my name is david snyder, and i appeared before you a couple weeks ago. last week, a cab driver was good enough to come down here to raise once again the issue of the reporting of attacks on cab drivers and high-tech solutions. for purposes of identification, i am co-founder of the united taxicab workers, affiliated with the afl-cio, but i am not speaking officially on their behalf. as you probably know, there was an article that appeared in the examiner on wednesday, march 16, called cabbies talk about threats. i want to bring to your attention what i think is part of the problem. if i could get this up here a little bit. i don't know if this photograph and. it is not photographing. is there any way that we can get this to copy? ok, i will just read it to you. there is a section that deals with one of our concerns, and it is a quote by an officer. it says this million dollar data collection system does not track crime specifically involving cabbies. that is part of the problem. we need to ramp that up. i would suggest that perhaps there be some intergove

snyder and others to the golden gate bridge highway transportation district with terms ending january 31st, 2013. president chiu: this motion is approved. item 40. >> motion appointing supervisor david compost to the san francisco local agency formation commission, term ending february 4th, 2015. president chiu: without objection,su

snyder and others to the golden gate bridge highway transportation district with terms ending january 31st, 2013. president chiu: this motion is approved. item 40. >> motion appointing supervisor david compost to the san francisco local agency formation commission, term ending february 4th, 2015. president chiu: without objection, supervisor compos is excused. a roll call vote. >> [roll-call] there are 10 ayes. president chiu: this motion is approved. item 41. >> motion appointing supervisor eric mar to the california association of counties board of directors. president chiu: without objection, supervisor mar is excused. supervisor kim: i meant to put my name on earlier when i put my name on the supplement. as tears of -- as chair of rules committee, want to mention to our board members that three of our supervisors do not have any appointments to any of our regional committees or task force. i want are more senior members to keep that in mind. just in terms of looking at the number of committees you are and if maybe if you do not want to continue service in some, it might give opportunity for some less senior members to produce a bit on some of the commissions and regional task fo

snyder from iso. my question is for david and stephen on the implications of clout computing for open government. it is the big things that you seek, and it is a paradigm change. we talked about cloud computing dramatically lowering the cost of information technology, and news services and maybe more standards. that is the open government theme. but what are the implications? i think this is a very important technology that is going to completely change the possibilities for open government. one of the most important areas this would conflict of interest management, were agencies have always been able to create and control the records. suddenly at the point of creation, it can go directly to the national archives. and forget about this two-step process and it is taken out of the hands of the agencies, so avoiding all the high-value data sets. from the moment is created, it is going into the national archives are some other deposit of standards. it has profound implications of the whole notion of the public and on line and the next step. how can we do this if you think it is in a important technol

snyder hair dryer once. [ laughter ] oh yeah, put it back in the bag. sorry, bridget. >> you don't want to scratch it. >> jimmy: i don't want to besmirch the name of davidu so much. that's a very nice -- >> i know, right? >> jimmy: we're getting up there. it's worth more than $10. [ light laughter ] hey, how you doing frank? >> good, how are you? >> jimmy: are you from chicago? >> no, i'm actually from the central coast of california. >> jimmy: of course. [ laughter ] what are you wearing there? that's a nice -- are you a chicago cubs fan? >> yeah. i have family from chicago. >> jimmy: oh, really? >> yeah. >> jimmy: what are you giving us? something from california? >> no, actually something from chicago technically. when i get -- i've had this sweatshirt for about five years now. >> jimmy: how old are you? >> i'm 20. >> jimmy: yeah. >> so i wear this like -- [ laughter ] >> jimmy: one-fourth of his life, folks. >> so, this is a big deal. i wear this like every day. every picture i have is with me in this. and like, when i get nervous -- >> jimmy: like we don't know that? of course. >> this is its biggest debut is on your show. >> jimmy: cool. >> when i