I did. At great length and in intricate detail. Also DMV — who went on to hire 
a company with a track record of failure/cost overruns, and lawsuits from 8 
other states— and to unemployment office. The only agency that listened to me 
was the state engineer and my students fixed a failed outsourcing project for 
tracking water rights management documentation. 

Davew

On Sat, Mar 13, 2021, at 12:25 PM, Tom Johnson wrote:
> Hay, Brother Dave, how about telling this to Santa Fe City Hall, the Santa Fe 
> County Clerk, county commissioners and even the Pet Licensing division of the 
> Sheriff's Office.  
> TJ
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> On Sat, Mar 13, 2021 at 11:05 AM 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
>> 
>> 
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