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  • Open Source Insights for Public and Private Institutions

    Deb Bryant & Associates provides high value consulting services to individuals and organizations. Based on insights from years of work with technology start ups, policy makers, government operations, and deep open source community involvement, we help organizations plan, pitch and forward their initiatives with superior information.
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Last Decade’s Growth of Open Source

Found this info-graphic interesting.  An English translation of the narrative can be found at this link.  (See full post for full image courtesy of infografik.)     10 Years of Open Source infographic by infografik.

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Proceedings: Open Cybersecurity Summit 2012

Last fall the Bryant Group led the production of the first annual Open Cybersecurity Summit. The event was underwritten by the Department of Homeland Security Science and Technology Division (DHS S&T), Cybersecurity Division and delivered by Georgia Tech Research Institute (GTRI), the Homeland Open Security Technology program (HOST). The HOST program was created to explore, … Read more

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Open Source and Economic Development

From an invited presentation at the International Free Software Forum, a snapshot of a number of international economic development initiatives based on open source software, the full post includes a an embedded slide share presentation.

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Get on the (Hacker) Bus.

I recently returned from the Thirteenth International Forum for Free Software (FISL) in Porto Alegre Brazil.  With an attendance of about 8,000 this year, it is the largest tech conference in South America and likely the largest free/open source conference in the world.  I was fortunate to have attended representing OSI and presented a keynote … Read more

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Up Next: Open Source Initiative Board of Directors

I’m headed to Chicago.  No, not a delegate to the NATO Summit, but expect to share the same traffic jams. This weekend thirteen Open Source Initiative (OSI) directors meet face-to-face in Chicago.  Three directors are recently elected, myself included, and a full agenda awaits. If you’re not familiar, here’s the nutshell background: The Open Source … Read more

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The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau Source Code Policy: Open and Shared

On April 6th, 2012 the U.S. Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFBP) rolled out their brand new Source Code Policy, setting the direction for their agency to consume and contribute to open source software. As a brand new agency, CFBP is in the enviable position of creating their technology road map on a while sheet of … Read more

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