Others are only semi-public; these generally consist forks of software they use or private repos used for external collaboration.
I'm working on getting some of our stuff open-sourced. When it's written by contractors, the intellectual property rules can get complicated. Convincing a contractor to publish code their consultants wrote for a government project, no matter how minor, can be a tricky bit of advocacy. Sometimes they have really skewed ideas surrounding IP that must be overcome before this can happen. (Best case, our code will likely end up hosted by Internet2 or a similar foundation.)
https://github.com/HHS
There are more if you know where to look. Some of the GitHub organizations are in their infancy, like NIAID's:
https://github.com/niaid
Others are only semi-public; these generally consist forks of software they use or private repos used for external collaboration.
I'm working on getting some of our stuff open-sourced. When it's written by contractors, the intellectual property rules can get complicated. Convincing a contractor to publish code their consultants wrote for a government project, no matter how minor, can be a tricky bit of advocacy. Sometimes they have really skewed ideas surrounding IP that must be overcome before this can happen. (Best case, our code will likely end up hosted by Internet2 or a similar foundation.)