 Okay, I'm going to transition from MC mode to presentation mode Thank you Again, my name is Jason hibits. I'm a project manager at Red Hat and I'm responsible for open source comm So you're hearing a lot of great stuff about that today And I'm going to talk to you about how do you can take some of this cool open source knowledge and bring it to your local government? so I found a very interesting way to To kind of capture three of my passions together my passion for open source my passion for my local community Which happens to be Raleigh, North Carolina and my passion for? Civic participation and that comes in the form of open government Anna and when people hear government I think they think of all the bad things they think Lobbying or they might just think of something like just they vote once a year or however that However, they take that but for me government is about civic participation and really when I say that I mean Getting citizens activated and getting them interested into government and making government work more for them Make it more of a two-way conversation with our elected officials and and really with the city staff that Supports all the different functions that cities do so if you remember After president Obama took office one of the first things he did was to enact the open government initiative And there's three core things that were part of that Transparency participation and collaboration and those should sound really familiar to us because we use them every day in open source So what I want to do today is kind of take you down what I call the path to the open source city So a lot of things that are happening locally in the city of Raleigh, and I want to share those some of those stories with you today And so before we get started I know we're at an open source conference, but just for the purposes of this presentation Most of us are familiar with open source and in the software context you know for me it's using free software or Mostly free software that the source code is available for you to modify and contribute back to But for me open source is more than just a software development model It's really just a way of life. And so I kind of bundle all these all this terminology Collaboration transparency meritocracy rapid prototyping into one term which I call the open source way and a lot of other folks use it so my story really began when I got an interview with the Raleigh mayor Charles Meeker and sat in his office and It did interview and we kind of had this discussion around what an open source city would look like So we shared our story with the world on open source comm Shortly after that I got involved with a movement called city camp city camp is an international Unconference series that brings open government to local municipalities and really is an activation for citizens who are interested in technology and so We've had an event two years in a row very successful. These are some of the volunteers that put it together and One of the best things that came out of city camp from last year was a project called triangle wiki Triangle wiki is a hyper local version of wiki pedia just for the research triangle park region in North Carolina It's created by The folks that live there for the people that live there and it runs on an open source platform called local wiki And really where this project took off was on February 25th. We held a triangle wiki day We had over 50 people show up at 9 o'clock on a Saturday morning Including two city counselors and our planning director and we created over a hundred new wiki pages added a ton of new images And really had a very successful kind of community building day. Well shortly after that The city of Raleigh pass an open government directive and what did it accomplish two things first it put open-source software on an equal playing field with its proprietary Friends or not friends and second it committed the city of Raleigh to create an open data portal Well, not only did they just commit to it They actually put their money where their mouth is and after they had made that announcement they allocated $50,000 towards The development of that portal They didn't stop there. They enacted this thing called my Raleigh subscriptions It's an email subscription program that allows citizens to opt-in to things that they are interested about from the city It's saved me a ton of email and it's been very successful But to carry on with an open data portal Raleigh recently announced The open Raleigh portion and this is basically where the open data portal will live It's where developers and citizens can go find the data It's where they can find different applications that interact with the data and also how they can get more involved with the community So city camp for me has been a catalyst and I don't have a time to talk about all these different things today But a lot of the people involved with city camp are involved with these other pieces and we're also advocates for all these other components So what is an open-source city? Several things, but for me. It's basically a hub I like to see the city Raleigh be attract more open-source cities Excuse me and more open-source companies whether that's people companies relocating or companies that are going to be starting up It's really more to about the culture supporting User groups and and supporting the the culture that we already have and I think I'm out of time So but really I wanted to share those stories with you today Hopefully to give you an idea of a way you can take open-source and apply it to government. So thanks for your time