John Perez, you have horrible timing

I will dig out the reference, but John (House Speaker) recently wrote a mea culpa about government inefficiency out here. He promised that the Secretary of State would finally get this system software problem solved. At the same time, I might add, Chiang, the controller just presided over a quarter billion dollar software boondogle. Total failures in tech boondogles by the state of California amount to about 2 billion dollars in total losses. Step aside, John Perez, I am going to fix your problem and create a booming software industry. I am proposing the open software government standards group. And, this group an handle all of your problems without to much ado. All we need is for bureaucrats starting the project work with this group, using a public blog. An inclusive group of software geeks, without to much trouble, would use a slashdot style message board to define an architecture, made up of open software components. Seriously, California should never have to pay more than a million for5 working software and full support from multiple vendors. Consider the market. Not only California government, but all state, local and moderate sized governments world wide, working from open architecture with a standards group active. It is a no miss market for the open software industry, California government participation would be a great boost to the state economy.