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
http://flickr.com/photos/rocketqueen/1573565705/
NYSenate.gov (Drupal)
http://flickr.com/photos/rocketqueen/1573565705/
Data (WordPress)
http://flickr.com/photos/rocketqueen/1573565705/
CRM?
http://flickr.com/photos/rocketqueen/1573565705/
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)
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Open-Source (Code)
http://flickr.com/photos/rocketqueen/1573565705/
Open Data
http://flickr.com/photos/rocketqueen/1573565705/
Open Legislation (Feeds, API)
http://flickr.com/photos/rocketqueen/1573565705/
Open Standards
http://flickr.com/photos/rocketqueen/1573565705/
Open Content
http://flickr.com/photos/rocketqueen/1573565705/
Open Community (unconferences)
Followup
Twitter.com/ahoppinTwitter.com/NYSenateCIO
NYSenate.gov/department/[email protected]@Senate.State.NY.US