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DC App Store
- Derrek 17y agoThe city actually did something right... awesome
- uuilly 17y agoIndeed. I lived there for 20 years and I'm blown away. Walking into their DMV is like going to a 3rd world country. I figured it would be years before they caught up on the digital front.
- brown9-2 17y agoThis makes me wish that American (local) governments worked in such a way that what DC did to support this infrastructure-wise could easily be applied to _every_ municipality. I'd love to see this type of stuff for my city, state, etc., etc...
- erlanger 17y agoYou might want to take a trip to the District and reassess that statement...the DC government is fairly delinquent.
- dkachaev 17y agoThat is why we trying to use a lot of open source tools or free stuff like GAE for our projects. This way we can easily share our projects with other municipalities. BTW: App Store code will be released tomorrow, it is Python/GAE so can be easily deployed for other cities.
- brown9-2 17y agoThis is pretty cool! I hope it gets the attention it deserves and that other towns/cities carry on the same work.
- alaithea 17y agoThis makes me happy to have just moved here. There seem to be a lot of civic-minded people taking initiative with technology. I spent some time in Portland, which is supposed to be uber-progressive, but we didn't have as much of this sort of thing even there.
- jacoblyles 17y agoNot to rain on your parade, but DC has lots of drawbacks too compared to a city like Portland. One of the most distressing things about DC is how little crime is segregated into neighborhoods. People get killed even in hip areas like Georgetown and Adams Morgan. Truly the egalitarian dream. There were bodies found in the Georgetown canal while I lived there.
- joubert 17y agoPeople getting killed ANYWHERE is distressing, surely.
- jacoblyles 17y agoSurely. But when moving from one city to another, it is distressing when it becomes something that you have to worry about.
- inklesspen 17y agoThis sounds disturbingly like the complaint that "crime should not happen in places where people like ME like to go". I doubt you intended that to be a racist or classist comment, but safety shouldn't be a luxury given only to people who can afford the nice parts of town.
- MaysonL 17y agoVivek Kundra, who was DC's CTO, and spearheaded these developments, is now the USA's CIO. With a little luck, he'll bring the same openness and user-orientation to the national government.
- dkachaev 17y agomshafrir Thanks for mentioning our project. We have a huge inflow of visitors from HN (even more than from Gov 2.0 Expo/Summit attendees). We are going to open source the entire code tomorrow (it is build on GAE, so it is easy to run for your own city/town). p.s. We just got over free bandwith quota : )