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'''CivicActions, Inc.''' is a services firm that provides technological support with a focus on [[free and open-source software]] to agencies.<ref>https://www.bloomberg.com/profile/company/1101922D:US</ref> |
'''CivicActions, Inc.''' is a services firm that provides technological support with a focus on [[free and open-source software]] to agencies.<ref>https://www.bloomberg.com/profile/company/1101922D:US</ref> |
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== History == |
== History == |
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CivicActions was founded as an [[Llc|LLC]] in [[2004]]. Their initial focus was to provide hosted FOSS group forming network technologies to ''[[Progressivism|progressive]]'' NGOs. They were the early adopters of [[Drupal]] (that they are a services provider now), [[Openwall Project|Openwall]] [[GNU/Linux]], and [[CiviCRM]]. Over the period between 2004–2012, its claimed that they have served over 175 [[organization]]s including [[Center for Reproductive Rights]], [[American Public Media]], [[Amnesty International]], and [[Society for Advancement of Chicanos/Hispanics and Native Americans in Science]]. |
CivicActions was founded as an [[Llc|LLC]] in [[2004]]. Their initial focus was to provide hosted FOSS group forming network technologies to ''[[Progressivism|progressive]]'' NGOs. They were the early adopters of [[Drupal]] (that they are a services provider now), [[Openwall Project|Openwall]] [[GNU/Linux]], and [[CiviCRM]]. Over the period between 2004–2012, its claimed that they have served over 175 [[organization]]s including [[Center for Reproductive Rights]]<ref>https://www.influencewatch.org/non-profit/center-for-reproductive-rights/</ref>, [[American Public Media]], [[Amnesty International]<ref>https://civicactions.com/team/sam-lerner</ref>], and [[Society for Advancement of Chicanos/Hispanics and Native Americans in Science]]. |
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In [[2014]], CivicActions, with people in federal, state and local governments, founded ''AGL (Agile Government Leadership)'' and published the ''Agile Government Handbook''. All of the work of AGL is published under [[public license]], where it can be used by government workers, as well as other [[agile software]] vendors. |
In [[2014]], CivicActions, with people in federal, state and local governments, founded ''AGL (Agile Government Leadership)''<ref>https://govfresh.com/tag/agile-government-leadership/</ref> and published the ''Agile Government Handbook''<ref>https://handbook.agilegovleaders.org</ref>. All of the work of AGL is published under [[public license]], where it can be used by government workers, as well as other [[agile software]] vendors. |
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In early 2016, CivicActions co-founder Aaron Pava was recruited to join the [[United States Digital Service]] team in [[Washington DC]] to assist the [[federal government]] in transforming procurement practices to enable federal agencies to more easily procure services from small businesses like CivicActions. He returned to CivicActions in November 2016. |
In early 2016, CivicActions co-founder Aaron Pava was recruited to join the [[United States Digital Service]] team in [[Washington DC]] to assist the [[federal government]] in transforming procurement practices to enable federal agencies to more easily procure services from small businesses like CivicActions.<ref>https://confengine.com/agiledc/proposal/610/agile-gov-playbook-dissecting-the-new-white-house-techfar-handbook</ref> He returned to CivicActions in November 2016. |
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== Campaigns == |
== Campaigns == |
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| Founded | July 2004 |
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| Type | Incorporation |
| Location | |
| Fields | Civic technology Agile development Free software development |
Key people | Aaron Pava (Management & Operations) Henry Poole (Management & Operations) |
Employees | 51 - 100 [2] |
| Website | civicactions |
CivicActions, Inc. is a services firm that provides technological support with a focus on free and open-source software to agencies.[3]
History
CivicActions was founded as an LLC in 2004. Their initial focus was to provide hosted FOSS group forming network technologies to progressive NGOs. They were the early adopters of Drupal (that they are a services provider now), Openwall GNU/Linux, and CiviCRM. Over the period between 2004–2012, its claimed that they have served over 175 organizations including Center for Reproductive Rights[4], American Public Media, [[Amnesty International][5]], and Society for Advancement of Chicanos/Hispanics and Native Americans in Science.
In 2014, CivicActions, with people in federal, state and local governments, founded AGL (Agile Government Leadership)[6] and published the Agile Government Handbook[7]. All of the work of AGL is published under public license, where it can be used by government workers, as well as other agile software vendors.
In early 2016, CivicActions co-founder Aaron Pava was recruited to join the United States Digital Service team in Washington DC to assist the federal government in transforming procurement practices to enable federal agencies to more easily procure services from small businesses like CivicActions.[8] He returned to CivicActions in November 2016.
Campaigns
Some of the people at CivicActions helped to several campaigns.
Defective by Design
Gregory Heller and Henry Poole, who are both involved in Free Software Foundation and CivicActions, with the help of Peter T. Brown who was the president of FSF, have played major role at formation of Defective by Design, an anti-DRM campaign advocating for elimination of digital restrictions.
Work
Clients
As of 2020, those entities were clients of CivicActions:
- California Polytechnic State University - Rebuilding of Digital Democracy Platform and DevOps pipeline [9] [10]
- Defense Security Cooperation Agency - Creation of GlobalNet [11] [12]
- Department of Education - Creation of Lincs[13] [14]
- Department of Justice (through Acquia) [15]
- Department of Treasury (through Acquia)
- U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs - CMS modernization [16] [17]
- Federal Communications Commission - Modernizing the website [18]
- San Francisco Human Services Agency - Creation of Eatfresh [19] [20]
Services
CivicActions provides several services.[21] Those are claimed to be:
- UX [22]
- Open Data
- Security & Compliance
- Support
- Drupal [23]
- DevOps [24]
- Education Services
- Quality Assurance
- Innovation Lab
Technologies in use
Based on the source codes of their projects[25], CivicActions uses those technologies in its projects:
- React
- Pa11y
- DKAN
- USWDS
- Drupal
- Ilias
- Moodle
- Mattermost
- Symfony
- Docker
- Kubernetes
- Helm
- Ansible
- MariaDB
- Traefik
- Apache Solr
- Elasticsearch
- Graylog
- GitLab
- Jenkins
- Gemini
- OpenSCAP
- GovReady
- OWASP ZAP
See also
- Defective by Design - a campaign supported by Henry Poole of CivicActions
- Free Software Foundation - associate of Civicactions
- Free open-source software - the philosophy behind CivicActions
Sources and references
- ^ https://ie.globaldatabase.com/company/civicactions
- ^ https://www.govtech.com/100/2017/CivicActions.html
- ^ https://www.bloomberg.com/profile/company/1101922D:US
- ^ https://www.influencewatch.org/non-profit/center-for-reproductive-rights/
- ^ https://civicactions.com/team/sam-lerner
- ^ https://govfresh.com/tag/agile-government-leadership/
- ^ https://handbook.agilegovleaders.org
- ^ https://confengine.com/agiledc/proposal/610/agile-gov-playbook-dissecting-the-new-white-house-techfar-handbook
- ^ https://www.drupal.org/case-study/digital-democracy-redesign-drupal-8
- ^ https://iatpp.calpoly.edu/digital-democracy
- ^ https://github.com/CivicActions/globalnet
- ^ https://medium.com/civicactions/one-platform-18-organizations-6-countries-and-9-launches-723016365468
- ^ https://lincs.ed.gov
- ^ https://community.lincs.ed.gov
- ^ https://www.acquia.com/about-us/newsroom/press-releases/acquia-awarded-fedramp-ato-department-treasury-april-4-2016
- ^ https://techfarhub.cio.gov/learning-center/case-studies/VA-gov-modernization-comparative-analysis
- ^ https://drive.google.com/file/d/1oV_FuBArq4gYlSJz0ZXf4WWJf3Z6iStu/view
- ^ https://www.fcc.gov/news-events/blog/2015/04/20/modernizing-fccgov-website
- ^ https://www.leahspantry.org/blog/2014/11/18/eatfreshorg-impact-evaluation-results
- ^ https://snapedtoolkit.org/interventions/programs/eatfresh/
- ^ https://civicactions.com/approach
- ^ https://expertmap.eu/job/ux-designer-content-at-civicactions/
- ^ https://www.drupal.org/civicactions
- ^ https://www.mynext.team/job/software-development/devops-engineer-at-civicactions/17904362
- ^ https://github.com/CivicActions
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