###Not a replacement, but as an additive GitHub can help you:
- Crowdsource collaboration
- Discuss (Open) Government
- Follow Projects/News
- Host Data or Free Stand Up Websites ADDING AN EDIT
- Sign up for GitHub here.
- Learn the lingo with the GitHub Glossary
- Or roughly:
- Repository = Folder of Files, Fork = Copy to You, Pull Request = Submit Change, Issue = Problem to Discuss
- Learn the syntax of this text with the Markdown Cheat Sheet
- Review the GitHub Basics Slideshow
- Or Ask Ben!
- Enter your first Internet Experience by clicking edit to submit a Pull Request.
- Share your favorite taco recipe at Taco Fancy.
- Or tryGit.
###GitHub to Work on Files Together ****
- Project Open Data is hosted via GitHub
- NY Open Data Handbook. There is less discussion there. 😞
- The Sunlight Policy Open Data Map is powered by GitHub's geoJSON viz & features a Gist for the South Bend Open Data Policy, see more at the budding @sunlightpolicy account, that hosts maps and csv files visualizations in the browser.
- The Sunlignt License-Free Document via the United States project is being developed and discusess openly on GitHub.
###GitHub as Discussion
- Project Open Data has hosted many discussions, see this licensing chat which resulted in policy change.
- Congress legislator data talks.
- This Court Listener thread was revisited 9 months later and quickly.
- GitHub and Government Communities
- Australia Open Data Policy
- DC Code project on GitHub here.
- Cambridge GIS data
Woot!!!
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