[ckan-dev] [ckan-global-user-group] White House Open Data roundtable #4

Thu Jun 9 04:43:19 UTC 2016

Great stuff :) Will be good to see you again.

Rock on!

*STEVEN DE COSTA *|
*EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR*www.linkdigital.com.au

On 9 June 2016 at 10:57, Andrew Hoppin <andrew at nucivic.com> wrote:

> Thanks Steven,
>
>
> That echoes our experience significantly on the DKAN side of the house as
> well.  I'll see you at the White House next week, and would love to see us
> work together to promote ideas for how to improve the situation, so that
> open source can be competitive every time.
>
>
> Best,
>
> Andrew
>
>
> ------------------------------------------------------
>
> Andrew Hoppin
>
> President, NuCivic Open Data Solutions
>
> GovDelivery Inc.
>
> andrew.hoppin at govdelivery.com
>
> @getnucivic | @govdelivery
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> ckan-global-user-group at googlegroups.com> on behalf of Steven De Costa <
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> *Sent:* Wednesday, June 8, 2016 8:21 PM
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> *Subject:* [ckan-global-user-group] White House Open Data roundtable #4
>
> Hiya folks,
>
> I recently received an invitation to attend the 4th open data roundtable
> hosted by the White House on the subject of, *How can we leverage
> private-sector expertise and abilities?*
>
> I submitted details from the perspective of Link Digital in March so it
> was a bit of a shock to get the invite over the weekend. Despite the short
> notice I've managed to arrange things for travel next week. I hope to learn
> as much as I can from attendees while also sharing information from the
> work Link Digital has been doing here in Australia.
>
> As a company which provides establishment, hosting and support services
> around CKAN we've had many experiences over the last three years that are
> likely similar to others who work in this area. The standout point for us
> is the following:
>
> *Govt users of CKAN, which is certainly open source and free of license
> costs, still need to consider and budget for supporting the ongoing
> development of the software over the life of their contract terms.*
>
> I think that more experienced providers of CKAN services will try to make
> this point, or will try to quote services in a way that allows them to
> spend additional time contributing work upstream, but without the right
> procurement conditions it can be hard to competitively factor such costs
> into the work our clients request us to quote on. This is the point I'd
> like to most emphasize during the roundtable session next Wednesday.
>
> From the perspective of the CKAN Association steering group, which
> includes representatives from Link Digital, Viderum and OpenGov, all with
> private sector contracts, the experience appears to be fairly universal. I
> understand that Ashley Casovan from Data.CA, also in the steering group,
> has put a fair bit of thought and action into this point via the CKAN Govt
> Working Group. So, in general, its a problem that is being looked at by at
> least some Govt users.
>
> Although I'm primarily attending the roundtable to voice a perspective
> from Link Digital's viewpoint I'm very happy to take on any specific points
> others in the CKAN community would like to share. Please feel free to send
> me a direct email on anything you'd like to load into my head, or share
> more broadly in reply to the group :)
>
> Cheers,
> Steven
>
>
> *STEVEN DE COSTA *|
> *EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR *www.linkdigital.com.au
>
>
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