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NY Senate Open Source
Open Source initiatives for the New York State Senate
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Motivation and Goals
The New York Senate has traditionally been a closed body, lending credence to the term, Three men in a room. Under the new majority, the Office of the CIO was created and empowered to bring government to the citizens of New York. We have three main goals: Transparency
Participation
Efficiency
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Areas of Focus
Senate websites (public and internal)
Internal E-mail/Calendaring/Collaboration
Constituent Relationship Management
Legislative data
Help Desk and Problem Tracking
Software development and code management
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Senate websites - Internet
Original external website: Minimal interactive features Difficult to maintain No direct control for member offices
New website: Drupal-based Highly interactive Each member is empowered
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Senate websites - Intranet
Current internal website: Lotus-based Difficult to locate information
Proposed Intranet website: Drupal-based Advanced indexing and search capabilities Better integration with CRM and OpenLeg
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Internal E-mail/Groupware
Currently: Lotus Notes/Domino
Investigating alternatives, including: Google Apps Zimbra Open-Xchange Spicebird Scalix CollabSuite, Zarafa, Unison, Bynari, PostPath, Kolab
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Constituent Relationship Mgmt
Currently: OMIS (mainframe-based application)
Investigating alternatives, including: CiviCRM (open source) Lockheed-Martin IQ (best-of-breed proprietary) Orange Leap (formerly, MPower) SugarCRM, SpendidCRM, CentricCRM, Vtiger, XRMS iConstituent Aristotle
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Legislative Data
Originally: LBDC public website
Now: OpenLeg bill data service
Written in Java using Jetty servlet engine
Hourly updates from LBDC via FTP
RESTful API
Examples of API usage: Drupal site, IM client
Data formats: XML, CSV, RSS, JSON
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Help Desk and Problem Tracking
Currently: Mainframe-based help desk app
Investigating open source solutions: Redmine Bugzilla Trac eTicket, Eventum, Savane, OpenCSM
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Software Development and
Source Code Management
Originally: No standards
Development environment: Java6, servlets, Jetty Eclipse IDE
Source code management: Subversion Github Subversive (Eclipse plugin)
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Copyright Policies
Website: Creative Commons By-NC-ND Attribution, Noncommercial, No Derivative Works
Source Code: Dual-license BSD and GPLv3
Open source repository: open.nysenate.gov
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How you can help
Connect with open source community
Revolutionary opportunity to reinvent government
Products utilized by millions of New Yorkers
Rensselaer and NY Senate a perfect match!
Contact: Ken Zalewski, [email protected]
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