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Convincing government management on open sourcing their apps
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We received an email off list asking about resources (like a white paper) that someone in government could use to convince their upper management on the value of releasing in-house developed software as open source. While I don't know of a go-to white paper, I figured I'd try to start an answer here for others to view and contribute to. I'm pretty... more »
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Fwd: Introducing PDX CitySync
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This looks like it's taking the notion of "government as a platform" to the next level. My understanding is that the city is providing a new website called CitySync which runs parallel to the main city website - though could possibly replace the main website one day. This isn't just any government website though, it's meant to be something residents can... more »
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Application Proposals
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Jen, Thanks for getting back to me. I have already contacted the public advocate's office here in NY. Unfortunately I feel that this application and others that would promote actual transparency will never be supported by the powers that be for reasons I will not get in to. I will do my best to move this forward and thnk you for the advice.... more »
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SF's open source Enterprise Addressing System now in production.
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San Francisco developer Paul McCullough recently announced on the EAS discuss list [1] that SF's open source Enterprise Addressing System is now in production there. The Department of Building Inspection in SF is now using the system for daily business-critical operations. Big congratulations to the SF team! More about EAS:... more »
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Proprietary Lions and Bears in the Civic Commons Marketplace
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Hey all-- Our friend and advisor Andrew Hoppin just wrote a great guest piece on the Civic Commons blog, inspired by a conversation that picked up on twitter earlier this week re: the relationship between the civic commons marketplace and proprietary software. Please have a read and weigh in in the comments.... more »
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Machine Readable City Process Flow Data and Diagrams
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The last post about process got me thinking. Does anyone know if there
is an example or standard for publishing local city's process flows in
a machine readable format? Let me give you a little background on this
question and hopefully shed some light it. In November, when Open
Chattanooga was launching our Open Data Catalog, one of the coders... more »
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