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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>