IRC log of egov on 2009-06-03

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RRSAgent, make logs public
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Zakim, this will be EGOV
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ok, trackbot; I see T&S_EGOV()11:00AM scheduled to start in 3 minutes
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Meeting: eGovernment Interest Group Teleconference
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Date: 03 June 2009
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T&S_EGOV()11:00AM has now started
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+[CTIC]
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+ +1.202.731.aaaa
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zakim, [CTIC] is josema
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+josema; got it
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- +1.202.731.aaaa
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+ +1.202.731.aabb
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+ +0203334aacc
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zakim, aabbis kevin
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I don't understand 'aabbis kevin', josema
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zakim, aabb is kevin
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+kevin; got it
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zakim, aacc is john
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+john; got it
15:07:26 [josema]
zakim, who's here?
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On the phone I see josema, kevin, john
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On IRC I see RRSAgent, Zakim, josema, trackbot
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john has joined #egov
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scribe: joseam
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scribe: josema
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chair: kevin, john
15:16:19 [john]
lol!
15:18:09 [josema]
topic: "opengov dinner"
15:18:55 [josema]
kevin: chat with other government stakeholders on how things are evolving (Adobe, CDT, Sunlight...)
15:19:21 [josema]
s/chat/I had a chat
15:20:09 [josema]
...talk on opendata, discussions on business perspective
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...on what's the long term impact for industry
15:21:35 [josema]
...again on the "how" to move from the generic ideas to the practical stuff
15:22:33 [josema]
...reinforces the points we made on the paper, people read it, found it useful
15:23:11 [josema]
john: very interesting stuff, how to move from strategy to implemented systems
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kevin: also discussion about the dialogue, some points Beth made on the blog post recently
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[http://www.whitehouse.gov/blog/Wrap-Up-of-the-Open-Government-Brainstorming-Transparency/]
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john: one of things one need to do is to engineer processes in the system and get that kind of cultural change
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...and that's hard to do, means cultural change
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kevin: agree
15:28:00 [josema]
...creating this line of business is hard
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s/line/lines
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...sometimes people and power located at different agencies
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john: one of the things that interesting me about transparency is how to connect it to public policy outcomes
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...e.g. better spending of public money
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...one way of achieving transparency is to put up data on the Web
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...but then it's the question "so what?"
15:30:52 [josema]
...what's the next part of journey looks like?
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...and that's hard
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rrsagent, draf minutes
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I'm logging. I don't understand 'draf minutes', josema. Try /msg RRSAgent help
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rrsagent, draft minutes
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I have made the request to generate http://www.w3.org/2009/06/03-egov-minutes.html josema
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topic: open data
15:32:45 [josema]
...what datasets? what for? what's the expected final result?
15:32:56 [josema]
kevin: great point
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...challenge is that some people in charge are technologists
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...difficult form them to understand government business
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john: agree
15:33:52 [josema]
...coming from tech perspective myself
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...have seen people does not care
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...there are bigger challenges
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kevin: right, e.g. cloud computing, well, a buzzword
15:34:36 [josema]
...but what's in it for gov?
15:34:42 [josema]
...would like to hear more of that
15:35:06 [josema]
john: someone could say it reduces total cost of ownership and a number of other things
15:35:24 [josema]
...in terms of OGD reason is because improves some public policy outcomes
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...totally different type of thinking
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...not about lowering costs
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john: we tried to highlight some of this in the Note
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kevin: I'm glad we did not go very technical there
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topic: re-chartering
15:38:34 [josema]
kevin: working on a draft charter based on previous discussion with Comm and you
15:39:05 [josema]
...need to state goals clearly, e.g. need funding
15:39:45 [john]
its ok for me
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-josema
15:40:01 [john]
had trouble earlier in the call
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+josema
15:41:57 [josema]
...we might need something about protoyping
15:42:23 [josema]
...jose and I discussed a bit about this, and thought of 3 stages
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...no money: some smaller thing
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...money: a bigger one
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john: right, need a consistent plan
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s/need/we need
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[kevin, tim likely to meet next week]
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[some discussion on whether we should have 3 TFs: OGD, Interop, Web Design + Development]
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john: I like OGD and WDD, a bit worried about interop
15:48:52 [josema]
...interop is easy to say, difficult to define, *big* issue
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...lots of stuff in there
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josema: interop from different POVs
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...talked in the past much about front-end, big issue on its own
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...back-end *huge*
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kevin: we could focus on the things they have to deliver
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...e.g. the data.gov kind of thing
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john: I mostly care about OGD, as you know
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jose: me mostly
15:54:07 [josema]
...let's try a different approach, what would be the deliverables?
15:54:10 [john]
for me, ogd design patterns - likewise, why not web design patterns?
15:54:25 [josema]
I very much like that!
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kevin: not big deliverable, small docs, maybe kind of EricP W3C Tech Survey thing
15:57:46 [josema]
[maybe better two than three]
15:58:42 [john]
yes
15:58:59 [josema]
finally got it! :)
15:59:18 [josema]
[we could split interop into two, some of it goes to TF1, some to TF3, then no TF2]
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[kevin to draft charter with two TFs in mind]
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[ADJOURNED]
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-josema
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-kevin
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-john
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T&S_EGOV()11:00AM has ended
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Attendees were +1.202.731.aaaa, josema, +1.202.731.aabb, +0203334aacc, kevin, john
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zakim, list attendees
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sorry, josema, I don't know what conference this is
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rrsagent, draft minutes
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I have made the request to generate http://www.w3.org/2009/06/03-egov-minutes.html josema
16:35:36 [josema]
rrsagent, bye
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I see no action items