tool GitHub's enterprise offering​.

U.S. Capitol (Photo: Architect of the Capitol Flickr) D.C. is known for its networking happy hours. Even after the 9-to-5 grind, folks are still gathering at local…

https://scoopmedia-preprod.go-vip.net/fedscoop/wp-content/uploads/sites/5/2013_05_Balter.mp3 GitHub’s Ben Balter, a former presidential innovation fellow, gives his insights into the new White House open data policy and what it means for federal agencies…

The release of the White House open data policy was met with widespread acclaim by open government advocates. Here is what they had to say about it: Hudson…

An Octocat, GitHub’s mascot. Governments are turning to GitHub faster than you can count the arms on an Octocat. The number of active government users of the open-source…

At the end of May, Haley Van Dyck, a policy analyst with the Office of Management and Budget, submitted a “pull request” — a request to change…

The National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency is one of several agencies in 2014 that has joined GitHub, an online open source platform. Making NGA data available on GitHub will…

Ben Balter, GitHub’s government evangelist, outlines in this FedScoopTV interview the advantages of open source and the innovative ways government is using it.

Ben Balter, government evangelist at GitHub. Ben Balter, a government evangelist at GitHub, is a former presidential innovation fellow and a FedScoop contributor. Looking back on serving…