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Doing More With Le$$:Open-Source, Unconferences & Collaboration

in New York State Government

Andrew HoppinCIO, NY State Senate

@ahoppin@nysenatecio

Better Laws, Government

Less $

Collapse Physical Geography w/ Gov20

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Social Web Adoption

NYSenate

AssemblyJudiciary Executive

RochesterTroyNYC

Federal

IndianaVermont

CaliforniaMissouri

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Civil Servants

Elected Officials

Citizens

Businesses

Interest Groups

Collaborate Across Virtual Geographies

Open-Source Softwarefor Collaboration & Cost Savings

“More and more we are seeing the federal government move towards open sourcedue to its increased security, reduced procurement times, largescalability...reduced cost to the taxpayers, and escape from vendor lock-in…

Open source will just continue to grow as the world moves to open storage (low-cost hardware with open-source storage management software that makes itperform as well as high-cost proprietary storage devices), open network (low-costhardware with open-source VoIP, routing, and switching software that make itperform as well as high-cost proprietary network devices) and open-sourcevirtualization (xVM and Xen cloud computing without the cost of proprietaryvirtualization and management software)

-Bill Vass, COO Sun Microsystems Federal, former CTO US Pentagon

Rationale•Cost Savings (no license fees)

•Innovation (leverage community-built software)

•Speed to Deployment (reduced procurement times,clone product a peer has created, etc.)

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

•Recruit Talent (top developers like to work withF/OSS)

•Leverage Tax Dollars (share our code to benefitothers)

•Security: see the source code, fix bugs yourself

•Supported: Red Hat, IBM, Sun, Acquia, Kitware, etc.

Recent Press

•CIO Magazine: “The Recession will lead CIO’sto move to open source”

•eWeek: “10 things IT organizations will doduring the recession… #1 Move to OpenSource”

•Government Computer News: DefenseAppropriations language advocates a move toOpen Source”

Open-Source Distinctions• Software Stack on which we build and host applications

• Linux, Apache, MySQL, PHP, Java, Android, Xen, etc.

•Tools We Use to Support Building Applications:• Git / Subversion, Redmine / Trac / Bugzilla, Eclipse IDE,

etc.

•New Applications We Build and Release as Open-Source:• e.g.: NYSenate Open Legislation, SAGE Geo Web Service

•Open-Source Platforms We Leverage, Customize andExtend

• e.g.: Drupal, MediaWiki, Wordpress, CiviCRM, GeoServer

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NYSenate.gov

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New CRM

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NY Senate Mobile

Open Legislative Data

News 2.0

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Releasing Our Code on GitHub

Open Standards, Formats, APIs forInteroperability, Shared Services• e.g.: XML, JSON, .ODF, .JPG, .CSV, RDF

• e.g.: SOAP, REST APIs

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…Open APIs, Open Standards

Open-Source Resources•Organizations: 

• http://opensource.org• http://opensourceforamerica.com• http://codeforamerica.org• http://softwarefreedom.com

•Specific Software Projects:• e.g.:http://drupal.org• See http://sourceforge.org, http://github.com

•Communities / Events / Training:• http://goscon.org• http://groups.drupal.org/hudson-valley-ny• http://oreilly.com

Unconferences for Collaboration

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CapitolCamp I, June ʻ09

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Social Web AdoptionCapitolCamp II, August ʻ10

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Social Web AdoptionCapitolCamp II, August ʻ10

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Social Web Adoption

NYSenate

AssemblyJudiciary Executive

RochesterTroyNYC

Federal

IndianaVermont

CaliforniaMissouri

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Civil Servants

Elected Officials

Citizens

Businesses

Interest Groups

Collaboration in NYS Tech Starts w/ Us

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Social Web AdoptionExternal Collaboration: NYCIOCouncil.org, @NYCIOCouncil

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Social Web Adoption

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Internal Collaboration: Groupsite or Google Group?

Followup

Twitter.com/ahoppinTwitter.com/NYSenateCIO

NYSenate.gov/department/cioHoppin@Senate.State.NY.USCiodesk@Senate.State.NY.US