open source software, open everything in the ny senate

Open-Source Software,Open Everything inthe NY Senate

Andrew HoppinCIO, NY State Senate

Mission

The Office of the CIOʼs mission is to strategically leveragetechnology and information in order to:• TRANSPARENCY: create a moretransparent legislature,

•EFFICIENCY: enable Members to serveconstituents in a more effective and efficientmanner,

• PARTICIPATION: provide New Yorkers withthe means to take a more participatory role intheir State government,

Rationale

•Cost Savings (no license fees)

•Innovation (leverage of community-builtsoftware)

•Speed to Deployment (clone product a peerhas created)

•No Vendor Lock-In (hire anyone to work on it)

•Recruit Talent (top developers like to workwith F/OSS)

•Leverage Tax Dollars (share our code tobenefit others)

Used in NYSenate For

•Server Software (Linux, Apache)

•Databases (MySQL)

•Programming Languages (PHP, Java)

•Platforms / Applications:•Content Management: Drupal, WordPress

•Relationship Management: SugarCRM or CiviCRM

•Task Tracking: RedMine, TRAC, OpenAtrium

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NYSenate.gov (Drupal)


Data (WordPress)


CRM?


Task Tracking (RedMine)

News 2.0

Open Everything

•Software (e.g.: LAMP, Drupal)

•Data (e.g.: legislative data)

•Standards (e.g.: schema, taxonomy forlegislative data)

•Copyright (e.g.: Creative Commons)

•Community (e.g.: sharing viaunconferences, developer code sprints)


Open-Source (Code)


Open Data


Open Legislation (Feeds, API)


Open Standards


Open Content


Open Community (unconferences)

Followup

Twitter.com/ahoppinTwitter.com/NYSenateCIO

NYSenate.gov/department/[email protected]@Senate.State.NY.US

open source software, open everything in the ny senate

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