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Open Source in Government⦿
California Technology Forum 2016Sacramento, CAAugust 11, 2016
Agenda
● Organization Overview○ Acquia○ OpenGov
● First, two stories…● The case for Open Source● Q&A
Acquia
Acquia and Drupal
Organizations using Drupal
OpenGov Executive Summary
INNOVATIONBuilding industry’s first smart, collaborative, comparative SaaS platform for the 21st
Century Government
VISIONTransforming the way the world analyzes, shares, compares, and allocates
public money
GOVERNMENT FOCUSExperienced team
comprised of visionaries and builders of
industry-transforming, multi-billion dollar
companies
MARKET LEADERSHIPBuilding the world’s
largest network of cities, counties, special districts,
school districts, and state/federal agencies
Building a Network for the 21st Century Government
48STATES
1100+GOVERNMENTS
$500B+EXPENDITURES ANALYZED
STATE OFOHIO
CITY OFMCKINNEY
CITY OFFT LAUDERDALE
MONTEREYSCHOOL DISTRICT
DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA
Out-Of-The-Box Applications
The OpenGov Platform
OPENGOV TRANSPARENCY™
Easy citizen engagement
OPENGOV DATA PLATFORM™CLOUD-BASED FINANCIAL & PERFORMANCE DATA REPOSITORY | OPEN DATA ARCHITECTURE | CENSUS DATA | NETWORK
OPENGOVINTELLIGENCE™
Management reporting, dashboards,
benchmarking, and financial projections
OPENGOV OPEN DATA™ SOLUTIONS
Developer platform for custom portals
First, two stories...
Story 1A Story about the Early Web
OVER $300 MILLION. :) AT ONE POINT, 50% OF THE CD’S PRODUCED WORLDWIDE HAD AN AOL LOGO ON IT.
Jan Brandt AOL Head of Marketing
HOW MUCH DID AOL SPEND?
and it did get a lot of Americans online! (27 million at its peak)
with BILLIONS of users and a Vibrant Ecosystem
Story 2A Story about
Software DevelopmentIn Government
Oct 1, 2013 - HealthCare.gov Launched and crashed
FROM$200M to build, $70M/yr to maintain
TO$4M to build, $4M/yr to maintain
Story behind how HealthCare.gov was fixedhttp://www.wired.com/2014/06/healthcare-gov-revamp
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Why stop at HealthCare.gov?https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-switch/wp/2014/08/11/white-house-launches-
u-s-digital-service-with-healthcare-gov-fixer-at-the-helm/
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The United States Digital Service is a startup at the White House that pairs the country’s top technology talent with the best public servants, to improve the usefulness and reliability of the country’s most important digital services.
Story take-aways
Story 1: The Story of the Early Web
● What if we never got the Open Web?
● Would companies like Google, Amazon, Salesforce, etc. been possible?
● The pervasive digital infrastructure the Modern Web is built on would not have been possible otherwise.
OPEN STANDARDS MATTERS
Story 2: The Story of Healthcare.gov
● “Waterfall”, siloed development doesn’t work
● Govt shouldn’t buy digital goods using the same process it uses to buy physical goods
● Government needs to adopt the same modern software development practices Silicon Valley uses
OPEN SOURCE MATTERS
Open Source in Government Successes
City of Boston
City of LA - State of Georgia
Data.gov
Alleghenney County, PA
The US Government now has an Open Source policy!
Why Open Standards/Open Source Matters
Why?
● It’s essential to how Silicon Valley builds modern software
● It allows developers to treat shared components as “infrastructure”
● “Standing on the shoulders of the crowd”
● It’s Agile● It drives down Cost● It’s enables an “Innovation Ecosystem”
Myths about Open Source:
● It’s not sustainable/profitable● I’ll need to have IT staff to maintain it● It increases my Total Cost of
Ownership● It’s not compatible with security
requirements● It’s not Enterprise-Ready● It’s not IT-Friendly● It cannot coexist with commercial,
proprietary software
August 11, 2016 Survey
Amazon Web Services Statshttp://thecloudmarket.com/
Global Website Surveyhttp://w3techs.com/
The Modern Web runs on Open Source!It’s actually riskier to run on proprietary tech
https://18f.gsa.gov/2016/08/08/facts-about-publishing-open-source-code-in-governmen
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FAQ about Open Source in Government
Questions?
THANK YOU! Joel NatividadDirector of Open Data@jqnatividad ⦿ opengov.com
Joseph KroegerVice President, State & Localjoe.kroger@acquia.com