Center for Government Interoperability
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The Center is a nonprofit organization whose mission is to save governments from tough economic times and directly address budget deficits by creating a convenient environment to collectively purchase shared software to manage their operations.
Website: http://www.gov-ideas.com/
Members: 22
Latest Activity: Jan 13
Welcome to our discussion forum for government!
This site hosts discussions between government organizations and the Center for Government Interoperability (CFGIO).
Governments are cash strapped, have disintegrated data systems and have severe budget deficits. The Center for Government Interoperability, a nonprofit organization, is launching an innovation agenda designed to save governments from tough economic times and directly address budget deficits and computer system integration. The Center, CFGIO, centralizes software applications by bringing together vendors and government agencies into an eBay type marketplace where vendors compete to offer the best deal on the best integrated, open source software applications for a particular application, for example, asset management.
The Center is seeking government organizations and individuals to participate in discussions regarding how the Center can deliver low-cost, integrated software apps to government.
Types of volunteers we need: mayors, city managers, city, state and federal managers, CIOs, programmers, computer security, legal and contracts experts, CFOs, data modelers.
Your job: Join our strategic planning discussions to make government work.
Thanks,Alex Glaros
Center for Government Interoperability
500 Main Street
Winters, CA 95694
(530) 848-5149
http://www.gov-ideas.com/
Discussion Forum
programming question #1 from student programmers
Started by Alex Glaros Oct 23, 2011. 0 Replies 0 Awesomes
Can anyone answer this question? If yes, please add to this discussion. Thanks, Alex ------------------------------------ Hi Alex, I am from Professor Larry Bernstein's course at NJIT. My name is…Continue
Check out student-written app for us
Started by Alex Glaros Oct 4, 2011. 0 Replies 0 Awesomes
New Jersey Institute of Technology students are creating a prototype suggestion box app for government that the Center for Government Interoperability will make open source and free to all state and…Continue
CRUD and Integrated Development Environment
Started by Alex Glaros. Last reply by Ravi Kumar Sep 13, 2011. 1 Reply 1 Awesome
Regarding student programmers working on CFGIO projects, do you have any recommendations about:1. Standardizing CRUD2. IDEthanks,Alex GlarosContinue
Security guidelines discussion for student programmers
Started by Alex Glaros. Last reply by Chris Frenz Sep 9, 2011. 1 Reply 0 Awesomes
This thread pertains to New Jersey Institute of Technology student programmers working on projects located here: …Continue
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Comment by Alex Glaros on September 26, 2011 at 1:05am -
Hi Andrea,
Thanks for joining the group.
Not sure what you mean by competition issues. No one does what we do, that is, incentivize commercial vendors to build open source, integrated, multi-tenant government apps.
The public-facing home page maintains a general status: http://www.gov-ideas.com/. The goal is to get a rough prototype of the crowd-sourcing app going, hopefully via the student programmers whose semester has just started. Our vision is summarized in this flowchart at the page bottom: http://www.gov-ideas.com/citizen-suggestion-database.htm. Working on getting more vendors and gov. entities participating. You can see their solutions posted here: http://www.gov-ideas.com/marketplace.htm
We could use more volunteers and are looking for program managers for the 5 programs/solutions here: http://www.gov-ideas.com/. Discussion partners who are willing to make suggestions on our internal forum are welcome http://www.linkedin.com/groups?trk=hb_side_g&gid=3663582. GovLoop is our forum for government entities. If interested, please let me know. We’d love to have you.
Thanks!
Alex
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Comment by Brett Husbands on September 25, 2011 at 7:28pm
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Andrea - I share your view. I mentioned to Alex that GPL2.0 v AGPL3.0 was limiting as most open source projects are not that stringent and nobody wants to fork, and didn't hear back. The ideal of a civic stack is great, and reflected in the work of private sector companies, civic commons, non-profits, etc - I don't see that a civic stack requires that all code be licensed under these most copyleft kind of licences, where one cannot build for-profit extensions. (even if one's intent is to not do this, the licence for something like Drupal is clear enough, at the same time as being the best available choice for fed gov CMS)
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Comment by Andrea Schneider on September 25, 2011 at 2:42pm -
I'm curious to know how this idea/org is going? I read parts of your website and what you are trying to do makes sense, are you getting government agencies to try it out?
I agree with the premise of working on spending the dollar once, instead of over and over again.
Are their competition issues?
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