Posted by barrett on April 3, 2011 at 11:27pm
Bitter irony that so soon after the announcement that the source code of IT Dashboard is being made available, news is reporting (http://www.federalnewsradio.com/?nid=35&sid=2327798) the imminent shutdown of that site and other "open gov" sites as a result of the budget debacle.
...funding will begin to run out on April 20 for public sites IT Dashboard, Data.gov and paymentaccuracy.gov. The source said OMB also is planning on shutting down internal government sites, including Performance.gov, FedSpace and many of the efforts related the FEDRamp cloud computing cybersecurity effort.
The official said two other sites, USASpending.gov and Apps.gov/now, will run through July 30 but go dark soon after.
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Like rain on your wedding day
Indeed, that's pretty ironic. It'd be great if they made the source code to data.gov available so that someone else can run it - that would have been just one win from using an open source platform for data.gov from the start. It also shouldn't cost millions per year to run and manage even if we're talking about terabytes of data. If there's any more of a clear explanation for the need for this project, it's this!
Brian