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The Standard for Public Code gives public organizations a model for preparing open source solutions to enable collaborations with similar public organizations in other places.It includes guidance for policy makers, city administrators, developers and vendors.

The Standard for Public Code is in a draft format.We are preparing it for a version 1.0 release.Currently, we are testing it on a small number of codebases.

If you want to apply the Standard for Public Code to your codebase, just go ahead, it's an open standard and free for anyone to use.If you wish to advertise the codebase community's aspiration to meet the criteria of the Standard for Public Code, link the documentation of this commitment from thestandard-for-public-code-commitment badge.To see how ready your codebase is, you can do a quickeligibility self assessment that will give you a rough idea of how much work you may need to do to meet all criteria.

The standardshould be mostly self-explanatory in how to apply it to your codebase.If anything in the standard is unclear, we encourage you to open an issue here so that we can help you and anyone else who feels the same as you.For inspiration, look at thecommunity built implementation guide which contains examples and other tips.

We believe public policy and software should be inclusive, usable, open, legible, accountable, accessible and sustainable.This means we need a new way of designing, developing and procuring both the source code and policy documentation.

This standard sets a quality level for codebases that meets the needs of public organizations, institutions and administrations as well as other critical infrastructural services.

The standard lives atwww.standardforpubliccode.org/.Seeindex.md for an overview of all content.

We are looking for people like you tocontribute to this project by suggesting improvements and helping develop it. 😊Get started by reading ourcontributors guide.Since it is such a core document we will accept contributions when they add significant value.We've described how we govern the standard in thegovernance statement.

Please note that this project is released with acode of conduct.By participating in this project you agree to abide by its terms.Please be lovely to all other community members.

The repository builds to a static site deployed atwww.standardforpubliccode.org/.It is built withGitHub pages andJekyll.

The content is made to be built withJekyll, which means you will need ruby and ruby-bundler installed, for example:

sudo apt-get install -y ruby ruby-bundler ruby-dev

Ifruby andbundle are installed, one can install the ruby dependencies:

bundle configset --local path'vendor/bundle'bundle install

After which the site can be rendered locally:

script/serve.sh

A variety of test scripts are included.The scriptscript/test-all.sh wraps running of all local tests.

See the scripts in thescript folder.

Seeprinting.md.

©The authors and contributors

The standard islicensed under CC 0, which also applies to all illustrations and the documentation.This means anyone can do anything with it.If you contribute you also grant these rights to others.You can read more about how to help in thecontributing guide.