I agree that working out how to make large Government IT systems out of small pieces, with documented interoperability is excellent.
However, I'm not sure about the user interface with regard to petitions. It sounds like a solution trying to solve a problem that doesn't exist. If I petitioned the Prime Minister, that's who I petitioned. Do I really want a civil servant to go and move my petition somewhere else for me? Especially if different petitioning systems have different legal consequences, or different publicity consequences. Francis On Tue, Jan 27, 2009 at 02:33:06PM +0000, Tom Steinberg wrote: > Open Source back on the big P political agenda I see: > > http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/7853086.stm > > What interests me much more than the open source aspect is the cap on > project size, enforcing smaller pieces (if you can call £100m small) > which would then have to be interoperable to do all the stuff big > government IT projects have to do. > > This rings some bells. I've been thinking (but not writng) about this > a lot in relation to petitions recently. I think that we should set an > open standard for interoperability between public sector petitioning > sites, so that a petition sent to No10, that should in fact go to your > council can be sent over with the press of a button, even if the > petitioning systems are made by different vendors. This small pieces > loosely joined stuff might be frickin' obvious to you codery type, but > if we could just smuggle an example into government it could be great. > > best, > > Tom > > _______________________________________________ > Mailing list [email protected] > Archive, settings, or unsubscribe: > https://secure.mysociety.org/admin/lists/mailman/listinfo/developers-public > _______________________________________________ Mailing list [email protected] Archive, settings, or unsubscribe: https://secure.mysociety.org/admin/lists/mailman/listinfo/developers-public
