GitChat is an open, informal chat with leading civic innovators using GitHub as a platform for engagement.

• We start an open Q&A "Issue" with a featured civic innovator.
• You post questions by adding a "Comment."
• Guests reply during the designated times.

• PandoDaily: Lt. Governor Gavin Newsom cries out for Open Government in the Github wilderness
• FCW: GSA's Hashmi goes to GitHub to talk IT trends and strategies
• FierceGovernmentIT: Not just a code repository; GitHub's potential as a social tool for government

• Gavin Newsom, Lt. Governor, California
• Sonny Hashmi, chief information officer, General Services Administration
• David Bray, chief information officer, Federal Communications Commission