Re: New Open Government Platform code released

Hi Jeanne

a) Is there a dedicated group, list or contact for the dev cycle? (alpha, beta, RC, rel). Feel free to send details direct and I'll talk off list with a view to getting the .gov.au Drupal/open data community into the loop as an ongoing exercise.


b) erewhon.gov (I originally called it example.gov or something) was always a nice idea. But it is probably far easier for every gov to make use of handles/PIDs, RDF, standard domains etc to make a example.any.data.gov(.*) which acts as a community cloud with localisation. Anyway, while off topic a little, it would seem there exists a strong business case for an agreement to exist between W3, ICANN, IETF, the UN and associated groups such as ISO, OGC, EU, G20 etc, to establish a gTLD along the lines of .* (obviously it would need to be something other than the actual wildcard character for DNS reasons). This would allow for a variety of test beds and sandboxes to be used in cross org/state developments such as a true 'data.gov.*' for instance, or 'alpha.semweb.*', or even health.gov.* etc. (It also seems logical in a SemWeb and e-gov sense - simple triple lists etc of all relevant sites/services in an internationally accepted domain - eg hospital.gov.* should just redirect you to the closest Government's hospital and health directory, space.gov.* should take you to the closest space agency website etc.)

Pie in the sky maybe, but certainly there appears to be a need. And the timing is right with new gTLD applications being taken as of Jan. 2012. As it would be a high level agreement, it could be done at little to no cost as it is in the public interest (as opposed to the $185k being charged to business).

(example.data.gov for our needs here would always have been ideal, bar for the defacto position which saw the US take over .gov rather than using .gov.us as they really should under the standard.)

Interested in what others think. Is this something all of our standards communities/UN/international orgs should be looking to implement? If so, how do we propose/drive it, and what would be the next step? We are prob a little to far down the chain to really influence such a thing, but...

Cheers

Chris Beer
Australian .gov.au IT type (with all opinions my own of course)

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 "Holm, Jeanne M (1760)" <jeanne.m.holm@jpl.nasa.gov> wrote: 

Thanks for the feedback Gannon.  I really appreciate it.

As you know, this kind of feedback is critical to us being able to iterate with you and the broad community on getting this from Alpha to Beta.  We've gotten some other feedback as well and are working on many some fixes.  I'll check out erewhon.gov…  

Thanks!

--Jeanne

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Jeanne Holm
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U.S. General Services Administration
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From: Gannon Dick <gannon_dick@yahoo.com>
Reply-To: Gannon Dick <gannon_dick@yahoo.com>
Date: Fri, 9 Dec 2011 14:09:24 -0800
To: "chris@codex.net.au" <chris@codex.net.au>, Jeanne Holm <Jeanne.M.Holm@jpl.nasa.gov>
Subject: Re: New Open Government Platform code released

After 20hrs. I succeeded in getting a minimum Drupal-7.10 installation working on the loop-back of an old laptop.  I started from scratch, as it were, installing Linux (desktop), then Apache, etc..  Nonetheless,  little boy named Ed S. is getting coal in his stocking.  I'm still not sure what the symlink to the 'dgib_dms' directory is all about.  I think that directory is created on installation.  How did you come out Chris ?  If I could make a suggestion Jeanne ... a test deployment, refreshed overnight would be real handy.  May I suggest www.erewhon.gov, and you should list it as a deployment in the Community Directory as well.

--Gannon  

From: Chris Beer <chris@codex.net.au>
To: "Holm, Jeanne M (1760)" <jeanne.m.holm@jpl.nasa.gov> 
Cc: "public-egov-ig@w3.org" <public-egov-ig@w3.org> 
Sent: Thursday, December 8, 2011 12:58 AM
Subject: Re: New Open Government Platform code released

OMG OMG OMG OMG OMG!!!

"Something something Dark Side... something something something Data Management and Repository Software Requirements complete..."

Thankyou for letting us know! I know what I'm installing tonight...

Cheers

Chris