@skiles

The "DOGE-BOIS"
Don't like COMPETITION!

@skiles Thank you for your service.

I’m heartbroken by all these losses, day after day, but a big part of that is being proud of what y’all accomplished.

@skiles John, while unsurprised, know that my appreciation & admiration for 18F and the other transformational technologists at the Federal level; as a former CIO of a State Board of Elections, a current CIO of a Public Transportation Agency, and a Citizen; all three of which has seen the passion and results of what you were doing, is huge. All of you were playing a critical role in showing how IT, done right, could truly improve the lives of American Citizens

I am so sorry it has come to this

"we were working on important projects, including improving access to weather data with NOAA, making it easier and faster to get a passport with the Department of State, supporting free tax filing with the IRS"

All projects #Musk and #Trump/#Krasnov opposed. Sad, but not surprising the axe fell upon you.

May your resistance be loud and effective.

Might I also suggest updates on the #Fediverse and not just #Bluesky as the site currently suggests?

Give them hell. We're all with you.

@skiles sorry, for you and us!

Was 18F involved in online passport renewal? It was without doubt the single best govt website and process I've ever used.

I'm a middling web dev of 20 yrs and the UX, process and flow was just amazingly fluid and nigh on as perfect as it could be

@skiles @dcbikeguy John and colleagues, thank you and sincere condolences. It’s one thing to get fired, but entirely another when you’re laid off by ignorant children (Elon included).

Thank you for your work, and here’s hoping the Cuban idea works for you all!

#18F

@skiles Could you set yourselves up as a commercial business, perhaps a workers' co-op (and perhaps retaining the 18F brand) to bid for commercial work but including commercial work on the government projects you have special expertise on?

After all, your team (and brand) have an established reputation, and the government is going to have to hire someone (probably by competitive tender) to build and maintain those systems!

Good wishes to you all from Scotland!🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

@skiles
Thank you for your service. I'm pretty sure you didn't take this assignment for the money but rather to help the US government. It's disappointing that the gov't is not more appreciative of your efforts, but that's actually pretty low on the list of things that our present gov't has done that is disappointing.

I wish you the best of luck in your future endeavors. I hope that the folk with the skills to do this work, both technical and interpersonal will land squarely on their feet.
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@skiles
Have you thought about joining Mark Cuban's effort to retain 18F as a group of consultants to the government?

I also like someone's suggestion that the consultancy group be named 18FU...

@skiles

Can you serve as a hub for story collection? We voters don’t know what the Federal government does for us.

Maybe help laid off (words matter so I think you need to frame it as Republicans fired us without cause, or DOGE fired us without cause) staff organize their story (e.g. give such people a wizard to guide them through telling their story) and, necessarily anonymize it?

Then make the stories & people available to media?

We are in a civil war with ruthless Republicans.

@skiles

Thank you for your service. I've seen a number of posts about the purging of #18F on LinkedIn. I've been working to update @wikipedia articles with the record of this carnage, with the help of the @internetarchive :

https://funcrunch.medium.com/the-u-s-government-is-erasing-our-history-e3be0776ee67?sk=aeb9aae7198d67b7b0990f023bf9553a