Welcome
We are a group of engineers working in software engineering across government, some of us are hands on developers, others working in other technical or management roles.
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Learn about
Our Lean Coffee sessions
Lean coffees are held monthly on 4th Thursday of the month at 11.00-12.00.
Draft Terms of Reference
Review our draft terms of reference
Events, News and Blog
Learn about our news and events which include lightning talks and unconferences and In-person conferences.
Resources created by our community
Newsletter, open source projects, other resources such as coding guides and AI policies all created by and for the community
Special Interest groups
We publish and promote special interest groups run by our community
Our Vision
To provide a forum for collaboration for software engineers across government
- To learn and to teach
- To share ideas
- To have some fun
Our vision helps us fullfil our Objectives.
How are we doing this
- Engaging with the community on UK Government Digital Slack - in the #software-development channel
- Running monthly virtual lean coffee sessions
- Developing our GitHub repo
- Looking to run more themed events
- Hosting virtual software engineering meetups
- We have a small facilitation group that is doing some of the initial setup
Do you want to help facilitate the group ?
Drop an email to Andy Poole or David Heath or Shaun Hare and one of us can add you to the facilitators group
Join us!
- Join the community by signing up to our mailing list
- Chat with us in
#software-developmentin cross-gov slack. - Members can access our private community space where you’ll find notes from our past meetings
Contributing to this site
Pull requests are welcomed for this site see the readme on our GitHub Repo for more details.