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