I don't agree with your premise that someone on this list could build the website over a weekend. I do agree with the wager, that the federal government will hire some large contracting firm and spend millions of dollars, and it will still suck. I have the feeling that that is simply the nature of the beast that is government.
On Sat, Mar 13, 2021 at 1:06 PM Prof David West <profw...@fastmail.fm> wrote: > Biden promised a Federal Website to give citizens easy an accurate access > to vaccination appointments. Fully operational May 1, date that all > Americans wishing a vaccine/vaccination will be able to obtain one. > > Assume 50,000 vaccination sites, 50, 15-minute, time slots per day and, at > that time, a maximum of 150 million clients. > > There are several people on this list who, I believe, could build this > Website over the course of a weekend, including UE (user experience) > elements like Google Maps for site locations, and install it on a cloud > server for volume scaling/descaling. Allow a month to collect data - the > only thing really problematic is a list of sites, addresses, and > operational hours (to constrain the daily calendar slots). > > Total cost: < $25,000 ($500 hr - you folks deserve this pay rate - for > 40-50 hours) > > Now the wager: I bet that the feds will contract with a major software > development corporation for development. Contract will be in the range of 5 > and 10 million dollars; there is a 50% chance the site will be late or > deployed with partial functionality; there is a 20% chance that it will be > as dramatic a failure upon debut as was the healthcare.gov site. > > Risk is two beverages of your/my choice — payable when next we can share a > physical presence. > > davew > > > > - .... . -..-. . -. -.. -..-. .. ... -..-. .... . .-. . > FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv > Zoom Fridays 9:30a-12p Mtn GMT-6 bit.ly/virtualfriam > un/subscribe http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com > FRIAM-COMIC http://friam-comic.blogspot.com/ > archives: http://friam.471366.n2.nabble.com/ >
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