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Matthew Garrett

If anyone is confused about 18F: imagine an in-house consultancy who could show up and solve your problems but who would then be able to use that knowledge to solve someone else's problems without billing them for the prior work, saving everyone money and also making a bunch of it open source. People took pay cuts to work there. Destroying them is a tragedy

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jarkko

Jarkko Sakkinen

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@mjg59 I only wish that this was the worst example of initiatives defunded so far.
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bardmoss@autistics.life

Lukewarm Skywalker 🇨🇦🇧🇧🇲🇽🇬🇱

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@mjg59
I don't know whether you saw this, but Mark Cuban is wanting to hire all those people and lease them back to the government as a consultant firm.

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mjg59@nondeterministic.computer

Matthew Garrett

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@bardmoss there's already several non-profit consulting firms specialising in government work, many of them employing a bunch of former 18f people (there was a maximum amount of time someone could stay at 18f) - it'd be great if he worked with existing infrastructure rather than starting from scratch

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