This presentation at CapitalCamp 2013 in Washington DC discusses the Drupal "OpenCivic" distribution, and it's role in supporting the burgeoning civic software ecosystem with an open platform to run app catalogs and hackathons.

1. Andrew Hoppin | @ahoppin
http://nuams.com
Creating a global
marketplace for civic
software

2. Falling Government
Budgets
Rising Government
Needs

3. Better
Government…
…Less $
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4. Civic Innovation

5. Civic Software Innovation

6. 311 Appapalooza...

7. 2013 Ecosystem: 100s of Cities, 1000s
of Apps, 100,000s of Data Sets...

8. Drupal4Gov Community Collaborates...

9. White House We The People

10. --> Petitions Distro on Drupal.org

11. White
Label
Theme+Pe00ons
Distro
=
Quick
&
Easy
for
Any
Government
to
have
“We
The
People”

12. “Distribu0ons”
are
Making
Drupal
the
“Default”
CMS
for
Governments
Worldwide

13. House
Senate
Judiciary Executive
City
County
Town
Federal
Indiana
Vermont
California
Missouri
……
Civil Servants
Elected Officials
Citizens
Businesses
Interest Groups
Environment
Transit
Health
DMV
Education
Labor
State
Tech
CEO
Council
Es/mates
$1
Trillion
saved
by
2020
through
streamlining,
sharing
*within*
Federal
government
alone
What
About
the
Rest?

14. 2012
Ecosystem:
100s of
Cities, 1000s
of Apps...
...But still,
most City
Agency
Projects Still
Look Like
This

15. EMERGING GROWTH
Open311 Transit?? Weather
MATURE
GPSGov CMS
Distributed innovation
API
API
API
government
industry
citizen
How Do We Innovate on Key Civic Platforms?

16. How Do We Foster Reuse?

17. For Software to be Shared,
People Have to Know It Exists

18. The Birth of Civic Commons
(or: “Governments That
Work Like The Web”)

19. App Marketplace:
Key to Re-Use of Civic Apps

22. World Bank Sponsored Reusable
“OpenCivic” Drupal “Distribution”

23. • Drupal
distribu0ons
(“distros”)
also
called
“installa0on
profiles.”
• Provide
website
features
and
func0ons
for
a
specific
type
of
site,
as
a
single
download.
• Make
it
possible
to
quickly
set
up
a
complex
website,
s0ll
fully
customizable
• Launch
your
own
Apps
Catalog
or
Hackathon
website
in
less
than
an
hour
Drupal Distributions

24. What is in the Apps Catalog distro?
Applications Organizations
Deployments

25. An “Application” is a working
piece of software that serves
a particular purpose.
App Description
Key features
Creator
Logo
Homepage
Source code URL
Demo URL
Rating
Supporting vendors
Screenshots
Video
Related applications
License
Release Notes
Taxonomies:
Application function
Civic sector
Tags (free tagging) 25

26. An “Organization” is a company,
government agency, NGO or team
that creates, supports or uses
applications.
Description
Logo
Organization type
Address
Telephone
Website
Members
Apps experience
Services
Taxonomies:
Civic sector
Tags (free tagging)
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27. A “Deployment” is the story of an
application being installed for a
specific organization and purpose.
• Application
• Organization that Deployed It
• Developers
• Narrative Details: What worked well with this
deployment? What didn’t?
• Website
• Location
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28. Integration With Hackathons

29. Hackathons <--> Apps Catalogs
How should content be synced/shared
between websites?

30. Can an Apps Catalog Improve the
Hackathon Business Model?
• At
the
end
of
the
hackathon,
how
do
the
best
ideas
get
funding
to
carry
them
forward?
• How
do
funders
determine
which
ideas
are
the
good
ones
worth
funding?
• Can
Apps
Catalogs
increase
the
market
for
open
source
solu0ons?
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31. Two, Three, Many Apps Catalogs?
Some
of
the
use
cases
that
people
have
discussed
with
us:
• Civic
Commons/Code
for
America
• New
York
City
• Topic-­‐specific
app
catalogs
• NGO
wants
to
catalog
so`ware
for
pro-­‐democracy
ac0vists
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32. Amsterdam
Barcelona
Berlin
Helsinki
Manchester
Rome

33. EuropeCommons.org

37. Distro Road Map
• Apps
Catalog
– Applica0ons
– Organiza0ons
– Deployments
– API
– Language
localiza0on
• Hackathon
– Problem
Statements
– Projects
– Teams
• Community
– Events
– Blog
– Wiki
• Open
Data
– Datasets
and
Resources
– Visualiza0on
• Apps
Contest
– Problem
Statements
– Datasets
– Submissions
– Prizes
• Civic
Sandboxes
– Try
out
an
actual
demo
• Investment
Network
– AngelList-­‐like
financing
to
turn
projects
into
full
apps
and
businesses37

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39. Andrew Hoppin | @ahoppin
andrew@nuams.com
http://nuams.com