why no ruby in gov?
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1. Sarah goes to Washington
2. Ruby sighting
3. What I did @Smithsonian
4. Why not more Ruby?
1st round of five projects was launched in August 2012 with 18 inaugural Fellows.
2nd Round started in June 2013 with 43 fellows
Disaster ResponseMyUSARFP-EZ
Cyber-Physical SystemsOpen Data
MyDataInnovation Toolkit
21st Century Financial SystemsDevelopment Innovation Ventures
VA Modernization
Presidential Innovation FellowsRound 2 Projects
Disaster ResponseMyUSARFP-EZ
Cyber-Physical SystemsOpen Data
MyDataInnovation Toolkit
21st Century Financial SystemsDevelopment Innovation Ventures
VA Modernization
Presidential Innovation FellowsRound 2 Projects
http://MyUSA.goveasier access to government services
MyUSA is a joint initiative between the White House and the General Services Administration to reimagine how citizens interact with government.
A platform for building tools and services connecting citizens and businesses to government agencies.
What is MyUSA?
MyUSA Discovery
MyUSA Account
Stack
Phusion PassengerApacheMySQLRuby on Rails
Disaster ResponseMyUSARFP-EZ
Cyber-Physical SystemsOpen Data
MyDataInnovation Toolkit
21st Century Financial SystemsDevelopment Innovation Ventures
VA Modernization
Presidential Innovation FellowsRound 2 Projects
Disaster ResponseMyUSARFP-EZ
Cyber-Physical SystemsOpen Data
MyDataInnovation Toolkit
21st Century Financial SystemsDevelopment Innovation Ventures
VA Modernization
Presidential Innovation FellowsRound 2 Projects
19 museums
9 research centers
23 libraries
15 archives
My Office
the Castle American History
Natural History
My OfficeAir & Space
Hirshhorn
Freer Sackler
Archives of American Art
My Office National Archives
Dept of Education
White HouseGSA
Smithsonian Digital Collections
and members of the public to learn about.
researchers to study and discover,
curators to organize and document,
The Smithsonian has seriously amazing treasures for...
137 Millionspecimens, art works and other treasures...
with over...
136,000 cubic feetof archival material
Not Just Pictures of Things
Data
Digital Volunteers
5M plant specimens
3.7 Mwithout digital records
This is therecord(structured data)
Botany Workflow
EMUTranscription
Center
US Herbarium
3.7M Plants
Digital Surrogate
1000/wk
EMU
SI StaffVolunteer
WorkSI Staff SI StaffSI Staff
Validation
Improved Botany Workflow
EMUTranscription
Center
US Herbarium
3.7M Plants
Digital Surrogate
1000/wk
EMU
SI StaffVolunteer
WorkSoftware SI Staff
Validation
Software
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Writing code...can be challenging
Writing code... not the hard part
Most technical problems
are already solved.
Dudes. That was just marketing...
You can’t actually build a real blog in 5 minutes.
Over 1 million active Drupal sites
Ruby optimizes for developer happiness
What if...?
the developer could focus on unique aspects that require innovation
We don’t sustain frameworks...
...with a user experience.
Why?