The City of New York is embarking on an open source project, including an improved Checkbook NYC Beta site [1]. One thing they're looking for is real-life examples of gov't-to-gov't code re-use -- this will help them advocate for more such projects.
Specifically: examples where Government A released something as open source software, then Government B used it, resulting in
* Savings for Government B, or
* Savings for Government A later when B improved the software, or
* Some other quantifiable benefit
I'll ask elsewhere too, and look over Scott Goodwin's marvelous spreadsheet [2] to see what I can find, but if anyone here has great examples, please post them. I will be collecting them at http://wiki.civiccommons.org/Open_Source_Examples -- we'd like this to be an advocacy resource for everyone.
-Karl
[0] http://groups.google.com/a/civiccommons.org/group/discuss/browse_thread/thread/c885a710b33de86c#
[1] http://www.comptroller.nyc.gov/mymoneynyc/checkbooknyc/
(Already an excellent financial transparency site, IMHO, and they want to take it further.)
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Very helpful -- thanks, John!
-K
That's the thing now at NCI/NIH -- the system for exchanging clinical
trial information?
http://cabig.cancer.gov/solutions/applications/integrationhub/
https://cabig.nci.nih.gov/tools/caBIGIntegrationHub
I didn't realize DOE had funded initial work (seems odd that they would,
but hey, what's in a name?). I'm guessing that's
"Department of Energy workshop grant DE-FG02-04ER63931"
as detailed in http://authors.library.caltech.edu/20219/ ?
Sanity-checking here because I just got the above from Google :-).
-K
I saw a ref in a doc about this and was told this by a DOE person (sorry can't find the ref)
interestingly here is Gforge for the National Cancer Institute: http://gforge.nci.nih.gov/
js
Thank you! I've added these details to
http://wiki.civiccommons.org/Open_Source_Case_Studies#Gov-to-Gov_Re-use_Examples
...so at least the relevant references are handy.
-Karl