open source training

How and Why to Bring Open Source to Your Agency

February 24, 2011

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Today’s Speakers

Steve Ressler

President and Founder

GovLoop

Andrew Hoppin

Former CIO NY State Senate

Partner, New Amsterdam Ideas

John Scott

Steering Committee Member

Open Source for America

Gunnar Hellekson

Chief Technology Strategist

Red Hat Public Sector Group

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Doing More With Le$$:Open-Source in New York State Government

Andrew HoppinNY State Senate CIO 1/09-1/11

@ahoppin

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Challenge at NYS Senate in 2009: Government 1.965, not Government 2.00x


News “Clips” ($1.5MM/year)


Constituent Relationship Management

(CRM)


Senate.State.NY.US


Better Laws, Government

Less $

Why An Open-Source CMS?

• Needed a true CMS– hundreds of content creators on staff

• Preference for Open-Source– avoid license fees– choice of consultants– ability to bring development in-house

• Comfort with Open-Source– range of mature platforms in use by large enterprise– availability of professional support

• Ability to Collaborate with Government Peers– Share code, roadmap, etc.

Why Drupal?

• Considered Joomla, Django, Drupal and Wordpress

• Selected Drupal based on:– widespread use in public sector (gov’t & NGOs)– module feature set for constituent use cases– local availability of PHP/MySQL talent– maturity of consultant and developer community – trajectory of the platform since 2004

Development Process

• Contracted outside consulting firm for– requirements gathering– design– coding– hosting

• *During* external development, hired– one in-house developer– one project manager – existing in-house staff for training & QA

• Deployed 3.5 months after project start– one programmer– one project manager – leveraged in-house staff for training– hundreds of bugs and features implemented since


NYSenate.gov


Microsites for Senators


Microsites for Committees

Open Administrative Data

Calendars


Committee Events


…Content to the Cloud


NYSenate.gov

Open Legislative Data

News 2.0


New CRM


NY Senate Mobile


Releasing Our Code on GitHub

Open-Source Distinctions

• Software Stack on which we build and host applications• Linux, Apache, MySQL, PHP, Java, Android, Xen, etc.

•Tools We Use to Support Building Applications:• Git / Subversion, Redmine / Trac / Bugzilla, Eclipse IDE, etc.

•New Applications We Build and Release as Open-Source:• e.g.: NYSenate Open Legislation, SAGE Geo Web Service

•Open-Source Platforms We Leverage, Customize and Extend• e.g.: Drupal, MediaWiki, Wordpress, CiviCRM, GeoServer


Open Standards, Formats, APIs for Interoperability, Shared Services

• e.g.: XML, JSON, .ODF, .JPG, .CSV, RDF

• e.g.: SOAP, REST APIs


…Open APIs, Open Standards

OPEN Data

Open-Source Software for Collaboration & Cost Savings

“More and more we are seeing the federal government move towards open source

due to its increased security, reduced procurement times, large scalability...reduced

cost to the taxpayers, and escape from vendor lock-in…

Open source will just continue to grow as the world moves to open storage (low-

cost hardware with open-source storage management software that makes it

perform as well as high-cost proprietary storage devices), open network (low-cost

hardware with open-source VoIP, routing, and switching software that make it

perform as well as high-cost proprietary network devices) and open-source

virtualization (xVM and Xen cloud computing without the cost of proprietary

virtualization and management software)

-Bill Vass, COO Sun Microsystems Federal, former CTO US Pentagon

Recent Press

•CIO Magazine: “The Recession will lead CIO’s

to move to open source”

•eWeek: “10 things IT organizations will do

during the recession… #1 Move to Open

Source”

•Government Computer News: Defense

Appropriations language advocates a move to

Open Source”


Social Web AdoptionSocialize It: CapitolCamp II, August ‘10

Rationale

•Cost Savings (no license fees)

•Innovation (leverage community-built software)

•Speed to Deployment (reduced procurement times,

clone product a peer has created, etc.)

•No Vendor Lock-In (hire anyone to work on it)

•Recruit Talent (top developers like to work with F/OSS)

•Leverage Tax Dollars (share our code to benefit

others)

•Security: see the source code, fix bugs yourself

•Supported: Red Hat, IBM, Sun, Acquia, Kitware, etc.


Social Web Adoption

NYSenate

Assembly

Judiciary Executive

Rochester

Troy

NYC

Federal

Indiana

Vermont

California

Missouri

……

Civil Servants

Elected Officials

Citizens

Businesses

Interest Groups

Collaborate Across Virtual Geographies

Followup

Twitter.com/ahoppin

Twitter.com/NYSenateCIO

NYSenate.gov/department/cio

[email protected]

[email protected]

mailto:[email protected]


How & Why to bring Open Source to Your Agency

John Scott, RadiantBlue Technologies, Inc.

[email protected]

[email protected]

@johnmscott

February 24, 2011



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Open Source:

Freedom (and Control)

Enjoy to Savings

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Software becomes a Commodity

Ref: Commodification of Industrial Software: A Case for Open Source, July/August 2009 IEEE Software

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Example Savings

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Source: OSDL, Stuart Cohen, GOSCON 2007


Gartner predicts that within 2010 25% of the overall software market will be Free Software-based, with roughly 12%

of it “internal” to companies and administrations that adopt Free Software. The remaining market, still substantial, is

based on several different business models, that monetize the software using different strategies. Gartner Group,

“Open source going mainstream,” 2006


Open Open Gov

DoD: Clarifying Guidance Regarding

Open Source Software16 October 2009


OSFA Reportcard


47

Military & Openness

Problem

• DoD „hostage‟ to legacy, proprietary

components

Time is a significant driver –

sometimes forced to „re-engineer‟

the solution created decades ago

• Interoperability issues: Services,

commands and systems

• Increasing complexity of code

• We develop code that isn‟t readily

accessible or reusable

• Software process model

• Development/maintenance costs

outweigh COTS costs

• Timely delivery of new solutions

• Keeping up with innovation/change

“The OODA loop for software deployment must decrease”

Opportunity• Agility

Faster development

Faster deployment: need to have

impact during fight

Better transition

• Decrease likelihood for vendor lock-in

• Potentially lower costs

• Greater interoperability

• Knowledge capture

• Communities around capabilities


www.Mil-OSS.org


Open Source Option

Open source software implementations creates options for the government:

• Don’t have to be locked into single technology vendor with forced license requirements (per seat, CPU, etc. )

• Open source can be a powerful negotiating point with vendors to decrease costs


Backup

Open Source Strategy for GovernmentsFreedom may not be free,

but it's totally worth it.

Gunnar HelleksonChief Technology Strategist, Red Hat US Public [email protected] · 202 507 9027 · @ghelleks

24 February 2011

Three PhasesUse.Participate.Create.

Red Hat's Packaging Problem

Participate.

Create.

http://www.blackducksoftware.com/oss/licenses

Open Source = Commercial SoftwareIt's special, but it's not that special.

In most cases, the existing procurement rules are fine:

It must fulfill your needs.

You need support.

You need an exit strategy.

Someone is in charge.

Open source must win in a fair fight.

The Support QuestionDon't assume proprietary advantages.

You will always have support when you need it.

If you report a bug, it will always be fixed promptly.

That company will always be in business.

They will never change their business model.

They will always support the product.

The original developer will always work here.

You will always have great documentation.

– Deb Bryant, OSU Open Source Lab

The Support QuestionBe aware of open source advantages.

You can always pay for support when you need it.

If you find a bug, it can be fixed.

You don't rely on one company.

You don't worry about new business models.

You don't need the original developer.

Open standards make integration easier.

The Support QuestionSelf-support?

Who will support unsupported software?

What risks are you willing to assume?

When will you require a support contract?

Who says yes?

http://www.blackducksoftware.com/oss/licenses

Review the Licenses.What terms are you willing to accept?

OMBhttp://www.cio.gov/documents/Technology-Neutrality.pdf

“...evaluation processes that promote procurement choices based on performance and value, and free of preconceived preferencesbased on how the teclmology is developed, licensed or distributed... This allows the Government to pursue the best strategy to meet its particular needs.”

“Technology Neutrailty Memo”

SFhttp://www.sfgov.org/site/coit_page.asp?id=115978

“The Software Evaluation Policy will require departments to consider open source alternatives, when available, on an equal basis to commercial software, as these may reduce cost and speed the time needed to bring software applications to production.”

Participate.

How Can I Participate?“Who's in charge here?”

Can staff participate on lists?

Can they use their work email?

Who can submit bug reports?

Who can submit feature requests?

What does an endorsement look like?

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Create.

How Can We Release Code?Pitching in.

Who decides what will be open source?

When does it make sense?

What license will you use?

What kind of review process is necessary?

Who's involved in the review?

Who's the maintainer?

Where do I track what's been opened?

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DODhttp://cio-nii.defense.gov/docs/OpenSourceInDoD.pdf

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Audience Q&A

Today’s Speakers

Steve Ressler

President and Founder

GovLoop

Andrew Hoppin

Former CIO NY State Senate

Partner, New Amsterdam Ideas

John Scott

Steering Committee Member

Open Source for America

Gunnar Hellekson

Chief Technology Strategist

Red Hat Public Sector Group

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Thank You!

To continue the discussion visit the

Open Source Software in Government Group on GovLoop at:

http://www.govloop.com/group/OSSinGov

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