It’s been about five years since the DoD-commissioned Open Technology Development Road Map was published, considered the definitive primer for smart government agencies and their personnel diving in to Open Source development, acquisition and operational policy-making. The next anxiously-awaited (well, not anxious but very much looked-forward to) installment – entitled “Open Technology Development: Lessons LearnedContinue reading “DoD Releases Open Technology Development: Lessons Learned by the Military”
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US Federal Report Card on Open Source, Technology Released
Following the first year of implementation of the Open Government Directive, a number of valuable reports have addressed the openness and transparency progress made by federal agencies. Today’s Open Source for America (OSFA) report card digs a little deeper into its own domain – Open Source, Open Technology in use in their report on FederalContinue reading “US Federal Report Card on Open Source, Technology Released”
US Gov Memo Spells Out Open Source Inclusion in Federal Acquisition
First the musings: Because I’ve been involved with open source adoption in Government nearly since Al Gore invented the Internet, I get a lot of questions about what the White House is thinking about Open Source. Joking aside, this has been present on people’s minds since the new administration took office. For those familiar withContinue reading “US Gov Memo Spells Out Open Source Inclusion in Federal Acquisition”
The Year of Open Government: Who’s Making it So?
I’m going to GOSCON 2010 – the Government Open Source Conference – of course, and as conference chair I hope I’ll see you there too. We’re back in Portland Oregon this fall. Visit the web site for news, conference program, speaker line up, and registration. So you ask me, what’s hot this year? One thingContinue reading “The Year of Open Government: Who’s Making it So?”
Federal Agency Co-Op CENDI Issues FAQ including Open Source Software
Vicki E. Allums, Associate General Counsel for Intellectual Property at the Defense Information Systems Agency (DISA) will join GOSCON this week to discuss a document released today by CENDI, a cooperative of the major Federal science, technology and information centers. The document titled “Frequently Asked Questions about Copyright and Computer Software: Issues Affecting the U.S.Continue reading “Federal Agency Co-Op CENDI Issues FAQ including Open Source Software”
Whitehouse.gov Migrates to Open Source Drupal
Yesterday the White House Office of New Media announced it had migrated its legacy system for whitehouse.gov to Drupal. Let’s be clear that this constitutes a change in plumbing – important plumbing – and not policy – but is a significant and of course highly visible sign that open source software has gone main stream.Continue reading “Whitehouse.gov Migrates to Open Source Drupal”
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