Governments are generally very bad at software, or any kind of highly technical project that the legislators really don't understand. I know several people in

Governments are generally very bad at software, or any kind of highly technical project that the legislators really don't understand. I know several people in tech who are volunteer firefighters. Why don't they form an open-source project? The software described in this article doesn't sound too complex; at a couple of points I was thinking "just use a spreadsheet."