Plans to add NSF as an Agency?

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Plans to add NSF as an Agency? #203

Closed pjmaechling closed 7 years ago

pjmaechling commented 7 years ago

National Science Foundation (NSF) projects produce a lot of useful software. Can you include NSF as an agency distributing codes through code.gov?

mattbailey0 commented 7 years ago

Good question!

Short answer: yes, NSF can opt to be included.

Longer answer: As an independent agency, NSF is not required to comply with the Federal Source Code Policy, which is what requires CFO Act agencies to inventory their code and participate in the open source program. That being said, NSF does incredible work, and we'd love to include it!