On: Pull Request: Launch GOV.UK

[dmytton]

This is an example of how to run a government IT project. Extremely well run team, excellent programmers and designers and using a lot of interesting technology. That's cool for the tech community but for the majority of the users the biggest benefit is a single location for everything. Direct.gov.uk was still a collection of links to lots of external sites but the goal with gov.uk is to have everything on one site. I think this is a great project.

Some background at http://digital.cabinetoffice.gov.uk/2012/10/16/directgov-a-q...

[apaprocki → dmytton]

The Presidential Innovation Fellows[1] are attempting to do the same thing w/ MyGov[2] and four other projects. The code for MyGov will be on GH[3].

  [1] http://www.whitehouse.gov/innovationfellows
  [2] http://www.whitehouse.gov/innovationfellows/mygov
  [3] https://github.com/presidential-innovation-fellows/mygov

[antihero → dmytton]

I've always thought a dedicated team of coders, managed and directed well, would be much better for government/educational IT than going with giant corrupt companies. I do hope this goes well.!

[glomph → dmytton]

But gov.uk just links to direct.gov.uk which then links to external sites....