Code.gov, a U.S. government website for promoting the sharing of custom-developed software code, was launched Thursday with listings of nearly 50 open-source projects from various government agencies.

Want to collaborate on government open source code projects? Don’t forget about code.gov. Technologists who want to support the various missions of the federal government need not take on a full-time ...

Back in August, the Obama Administration announced a new policy that requires 20 percent of the federal government's software projects be open source. To make all of that material easily accessible, ...

The White House’s Office of Management and Budget has finalized its source code policy for federal agencies, which will make code open for sharing and re-use across all federal agencies. In a blog ...

The White House has launched Code.gov, a repository for all of the federal government's custom-developed software. The site follows up on the federal source code policy that the Obama administration ...

A bill requiring federal agencies to share their custom code across the government is one step closer to becoming law. Last week, the House of Representatives passed the Source Code Harmonization and ...