Kevin Curry

Alfresco is better.

Hi Jennifer, you should come to this event next Thursday:

http://www.eventbrite.com/event/3427723413/es2?srnk=1

The purpose of the meeting is to connect Arlington County and other local govs & community organizations in Northern Virginia with the experts in this area.

To answer your questions, you could ask See Click Fix, City Sourced, and…[Read more]

Raleigh’s: http://citycampral.org/get-involved/citycamp-raleigh-contest-official-rules-2011/
Also, Dom’s reply on the CityCamp forum:
http://forums.e-democracy.org/groups/citycamp-team/messages/topic/wSKk8BmwntMKc00hA7Xyh

Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) technologies like Heroku, PHPFog, Standing Cloud and others dramatically lower the costs of systems administration.

Actually, +1 to all of this.

Logan, these are helpful answers. The basis behind a mandatory cooperative purchasing agreement seems full of common sense. It’s a “write once, use many” constructive outcome. As you hint, though, it’s not just awareness, but willingness. Purchasers find reasons not to use contract vehicles that are available to them. It might be some other rule…[Read more]

Great question Ron. I’d like to see some responses here.

+1 OMB 25 Point IT Reform Plan. It’s flawed but net gain.

Aaahhh, yes. Now I understand. At one point Joint Forces Command had several thousand separate licenses for the same product, all with separate maintenance contracts.

Steve, I agree 100% with market research. The first instinct anyone should have to look for what has worked where. Too often government thinks it is looking for something new, when it isn’t, or has a new problem, when it doesn’t. I think we can do a lot to help with market research, too, as a community of practice. Better “apps” stores will help.…[Read more]

Angel. I’m intrigued. Will you please elaborate on what you mean by consolidation of procurement actions? I have a sense, but it could be wrong.