[FRIAM] I am accepting wagers

[Prof David West]

I did. At great length and in intricate detail. Also DMV — who went on to hire a company with a track record of failure/cost overruns, and lawsuits from 8 other states— and to unemployment office. The only agency that listened to me was the state engineer and my students fixed a failed outsourcing project for tracking water rights management documentation. 

Davew

On Sat, Mar 13, 2021, at 12:25 PM, Tom Johnson wrote:
> Hay, Brother Dave, how about telling this to Santa Fe City Hall, the Santa Fe County Clerk, county commissioners and even the Pet Licensing division of the Sheriff's Office.  
> TJ
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> On Sat, Mar 13, 2021 at 11:05 AM Prof David West <profwest at 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.
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>> Assume 50,000 vaccination sites, 50, 15-minute, time slots per day and, at that time, a maximum of 150 million clients.
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>> 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).
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>> Total cost: < $25,000 ($500 hr - you folks deserve this pay rate - for 40-50 hours)
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>> 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.
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>> Risk is two beverages of your/my choice — payable when next we can share a physical presence.
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>> davew
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