10x website Problem Statement and Goals

Macro

Opportunity: The U.S. government employs many capable public servants who observe problems with government technology and are ideally positioned to pursue solutions to these problems.

Problem: Unfortunately, many of these talented folks are unable to pursue solutions to these problems due to a lack of funding, support, or necessary skills.

Micro

Opportunity: The 10x team can offer funding and guidance to creative civil servants who want to solve problems facing the government in technology spaces.

Problem: Most civil servants who might benefit from 10x funding, guidance, or investment model do not know we exist.

About 10x

10x is an incremental investment pipeline that lives in GSA’s Technology Transformation Services’ (TTS) Office of Products and Programs (OPP). We fund products and services that possess groundbreaking ideas or technology with the potential for significant return on investment. We base our approach on modern venture capital practices. Our methods require spending fewer taxpayer dollars to ensure that only the best ideas get funded.

Website goal

The 10x website will provide civil servants across government the information they need to apply for funding and guidance to explore their ideas to solve government problems. It will also provide information and resources to civil servants who want to model something similar within their own agencies, as well as up-to-date financial information for GSA leadership and oversight bodies.

User groups

Civil servants across government who have ideas to submit
GSA leadership and oversight bodies
Civil servants across government who want to learn about the 10x methodology and apply it at their agency

Road map

as of Feb. 13, 2018

Website development

The 10x website is built with Jekyll and uses a gulp workflow for development. The following are instruction for MacOS and a terminal application.

Install Jekyll

You only need to do this once. Once Jekyll is installed, just follow the Start Jekyll instructions below

Clone the repo from Github and head to the project root in the terminal
Get ruby version manager and upgrade to ruby 2.4.2 (link)

> \curl -sSL https://get.rvm.io | bash -s stable --auto-dotfiles
> rvm install ruby-2.4.2
> rvm use ruby-2.4.2 --default

Install the latest gem bundler

> gem install bundler

From the project root, install the necessary files

> bundle install

Start the Jekyll server

Head to the project root in the terminal — this is usally something like code/10x
Start the jekyll server

> bundle exec jekyll serve --livereload --incremental

Head to your browser and go to the server address you see in the terminal. This usually looks like Server address: http://127.0.0.1:4000/— and youd point to http://127.0.0.1:4000/ in your web browser.

USWDS and gulp

10x is testing a pre-alpha version of the U.S. Web Design System based on a new set of variables and utility classes. The USWDS source files are in _vendor/uswds. Don't modify these source files. Make project customizations in three places:

_sass/_uswds-project-init.scss: Use this file to set the whitespace grid multiplier and the base font size.
_sass/_uswds-project-settings.scss: Use this file to set project-specific variables, like colors and fonts.
_sass/_uswds-project-custom.scss: Use this file to add custom CSS.

Gulp

This is a ⚠️ work in progress ⚠️ right now, but if you want to compile new stylesheets for 10x, use these commands:

gulp watch: this will watch _uswds-project-custom.scss and compile new styles
gulp build-production-utilities: will rebuild the production utilities. Run this manually when you make a change to project settings or init
gulp build-prototyping-utilities: will rebuild the prototyping utilities. Run this manually when you make a change to project settings or init

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