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DC CTO Vivek Kundra Named To Top Federal IT Job
DCTechCzar writes "The Obama administration plans to announce it has appointed Vivek Kundra, the District of Columbia's chief technology officer, to take the top information technology post in the federal government, according to a source. Kundra, who has deployed advanced applications to improve the performance of public services during his nearly two years as CTO for the District, will replace Karen Evans as administrator for e-government and information technology in the Office of Management and Budget. The position effectively serves as the federal government's chief information officer. The administration could announce Kundra's appointment as soon as Thursday."
I know he's a very accomplished person, but would like to know whether the new appointee is friendly to Open Source Software and Linux in particular. I am optimistic though because he's been "more open" as compared to the typical government official.
Now get us the facts about this man.
I prefer the "u" in honour as it seems to be missing these days.
You do realize that the United States Government wasn't set up as a pure democracy, right? It was purposefully structured with a layer of abstraction specifically to keep the ignorant masses from having a direct say. The founding fathers were well aware of what they were doing.
too bad this was subverted by direct election of senators and the rise to power of the opinion poll and focus group
"If still these truths be held to be
Self evident."
-Edna St. Vincent Millay
>or making DC a state
Two senators for 400k people? No thanks. Its bad enough places like Wyoming get two senators. Why should I have two senators split between 12 million people and they get two senators for so few? This leads to an unequal situation in the senate.
Just make it part of Virginia and call it a day, but its so poor and crime ridden, no one wants it.
Yeah...they vote. They vote for tweedle dee or tweedle dum. Give me a break. The fact that 90 percent are idiots are why we suffer under the two mafia system. They can't conceive of voting for anyone who is not part of one of the two parties. Thus they get a choice between the nut cases from the left or the nut cases from the right. Less and less moderates every day in government and more and more extremists.
Did you really think anyone was stupid enough to believe he went and plugged in all the cables by himself? and would you really want your CTO to spend his time doing that instead of organizing the project like he is supposed to be doing?
But congrats on posting the silliest complaint i have heard all week.