Presentation about budgetwiki.com that I gave at http://2009.bilconference.com/ in Jan 2009

1. OPen Govt
the trip to transparency

2. OPEN

3. Maybe not as open

4. We wanna
help!

5. what I want!

6. US
geeky

7. Them
businessy

8. when we
try to copy
them

9. what we want
to be

10. implementation

11. what
we can
actually
achieve
how to convince them

12. what we need
to find

13. Connection

15. EAR understanding

17. take away fear
fear makes people stupid - lizard brain and all

18. how to make open govt
safe for bureaucracies

19. we want to
find more
like her!
rollercoasters are safe actually safer than your car

20. safety notice that it is a child...

21. Teaching
• Weekend
Workshop
• best
practices
• examples

22. how to show them we are
listening...

24. SOFTWARE!

25. implementation

26. BORING

27. seriously boring...

28. Stop interpreting

30. let us do the interpreting

33. I want US
to do this!

34. For BIL
• An example...

43. http://budgetwiki.com

44. GO EDIt
it!

45. NOw!

46. Seriously dude
its a wiki

47. it can’t be
that scary

48. you have thumbs!

49. So what do we need?
• Data

50. data
• simple as a MYSQL dump
• Paragraph notation please
• just give it to us
• (and try not to change the
format too often ;-)

51. Paragraph Permalinks
• http://domain/folder/file/
paragraph/day/time
• (do we trust them?)

52. Versioning/ History
• http://domain/folder/file/
daytime#path to paragraph

53. permalinks
• and semantic web
• think about it...

54. diffs aka changes
• we could tag the diff
• cite and document them

55. legislation
• paragraph notation
• Scalable
• localizable

56. additional documentation
• like wikipedia style
• citations
• cross links
• PEer Review

57. Who are you?
• Free and open Social network
• Federation of Social networks
• DISO, OAUTH, OpenID, OpenSocial

58. Anon
• who wants to do this one?
• oooooh BRAD!

59. http://whitehouse.wikia.com

60. We need a better interface!
• ease of use
• findability
• tags
• Reputation

61. Participate
• http://whitehouse.wikia.com
• http://budgetwiki.com
• http://leagueoftechvoters.org

62. you have thumbs!

63. “Fantasy budget”

64. Credits:
•Grand Canyon
•http://www.flickr.com/photos/mikemcd/539914172/sizes/o/
•http://www.flickr.com/photos/bestrated1/29567927/sizes/o/
•http://www.flickr.com/photos/cobalt/274716465/sizes/l/
•Geeky T
•http://www.flickr.com/photos/amberlrhea/886172959/sizes/o/
•geeky girls
•http://www.flickr.com/photos/sigsegv/73381599/sizes/o/
•Empty Suit
•http://www.flickr.com/photos/pgoyette/168076182/sizes/l/
•Dude in Demin suit
•http://www.flickr.com/photos/practicalowl/472305230/sizes/l/
•iron man suit
•http://www.flickr.com/photos/sgt_spanky/2470700936/sizes/l/

65. •ori in a suit
•http://www.flickr.com/photos/ori/3165813156/sizes/l/
•mod suit
•http://www.flickr.com/photos/ventriloblog/85391988/
•paintball suit
•http://www.flickr.com/photos/phantomx/2888666374/
•debra bowen at shesgeeky
•http://www.flickr.com/photos/meli-lewis/3247119410/sizes/l/
•rollercoaster
•http://www.flickr.com/photos/martin_hartland/280131602/sizes/o/
•fear is the mind killer
•http://www.flickr.com/photos/misterben/501928475/sizes/l/
•teaching in china
•http://www.flickr.com/photos/99079793@N00/24786113/
•family
•http://www.flickr.com/photos/atelier_tee/2827121200/sizes/l/
•safety
•http://www.flickr.com/photos/benmcleod/255745283/sizes/l/

66. •Bob's Cartoon on TFB
http://www.flickr.com/photos/blakley/3237753037/
•Bat ears
http://www.flickr.com/photos/robparkin/301281046/sizes/o/
•Blue Connector
http://www.flickr.com/photos/jamesr-aus/2577326174/sizes/o/
•Connect 4
http://www.flickr.com/photos/vasta/167104294/sizes/l/
•Listening Ears
http://www.flickr.com/photos/niclindh/1389750548/sizes/l/
Wood Ear
http://www.flickr.com/photos/rachel_s/1592374860/sizes/o/

67. • http://www.openbudgetindex.org/
• http://octo.dc.gov/octo/site/default.asp
• http://www.appsfordemocracy.org/
• http://www.appsfordemocracy.org/dc-historic-
tours/
• http://subsidyscope.com/projects/bailout/tarp/
• http://www.simtours.net/grandcanyon.php

68. This Prezo is
listed under
http://www.slideshare.net/Silona

69. How to contact me?
Well google
“Silona”
Silona.com
wiki.silona.org
silona@gmail.com
(512) 750-9220