[Noisebridge-discuss] Open Source Software for Local Gov't, i'm a Rent Board Commissioner in Berkeley looking for help

[jim]

    my company, systemateka, focuses on open source software. 
i am interested in learning more about this project. informally 
i support the partimus effort to get open source software in 
sf bay area schools. some years ago i worked as the system 
administrator for the US Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit 
(based in san francisco, covering the western states), my 
primary responsibility was as dba for the docketing database. 

    without more information (such has the numbers of fields 
and records, bandwidth requirements, administrative roles, 
platform information such as type of host(s) and operating 
systems, and more), i don't think it's a good idea to throw 
out suggestions.

    i'm responding on list as a matter of transparency. my 
interest is genuine: however a solution is developed, i'd like 
to know of it. i will also reply off-list. if anyone on the 
list wants to know how my off-list correspondence proceeds, 
let me know and i'll share. 

jim 


On Tue, 2011-03-22 at 19:37 -0700, Asa Dodsworth wrote:
> The current Data Base Management system the Berkeley Rent Control
> Board uses is 20 years old.
> They are contracting for a new system, and I want them to choose open
> source. 
> They need a Database Management system, that 
>      1. will take a column of information and display it it as a
>         printable page.
>      2. have account access controls, so the program director can
>         manage access.
>      3. will share with other city departments the information as a
>         read only database
>      4. will integrate read only databases from other city departments
> I'm pretty sure there is off the shelf software for this purpose, but
> I don't know what it is,
>  can you help me make gov' open source?
> 
> Asa Dodsworth,
> Rent Board Commissioner
> asa.dodsworth at gmail.com
> 5104233440
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