My presentation on "Doing More With Less$$: Open-Source, Unconferences, and Colaboration" in New York State Government.

1. Doing More With Le$$:
Open-Source, Unconferences & Collaboration
in New York State Government
Andrew Hoppin
CIO, NY State Senate
@ahoppin
@nysenatecio

2. Better Laws, Government
Less $

3. Collapse Physical Geography w/ Gov20

4. Social Web Adoption
Collaborate Across Virtual Geographies
……
Federal
Missouri
California
Vermont
Indiana
NYSenate
Judiciary Executive
Assembly
Citizens
Civil Servants
Elected Officials Rochester
Businesses Troy
NYC
Interest Groups
http://flickr.com/photos/rocketqueen/1573565705/

5. Open-Source Software
for Collaboration & Cost Savings
“More and more we are seeing the federal government move towards open source
due to its increased security, reduced procurement times, large
scalability...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 it
perform as well as high-cost proprietary storage devices), open network (low-cost
hardware with open-source VoIP, routing, and switching software that make it
perform as well as high-cost proprietary network devices) and open-source
virtualization (xVM and Xen cloud computing without the cost of proprietary
virtualization and management software)
-Bill Vass, COO Sun Microsystems Federal, former CTO US Pentagon

6. 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 with
F/OSS)
•Leverage Tax Dollars (share our code to benefit
others)
•Security: see the source code, fix bugs yourself
•Supported: Red Hat, IBM, Sun, Acquia, Kitware, etc.

7. Recent Press
•CIO Magazine: “The Recession will lead CIO’s
to move to open source”
•eWeek: “10 things IT organizations will do
during the recession… #1 Move to Open
Source”
•Government Computer News: Defense
Appropriations language advocates a move to
Open Source”

8. 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 and
Extend
• e.g.: Drupal, MediaWiki, Wordpress, CiviCRM, GeoServer

9. NYSenate.gov
http://flickr.com/photos/rocketqueen/1573565705/

10. New CRM
http://flickr.com/photos/rocketqueen/1573565705/

11. NY Senate Mobile
http://flickr.com/photos/rocketqueen/1573565705/

12. Open Legislative Data

13. News 2.0

14. Releasing Our Code on GitHub
http://flickr.com/photos/rocketqueen/1573565705/

15. Open Standards, Formats, APIs for
Interoperability, Shared Services
• e.g.: XML, JSON, .ODF, .JPG, .CSV, RDF
• e.g.: SOAP, REST APIs

16. …Open APIs, Open Standards
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17. 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

18. Unconferences for Collaboration

19. CapitolCamp I, June ʻ09
http://flickr.com/photos/rocketqueen/1573565705/

20. Social Web Adoption
CapitolCamp II, August ʻ10
http://flickr.com/photos/rocketqueen/1573565705/

21. Social Web Adoption ʻ10
CapitolCamp II, August
http://flickr.com/photos/rocketqueen/1573565705/

22. Collaboration in NYS Adoption w/ Us
Social Web Tech Starts
……
Federal
Missouri
California
Vermont
Indiana
NYSenate
Judiciary Executive
Assembly
Citizens
Civil Servants
Elected Officials Rochester
Businesses Troy
NYC
Interest Groups
http://flickr.com/photos/rocketqueen/1573565705/

23. External Collaboration: NYCIOCouncil.org, @NYCIOCouncil
Social Web Adoption
http://flickr.com/photos/rocketqueen/1573565705/

24. Internal Collaboration: Groupsite or Google Group?
Social Web Adoption
?
http://flickr.com/photos/rocketqueen/1573565705/

25. Followup
Twitter.com/ahoppin
Twitter.com/NYSenateCIO
NYSenate.gov/department/cio
Hoppin@Senate.State.NY.US
Ciodesk@Senate.State.NY.US