Building an open source community
Developed from speaking notes of a keynote provided at the U.S. Department of Energy Solar Energy Workshop on open source software.
Joseph Castle
United States
Dr. Castle is an advisor for SAS Institute and assists U.S. public sector agencies with understanding data analytics, cloud-based environments, development operations (DevOps), and open source software (OSS). In his U.S. federal career, he worked at the General Services Administration and the White House, created and led a digital service team, and directed the federal government's Open Source Program Office (OSPO) aka Code.gov. He is an OSS developer, advocate, and researcher, and speaks frequently about all three.
Community Contributions
What Code.gov taught us about increasing community engagement
Keynote address at the Department of Energy SETO open source workshop.
Digital.gov
Guest member and regular contributor to open source project to provide guidance to federal agencies on building better digital services in government.
Code.gov
Front-end engineer and director. Led the development and maintenance of Code.gov. This included being the front-end engineer and community builder. Often conducted and participated in hackathons and speaking events about federal source code.
Various Code.gov blog posts
Three-plus years of Code.gov happenings - hackathons, speaking engagements, conferences, etc.
How can the US build its OSS policy?
Event w/ GitHub, Open Forum Europe, Sovereign Tech Fund, Digital Public Goods Charter and spoke about Code.gov and the federal source code policy.
EU Study on Open Source SW and HW
Contributed and cited in EU study on open source.
An Organizational Analysis of Publishing the People's Code
PhD dissertation on the federal source policy and OSS publication.
