Philip,

I'd love to bounce some ideas around if you're interested. I worked at a County Auditor's Office for 6+ years, was Director of Operations (Finance & Technology) at a public Charter School for 2, and had spent a few months at a Cal State University, all doing technical work tied to public operations (hardware, application support, and programming) . I work with Ruby/Rails nowadays. I'm very interested in sharing the detailed workflows of the public sector. I'm all for fleshing out the context of the public processes. I believe there's lots of potential telling compelling, coherent stories with the data, over time. Disclaimer: I now work for Granicus and this would be a wholly on my behalf, and not on the company's. On Mon, Mar 28, 2011 at 9:13 AM, CalWonk Editor editor@calwonk.com wrote: Hi Ryan, Thanks for expressing your interest. keep you updated as things more forward. On Sat, Mar 26, 2011 at 10:15 AM, Ryan Wold rwold@morequality.org wrote: Phil,

Please note my interest.

Ryan Wold (707) 673-6722

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Hello everyone,

I want to check how many folks in the COG group are California-based or are willing to work on California State OpenGov issues. We all know and hear about the great work being done in San Francisco, but less than 100 miles away in Sacramento, the state lags desperately behind in updating websites, making data available, or improving state services via the Web. They have made attempts before, such as transparency.ca.gov or data.ca.gov, which is fine and all. But then you get sites like leginfo.ca.gov (beware, it's horrible), which is supposed to be the portal for citizens to get access to legislative information. I have confirmed today that they are working on an update to leginfo.ca.gov however there is no publicly announced timeline for beta.

So what I'm getting at is I'd like to start mobilizing folks who are willing to work on turning the 8th largest economy in the world with the single largest state budget in the nation into an OpenGov and transparency leader.

Shoot me an e-mail at editor@calwonk.com or reply to this post if you're interested.

A little background on myself: Have spent the last 3 years as a lobbyists in Sacramento and was a former Capitol staffer. Born and raised Californian with an unhealthy, but wonkish, obsession with state governance.

Got lots of projects in mind and would like to meet people who have an interest in helping out.

Thanks,

-Phillip Ung