I figure, either you can be part of the problem, or part of the solution. False dichotomy. It's so easy to just sit back and complain about the way things are

I figure, either you can be part of the problem, or part of the solution. False dichotomy. It's so easy to just sit back and complain about the way things are all the time, but it's much more interesting to actually try to change them. It may be more interesting to try, but it may not be any more productive. More specifically, the most significant problems I might sit back and complain about are ones that can't be solved with software[1], let alone custom software. The notion of targetting municipal government is suspect to me, as it reeks of the enterprise software model. I may be misinterpretting what they're trying to do, but, if not, it will be threatened by the same dangers, which means that 7 months isn't nearly enough. [1] ..or any technology by itself. I occasionally complain that programmers have a tendency to believe that all (technical) problems can be solved in software, but this goes well beyond that.