I want to relate a great little thing that happened here at 18th and F yesterday.
At 11am yesterday morning, members of the GSA.gov team, Sarah Hyder and Patrick Son, met with [Nutty Prawn]*, [Endearing Marlin]*, and me to talk about how to integrate FBOpen into GSA's mobile website, m.gsa.gov, on its How To Sell to the Government" page.
At 11:29am, we had working code up and running on their staging server.
We get so used to things taking multiple meetings, multiple days/weeks/months, and lots of back and forth. A couple stars aligned to make this one easy, but bottom line: it took 29 minutes to go from “How could we do this?” to a working code integration that went live the same afternoon.
I thought you should hear about what can happen when you get two simple, clean GSA codebases in a room together. This is what gets me excited about working at 18F every day!
Kudos especially to Sarah, Patrick and their team. In m.gsa.gov they've built something on a nice, flexible, modern architecture that's amenable to the same rapid prototyping and iteration that 18F is all about.