Upgrade to Pro
— share decks privately, control downloads, hide ads and more …
Speaker Deck
Features
Speaker Deck
PRO
Sign in
Sign up for free
Search
Search
Software development as civic service
Search
Ben Balter
October 23, 2014
Technology
3
310
Software development as civic service
Why the government doesn’t use open source
(and why we need your help to change that)
Ben Balter
October 23, 2014
Tweet
Share
More Decks by Ben Balter
See All by Ben Balter
A community of communities: Empowering maintainers to grow communities around their code
benbalter
1
1.1k
Fostering a culture of collaboration
benbalter
0
180
Growing open source communities on GitHub around your WordPress plugin or theme
benbalter
1
210
It takes a digital village
benbalter
1
360
Open source workflows in highly regulated environments
benbalter
0
73
Optimize for Developer Happiness
benbalter
0
260
The technology is the easy part
benbalter
2
250
How to foster an open source culture inside Government
benbalter
3
2.2k
Open source inspired workflows for open (and closed) geospatial data
benbalter
0
130
Other Decks in Technology
See All in Technology
AWSサービスメニュー開発をしていてAWSを好きだ!と感じた瞬間
toru_kubota
0
130
Classmethod Odyssey 登壇資料
yamahiro
0
390
開発生産性をむしろ向上させる セキュリティパートナーの作り方 / Dev Productivity Con 2024
flatt_security
0
360
たくさん本を読んだけど 1年後には綺麗サッパリ!を乗り越えて 学習の鬼になるぞ👹
yum3
0
160
ACRiルーム最新情報とAMD GPUサーバーのご紹介
anjn
0
150
Git 研修 Basic【MIXI 24新卒技術研修】
mixi_engineers
PRO
0
310
[2024最新版]AWS Control Towerを使ったセキュアなマルチアカウント環境の作り方
hiashisan
0
270
地理情報とAPIのトレンド
nagix
0
160
【基調講演】変える、今ここから ― IoTとAIで紡ぐ未来
soracom
PRO
0
320
[I/O Extended Android 2024] What`s new in Android 2024
kyeongwan
0
220
ゆめみのアクセシビリティの現在地と今後
ryokatsuse
3
290
楽しくGoを学び合う、LayerXの勉強会文化 / LayerX's study culture of having fun and learning Go together
ar_tama
2
350
Featured
See All Featured
ParisWeb 2013: Learning to Love: Crash Course in Emotional UX Design
dotmariusz
105
6.8k
10 Git Anti Patterns You Should be Aware of
lemiorhan
652
58k
Navigating Team Friction
lara
181
13k
Art, The Web, and Tiny UX
lynnandtonic
291
20k
The Language of Interfaces
destraynor
151
23k
How GitHub Uses GitHub to Build GitHub
holman
471
290k
Producing Creativity
orderedlist
PRO
340
39k
It's Worth the Effort
3n
181
27k
Building Your Own Lightsaber
phodgson
101
5.9k
JavaScript: Past, Present, and Future - NDC Porto 2020
reverentgeek
44
4.7k
CoffeeScript is Beautiful & I Never Want to Write Plain JavaScript Again
sstephenson
155
14k
Ruby is Unlike a Banana
tanoku
96
10k
Transcript
! Software development as civic service Why the government doesn’t
use open source (and why we need your help to change that) Ben Balter government.github.com
[email protected]
! Where we are How we got there Why we
shouldn’t be there What you can do to help get us out
! Where we are (everything you don’t want to know
about how government works)
! People | Process | Product
! People
The way we approach technology
The way (some) agencies approach technology
Agency workflow Policy Executive Program manager COTR CO OGC Project
Manager Developers Designers Compliance Sales (subcontractors) CISO SAOP 508 Government Contractor
! What’s missing?
Open Source workflow User need Developer Designer UX Ship
! Process
Open Source tools Version Control Git Project Management GitHub, Pivotal
Tracker, etc. Methodology Lean/Agile Deliverable Repository
Government tools Version Control Email Project Management Email Methodology Just
get it done Deliverable CD-ROM (in triplicate)
None
! Product
Open source technologies OS Linux Server Apache Database MySQL Language
PHP Framework WordPress/Drupal
Government technologies OS Windows Server IIS Database MSSQL Language ASP.net
Framework Umbraco
“Enterprise-grade solutions”
! Less technical expertise Less user focus Less tooling
! How we got there (a.k.a why doesn’t the government
use open source)
! Platform | Publishing | Procurement
! Using open source platforms
F.U.D
Government-specific requirements
Dedicated Sales Teams
Reinventing the wheel
! Publishing open source code
Workflow
Risk-averse culture
Command and Control culture
Transparency as a Liability
! Procuring open source resources
None
None
None
! “Why change now? It’s worked for three decades!”
! Closed source platform Uphill battle to publish Procurement by
habit
! Why we shouldn’t be there (or what government can
learn from open source)
! Source | Data | Government
! Open source (code)
None
None
None
None
None
None
! Open Data
None
None
None
! Open Government
None
None
None
! These are the exception not the rule. (for now)
None
None
None
! Take open source workflows Apply them to code, data,
law
! What you can do to help (unless, of course,
you hate freedom)
None
! People | Process | Product
! Product
Open source hobbyists
Open source suits
! Process
Trolls Open source
Open source welcome
Open source hand holding
! People
Open source Education
Closed source as a political liability
! Serious products Low-risk processes People who get it
Where we are
How we got there
Why we don’t want to be there
What you can do to help
What you can do to help
What you can do to help
! Software development as civic service Why the government doesn’t
use open source (and why we need your help to change that) Ben Balter government.github.com
[email protected]