This is a 2 day, tinyhack developed during #snowmageddon 2010. After the US Government released 22/23 sites on Ideascale as part of the development of Open Government plans, this webpage was put together to track the activities across government. Given at 2010 Web and Social Media Conference organized by GSA.

1. open gov tracker robbie schingler | robbie.schingler@nasa.gov | @schingler | nasa ames research center 2010 government web and new media conference – innovations showcase 27 april 2010 | washington, dc

2. <motivation>

4. 1.f.2 “ Each Open Government Webpage shall incorporate a mechanism for the public to provide input on the agency’s Open Government Plan” -- Open Government Directive

5. GSA as a hero

6. 5 february 2010 The General Services Administration (GSA) offered an on-line dialog to the 24 CFO Act Agencies. 22 agencies accepted. www.usa.gov/webcontent/open/engagementtool.shtml

7. 22 different sites

8. 6 february 2010 #snowmaggedon

9. </motivation>

10. <what we did>

11. 1 #snowmageddon 2 developers 2 half-days 1 full-day 1 flat webpage

12. www.opengovtracker.com

13. tracks all* gov’t ideas, votes, comments * if using Ideascale

14. top ideas across gov’t in each category

15. highlighting agencies with most/least ideas, votes, and comments

16. stats of each agency tweet stats go to forum and submit idea

17. detailed stats of each agency

18. all number stored every 5 minutes and available for download

19. </what we did>

20. <how we did it>

21. API Ideascale has an API A pplication P rogramming I nterface

22. We did this on our own time | Used our own server on a cloud-like service

24. 1 #snowmageddon 2 developers 2 half-days 1 full-day 1 flat webpage

25. </how we did it>

26. <lessons learned>

27. API A pplication P rogramming I nterface use services with APIs structured data can be mashed up

28. keep it new, fresh cron-job automatically pulled in new info no-humans needed government data on-line in real-time

29. keep it simple make it immediately useful had one function one page

30. make it fun, accessible “ something exciting is happening” “ needs some love”

31. develop quickly, iterate if useful allow developers to work in sprints incubate and sandbox hacks use open source software (with active communities) see what works and iterate listen to feedback

32. </lessons learned>

33. <other&all agencies>

34. create a government sandbox for government programmers to publicly alpha test new applications

35. www.nasa.gov/open/plan/open-source-development.html

36. NASA Nebula Could Computing Platform www.nasa.gov/open/plan/nebula.html

37. </other&all agencies>