Or the nature of the firms that compete for government contracts, or the nature of software development.
Google classified this thread as spam. -- rec -- On Sat, Mar 13, 2021 at 1:19 PM Gary Schiltz <[email protected]> wrote: > I don't agree with your premise that someone on this list could build the > website over a weekend. I do agree with the wager, that the federal > government will hire some large contracting firm and spend millions of > dollars, and it will still suck. I have the feeling that that is simply the > nature of the beast that is government. > > On Sat, Mar 13, 2021 at 1:06 PM Prof David West <[email protected]> > wrote: > >> Biden promised a Federal Website to give citizens easy an accurate access >> to vaccination appointments. Fully operational May 1, date that all >> Americans wishing a vaccine/vaccination will be able to obtain one. >> >> Assume 50,000 vaccination sites, 50, 15-minute, time slots per day and, >> at that time, a maximum of 150 million clients. >> >> There are several people on this list who, I believe, could build this >> Website over the course of a weekend, including UE (user experience) >> elements like Google Maps for site locations, and install it on a cloud >> server for volume scaling/descaling. Allow a month to collect data - the >> only thing really problematic is a list of sites, addresses, and >> operational hours (to constrain the daily calendar slots). >> >> Total cost: < $25,000 ($500 hr - you folks deserve this pay rate - for >> 40-50 hours) >> >> Now the wager: I bet that the feds will contract with a major software >> development corporation for development. Contract will be in the range of 5 >> and 10 million dollars; there is a 50% chance the site will be late or >> deployed with partial functionality; there is a 20% chance that it will be >> as dramatic a failure upon debut as was the healthcare.gov site. >> >> Risk is two beverages of your/my choice — payable when next we can share >> a physical presence. >> >> davew >> >> >> >> - .... . -..-. . -. -.. -..-. .. ... -..-. .... . .-. . >> FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv >> Zoom Fridays 9:30a-12p Mtn GMT-6 bit.ly/virtualfriam >> un/subscribe http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com >> FRIAM-COMIC http://friam-comic.blogspot.com/ >> archives: http://friam.471366.n2.nabble.com/ >> > - .... . -..-. . -. -.. -..-. .. ... -..-. .... . .-. . > FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv > Zoom Fridays 9:30a-12p Mtn GMT-6 bit.ly/virtualfriam > un/subscribe http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com > FRIAM-COMIC http://friam-comic.blogspot.com/ > archives: http://friam.471366.n2.nabble.com/ >
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