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open gov tracker robbie schingler | [email protected] | @schingler | nasa ames research center 2010 government web and new media conference – innovations showcase 27 april 2010 | washington, dc

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This is a 2 day, tinyhack developed during #snowmageddon 2010. After the US Government released 22/23 sites on Ideascale as part of the development of Open Government plans, this webpage was put together to track the activities across government.Given at 2010 Web and Social Media Conference organized by GSA.

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open gov tracker

robbie schingler | [email protected] | @schingler | nasa ames research center

2010 government web and new media conference – innovations showcase 27 april 2010 | washington, dc

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<motivation>

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1.f.2“Each Open Government Webpage shall incorporate a mechanism for the public to provide input on the agency’s Open Government Plan”

-- Open Government Directive

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GSA as a hero

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5 february 2010

The General Services Administration (GSA) offered an on-line dialog to the 24 CFO Act Agencies.

22 agencies accepted.

www.usa.gov/webcontent/open/engagementtool.shtml

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22 different sites

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6 february 2010

#snowmaggedon

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</motivation>

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<what we did>

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1 #snowmageddon2 developers2 half-days1 full-day1 flat webpage

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www.opengovtracker.com

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tracks all* gov’t ideas, votes, comments

* if using Ideascale

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top ideas across gov’t in each category

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highlighting agencies with most/least

ideas, votes, and comments

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stats of each agencytweet stats

go to forum and submit idea

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detailed stats of each agency

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all number stored every 5 minutes and available for

download

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</what we did>

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<how we did it>

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APIIdeascale has an API

Application Programming Interface

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We did this on our own time | Used our own server on a cloud-like service

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Used free and open source components:

• tornado = light-weight, open source, web development framework• mongodb = scalable, open source, document-oriented database• google chart api = restful api for chart generation• uservoice = free, web feedback forum to enhance the site• github = web-based hosting service for projects that use Git revision control system

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1 #snowmageddon2 developers2 half-days1 full-day1 flat webpage

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</how we did it>

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<lessons learned>

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APIApplication Programming

Interface

use services with APIsstructured data can be mashed up

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keep it new, fresh

cron-job automatically pulled in new infono-humans needed

government data on-line in real-time

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keep it simple

make it immediately usefulhad one function

one page

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make it fun, accessible

“something exciting is happening”“needs some love”

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develop quickly, iterate if useful

allow developers to work in sprintsincubate and sandbox hacks

use open source software (with active communities)see what works and iterate

listen to feedback

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</lessons learned>

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<other&all agencies>

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create a government sandbox for government programmers to publicly

alpha test new applications

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www.nasa.gov/open/plan/open-source-development.html

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NASA Nebula Could Computing Platformwww.nasa.gov/open/plan/nebula.html

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</other&all agencies>