OPen Govt
the trip to transparency

OPEN

Maybe not as open

We wanna
help!

what I want!

US
geeky

Them
businessy

when we
try to copy
them

what we want
to be

implementation

what
we can
actually
achieve
how to convince them

what we need
to find

Connection

EAR understanding

take away fear
fear makes people stupid - lizard brain and all

how to make open govt
safe for bureaucracies

we want to
find more
like her!
rollercoasters are safe actually safer than your car

safety notice that it is a child...

Teaching
• Weekend
Workshop
• best
practices
• examples

how to show them we are
listening...

SOFTWARE!

implementation

BORING

seriously boring...

Stop interpreting

let us do the interpreting

I want US
to do this!

For BIL
• An example...

http://budgetwiki.com

GO EDIt
it!

NOw!

Seriously dude
its a wiki

it can’t be
that scary

you have thumbs!

So what do we need?
• Data

data
• simple as a MYSQL dump
• Paragraph notation please
• just give it to us
• (and try not to change the
format too often ;-)

Paragraph Permalinks
• http://domain/folder/file/
paragraph/day/time
• (do we trust them?)

Versioning/ History
• http://domain/folder/file/
daytime#path to paragraph

permalinks
• and semantic web
• think about it...

diffs aka changes
• we could tag the diff
• cite and document them

legislation
• paragraph notation
• Scalable
• localizable

additional documentation
• like wikipedia style
• citations
• cross links
• PEer Review

Who are you?
• Free and open Social network
• Federation of Social networks
• DISO, OAUTH, OpenID, OpenSocial

Anon
• who wants to do this one?
• oooooh BRAD!

http://whitehouse.wikia.com

We need a better interface!
• ease of use
• findability
• tags
• Reputation

Participate
• http://whitehouse.wikia.com
• http://budgetwiki.com
• http://leagueoftechvoters.org

you have thumbs!

“Fantasy budget”

Credits:
•Grand Canyon
•http://www.flickr.com/photos/mikemcd/539914172/sizes/o/
•http://www.flickr.com/photos/bestrated1/29567927/sizes/o/
•http://www.flickr.com/photos/cobalt/274716465/sizes/l/
•Geeky T
•http://www.flickr.com/photos/amberlrhea/886172959/sizes/o/
•geeky girls
•http://www.flickr.com/photos/sigsegv/73381599/sizes/o/
•Empty Suit
•http://www.flickr.com/photos/pgoyette/168076182/sizes/l/
•Dude in Demin suit
•http://www.flickr.com/photos/practicalowl/472305230/sizes/l/
•iron man suit
•http://www.flickr.com/photos/sgt_spanky/2470700936/sizes/l/

•ori in a suit
•http://www.flickr.com/photos/ori/3165813156/sizes/l/
•mod suit
•http://www.flickr.com/photos/ventriloblog/85391988/
•paintball suit
•http://www.flickr.com/photos/phantomx/2888666374/
•debra bowen at shesgeeky
•http://www.flickr.com/photos/meli-lewis/3247119410/sizes/l/
•rollercoaster
•http://www.flickr.com/photos/martin_hartland/280131602/sizes/o/
•fear is the mind killer
•http://www.flickr.com/photos/misterben/501928475/sizes/l/
•teaching in china
•http://www.flickr.com/photos/99079793@N00/24786113/
•family
•http://www.flickr.com/photos/atelier_tee/2827121200/sizes/l/
•safety
•http://www.flickr.com/photos/benmcleod/255745283/sizes/l/

•Bob's Cartoon on TFB
http://www.flickr.com/photos/blakley/3237753037/
•Bat ears
http://www.flickr.com/photos/robparkin/301281046/sizes/o/
•Blue Connector
http://www.flickr.com/photos/jamesr-aus/2577326174/sizes/o/
•Connect 4
http://www.flickr.com/photos/vasta/167104294/sizes/l/
•Listening Ears
http://www.flickr.com/photos/niclindh/1389750548/sizes/l/
Wood Ear
http://www.flickr.com/photos/rachel_s/1592374860/sizes/o/

• http://www.openbudgetindex.org/
• http://octo.dc.gov/octo/site/default.asp
• http://www.appsfordemocracy.org/
• http://www.appsfordemocracy.org/dc-historic-
tours/
• http://subsidyscope.com/projects/bailout/tarp/
• http://www.simtours.net/grandcanyon.php

This Prezo is
listed under
http://www.slideshare.net/Silona

How to contact me?
Well google
“Silona”
Silona.com
wiki.silona.org
silona@gmail.com
(512) 750-9220