Comments on: 2010 Wish: A Non-Profit to Help Government Entities Share Code

By: Proprietary Software, Lions, and Bears in the Civic Commons Marketplace « GlobeHoppin

Fri, 03 Feb 2012 03:31:29 +0000

[...] accelerating the propagation of technology-driven civic innovation in the bargain. I’ve believed this for a while. In order to realize this goal, I believe that it’s critical that the Civic Commons [...]

By: Civic Commons Needs an Executive Director » Code for America

Civic Commons Needs an Executive Director » Code for America — Wed, 20 Oct 2010 15:16:41 +0000

[...] only thing bigger than the challenge of this job is the potential impact. Andrew Hoppin, whose blog post last January was part of the inspiration for Civic Commons, has thrown down the gauntlet, challenging efforts [...]

By: Announcing Civic Commons » Code for America

Announcing Civic Commons » Code for America — Wed, 08 Sep 2010 18:10:29 +0000

[...] some meetings of the like minds, including Andrew Hoppin of the New York State Senate, who had been dreaming of this kind of organization, and Vivek Kundra, the Federal CIO, who challenged us to think bigger — beyond just cities to [...]

By: Andrew Hoppin

Andrew Hoppin — Wed, 08 Sep 2010 16:53:50 +0000

Update: I’m thrilled to see that the realization of a lot of this vision is being formally unveiled today at the Gov 2.0 Summit in Washington DC:

“Hello world” — CivicCommons.com, 09/08/2010

http://www.gov2summit.com/gov2010/public/schedule/detail/15565

By: Gunnar Hellekson

Gunnar Hellekson — Sat, 22 May 2010 21:16:50 +0000

I think the work you’re talking about is already being done, it’s just being done by dozens of tiny organizations, both commercial and non-profit. Between Open Source for America (which I help run), Code for America, Open Planning, Sunlight, and countless problem-specific projects and companies, everyone’s starting to put things together and cooperate on common projects. It’s early days.

You’re right that in a perfect world, everyone’s effort would be perfectly coordinated. But by having a Big Daddy organization guiding and standardizing, I think we would lose a lot of the potential ingenuity in the gov’t development community. We don’t have that in the commercial world, and things tend to work out OK over the long term. Instead, I’d like to see thousands of tiny shops, all building sustainable businesses around supporting open source projects. The results would be the same, but we wouldn’t have to sacrifice any autonomy or innovation.

By: Andrew Hoppin

Andrew Hoppin — Tue, 27 Apr 2010 16:38:52 +0000

Yes absolutely Jay. No reason to wait on that. We publish our code at http://github.com/nysenatecio and http://drupal.org/project/nyss and have adopted dual BSD and GPLv3 license for our code.

By: Jay Nath

Jay Nath — Tue, 27 Apr 2010 16:33:55 +0000

Andrew,

Should we consider the value of just getting the code out there? Similar to open data, perhaps our initial goal is to get the code out of personal computers onto a single platform. It’s a public asset and should be put in the public domain. Re-use/sharing can only occur once this is achieved.