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Open Source in Government: Innovation in the Public Sector Government Adoption of Open Source

presented by Ben Berry, Chief Information Officerben.berry@odot.state.or.us

govSourcegovSource THE OREGON DEPARTMENTOF TRANSPORTATION

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Computing & Networking Infrastructure Consolidation (CNIC)

Computing & Networking Infrastructure Consolidation (CNIC)

Top 12 agencies Server farms & MFs Cost savings & SLAs Standardization

Target Results

Monitoring Tools OSS Research & Dev. Sets stage for

enterprise application consolidation

Open Source

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Government Adoption of Open SourceGovernment Adoption of Open Source

As a Community Source Development effort, what’s in it for Federal/State/County/& Local Governments?

Redistribution of Software

Technical Culture

Source Code

Redistribute SW modifications

Authors & Maintainers

Collaborative Virtual Teams

County Level Applications Sourcing

Free SW License License

Technology-Neutral

No Discrimination Against Fields of Endeavor

Derived WorksNo Discrimination of

Persons/Groups

Operating System

Community Source Teams – Are groups of individuals representing very different areas of functional and geographical expertise, working interdependently on a task and do not necessarily meet face-to-face.

Middleware

State Level Applications Sourcing

Federal L

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Applicatio

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Performance. High performance work as measured by faster, better responses to rapidly changing

environments and input.

Community Source TeamsCommunity Source Teams

Responsible for………

Team Connectedness. The joint use of real-time synchronous (blogs, vlogs, wikis, audio

conferencing, electronic white-boarding, application-sharing and instant messaging) and persisting asynchronous communication (living virtual team rooms with document repositories and electronic discussion boards) enables community source teams to coordinate and collaborate across space and time.

Brainstorming. Giving team members more time for reflection to produce quality ideas.

Sub-teams. Build trust and simulate intellectual growth by pairing diverse members into sub-teams

that perform highly interdependent tasks that build integrated products and services.

Trust. Building trust through a planned team communication strategy and frequent in-process, team-

tuning sessions (without necessarily ever meeting face-to-face).

Team Diversity. Recognizing diversity early in the team’s life cycle and leveraging it throughout the

collaborative process.

Intensive Team Leads. Communication-intensive leadership that check in on their members

frequently, mentor them, establish and communicate team norms and continuously monitor adherence to norms and adjust them as frequently as required.

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Government Adoption of Open SourceGovernment Adoption of Open SourceOpen Source in

Government. • Expect to see more and more

public-sector organizations around the world utilizing open source software!

• Benefits to be gained from increasing the use of OSS within the typical IT portfolio, includes industry tailored critical core mission Vertical Software that

Vertical SoftwareState Agency

Technology Maps

Agriculture | Consumer and Business Services

| Corrections | Education | Environmental Quality |

Fish and Wildlife | Geology and Mineral Industries

| Human Services | Land Conservation and Development

| Public Safety Standards and Training | Revenue | Transportation |

Veterans' Affairs |

Vertical SoftwareCounty Agency

Technology Maps

Board of County Commissioners

| Financial Services | Information Management | FREDS | Library | Sheriff | Labor Relations | Auditor|

Transportation & Land Use Planning

| Emergency Mgt. | Assessment & Taxation |

County Counsel | Risk Mgt. | Facilities | Animal Control |

District Attorney | Budget & Quality |

Employee Services | Affirmative Action | Public Defenders |

Juvenile & Adult Community Justice

| Juvenile Justice | Community & Family Services

| Aging Services|

Horizontal SoftwareUtility and Middleware

Software

Apache | BIND | Sendmail | BSD | Gnome | KDE | Gnu | Samba | Linux | Open Office |

MySQL | Perl | XFree86 |CPAN | PHP | Gimp |

1. Reduces total cost of ownership2. Provides higher stability3. Provides increased security4. Gives greater overall control

• Horizontal Software represents utility software used across industries and includes, messaging, e-mail, collaboration tools and generic business application toolsets shown below. 100+ Agencies

36 Counties

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Government Technology Mapping“Looking for OSS Opportunities”

Government Technology Mapping“Looking for OSS Opportunities”

Tax Collections

Tax Accounting

Tax Information

Licenses/Passports

Tax Title

Cartography

Divisions

Deeds

Commercial

Exemptions

Residential

Clerical Support

Personal Property

Sales Analysis

LAN Administration

User Support

Data Entry

Assessment&

Taxation

Administration

RecordsManagement

Recording

TechnicalSupport

TaxCollections/

Licenses

Board ofEquilization

& BORR

Valuation

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Assessment and Taxation Department

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Financial Services Division

Productivity/Re-engineering Client Applications

Imaging/ Workflow

Electronic Data Interchange

CASE Tools

Outsourcing/ Professional

Services

Systems Integration

Downsizing/M igration

GIS/ Mapping

Design/ Engineering

Database Management

Publication / Pre-press

MS Office/ Win95/E-Mail

Finance Management

Board Coord/Liaison

Finance Managers

Bond Council

Bond / Debt Managment

Investments

Cash Management

BIT (Business Income Tax) Admin

Excise Tax Admin

Payroll Processing

Deferred Comp.

Tax Obligations: Federal, State, etc.

Coordinated Annual Financial Statements

Reconciliation

Monthly Reporting

LAN / WAN ConnectionCheck Production

Obligations other than Payroll - County w ide

Internal Petty Cash - County w ide

1099 Reporting

Purchase Order Production

RFP / Bids / Contracts

PCRB (Public Contract Review Board)

Inventory: Vol. Purch, Receiving, Maint. (incl med.)

Surplus Property (Pick-up & Delivery)

P.O. Ordering

Disparity Study

Qualified Rehab. Fac.

MWBE

Contracts Mgmt:

Processing & Routing

Financial Services Division (DSS)Network

DevelopmentNetwork

Management

Security/Disaster Recovery

Database Query &

Client/ServerTraining/ Education

IRM Planning

Software Asset Mgt.

Internet Applications

Intranet Applications

Interactive Voice

ResponseMultimedia

Kiosks

= '97 - '98 Technology Initiative Information Systems Edu.,Training & Mgt. Public Access Applications

= Currently Exists= Function Alignment= Technology Enabler

FinancialServicesDivision

Admini-stration

Payroll

Treasury

Purchasing

Stores

Contracts

General Ledger

Accounts Payable

PC Back-up

PC Back-up

PC Back-up

PC Back-up

PC Back-up

PC Back-up

PC Back-up

PC Back-up

Electronic Funds Transfer

Electronic Funds CD-ROM for Paper Replacement

CD-ROM for Paper Replacement

Pol. & ProcElec FormsNewsletter

LGFS

LGFS

LGFS

LGFS

LGFS

MWBE Track & Mon Sys

DBS, TESS, IE

PC / Paradox DB PC / Paradox DBMake LAN

PC / Lotus

Decision Analyzer

Decision Analyzer

Decision Analyzer

Decision Analyzer

Decision Analyzer

MS Office Intermediate & Adv

MS Office Interm & Adv Trng

MS Office Intermediate & Adv

MS Office Intermediate & Adv

MS Office Intermediate & Adv

MS Office Intermediate & Adv

MS Office Intermediate & Adv

MS Office Intermediate & Adv

Review & Assessment of LGFS

LGFS Direct Report Distribution

LGFS Direct Report Distribution

Facilities Mgmt LAN: Purch., Stores, Contracts

PDX Bldg LAN for 14th floor

MICR Check Printing

MICR Check Printing

CD-ROM for Paper Replacement

CD-ROM for Paper

Remote entry by Field

Remote entry by Field

Remote entry by Field

Remote entry by Field

Home Page

Lotus to Excel M igrationCD-ROM for Paper Replacement

Pol. & ProcElec Forms

Pol. & ProcElec Forms

Pol. & ProcElec Forms

Pol. & ProcElec Forms

Pol. & ProcElec Forms

Pol. & ProcElec Forms

Pol. & ProcElec Forms

Business Partner:City of Portland

800 MHz Public Safety Radios

Americans with Disability Act - PC Access

Appeal Tracking

Archival data via State Database

Areas for Evacuation

Assessment and Taxation Records

Assessors, Legislative Liaison & Statutes

Audit Home Page (Library System)

Automated Records Management Database

Bar-coding

BOE & Mainframe Systems

Branch replication planned

Building Address Update System

Business Partner Internet Access

Cameras, Macintosh, Signal making equip.

Case Information System

Case Management

Cash Registers

CD-ROM Paper Replacement

Cellular Telephones Emergency Access

CIS – Customer Information System

City Metro Access

Computer Aided Design/Dev CADD Mapping & Design

Computer Based Training

Contracts Annotation

Cost/Benefit Analysis Software

County to City Info Sys. (SRMS to PPDS)

Data Archival & Storage Management

Database Development Software

DBS TESS

Decision Analyzer

Delphi

Desktop Publishing

Desktop Video Conferencing

Direct Book Check-out

DMV Records

Documentation Reference Tools

EDI (material orders) Fulfillment Information

- Open Source SW Opportunity-County Application Map

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Emergency Management

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Transportation and Land Use Planning

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Government OS Adoption PredictionsGovernment OS Adoption PredictionsSoftware Standardization. Applying software standardization, along with global collaborative development, you're going to have all the modular building blocks you need for any application you need, available for free.

Modular vs. Monolithic Applications. Modular infrastructure is increasingly complementing large monolithic applications, and, over time, the large monolithic applications are going to go away, and be replaced with modular, loosely coupled architecture in SOA runtime space.

Government Open Source Software. Yet to be seen in the USA, but a recent global wave of legislation is compelling government agencies, and in some cases government-owned companies, to use open-source or free software unless proprietary software is the only feasible option.

Service Oriented Architecture. SOA is driving this building-block, assemble-to-order approach and the ability to use Web-services to link legacy systems.

Changing Software Landscape. The software vendor landscape is going to change, as it did for hardware, moving from Compaq and IBM to more like Dell that assembles its laptops via 30-key global component suppliers!

Collaborative Software Share – Recent estimates indicate there are 55,000 public sector entities (Cities/Counties/States/Federal government). Much of the software that needs to be written has been, but we need to freely share it.

Simplify theComplexity

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govSourcegovSourceGovernment Adoption of Open Source

presented by Ben Berry, ODOT Chief Information Officer