It's been a great year for the open source movement in government. I feel like we've moved the needle on the transparency, collaboration, and participation fronts. More importantly, the open government movement saw a fair amount of code released under open source licenses and lots of activity in the open data space.
In 2012, we discussed a variety of topics on opensource.com.
By far, our readers are most interested in exploring the final frontier while taking a peak under the hood of the Mars rover Curiosity. We took a look back at the history of open source in the U.S. government, provided a blue print for getting an open government policy passed, shared the first version on the Open Data Handbook, and much more. Here is a look at our ten most popular articles from 2012 in the open*government channel.
Top 10 open*government posts in 2012
- NASA achieves data goals for Mars rover with open source software, Mark Bohannon
- Open source in U.S. government in five minutes, Gunnar Hellekson
- Open source software policy is better without open source, Gunnar Hellekson
- Open Data Handbook version 1.0, Laura Newman
- LocalWiki project spawns open source communities, Jason Hibbets
- An open source city takes shape: Open, online tools and data, Jason Hibbets
- History of open source in government, Gunnar Hellekson
- How to get your city to pass an open government policy, Jason Hibbets
- Hacking on code and culture: Failure as validated learning, Jason Hibbets
- UK Government finalizes Open Standards Principles: The Bigger Picture, Mark Bohannon
As an added bonus, I decided to check out the stats for our top five most popular posts of all time. Here they are.
Top 5 open*government posts since 2010
- Open source is illegal?, Marek Mahut
- NASA achieves data goals for Mars rover with open source software, Mark Bohannon
- Lockheed Martin goes open source, people freak out, Gunnar Hellekson
- SCAP: computer security for the rest of us, Gunnar Hellekson
- Crowdsourced Icelandic constitution submitted to parliament, Jason Hibbets
2012 Honorable mentions
- A policy example for all government agencies: How Consumer Finance made open source both a policy and a mission
- A great achievement, so celebrate: Open States project achieves grand milestone
- Favorite interview: Community spotlight: 5 questions with John Scott, founder of MIL-OSS and Open Source for America
- Feel good story: Crowdsourced reports save emergency services overwhelmed by Hurricane Sandy
- Be careful what you Tweet: PolitwOOPs! Deleted tweets from politicians never die
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