I just returned from Matsue, Japan, also known famously as “Ruby City” after the programming language whose inventor lives there. During my stay there I provided the keynote for a Shimane University-sponsored seminar on Open Source Software, Industry and Academic collaboration. It was an honor to represent some of the institutions and groups in Oregon,Continue reading “Open Source Voting : An idea of Global Importance”
Category Archives: National Government
Brazil Video Short: Software Livre – Free Software Initiative
Last week I posted the transcript of Marcos Vinicius Ferreira Mazoni comments addressing the International Open ICT Summit at GOSCON on the sustained government initiative in Brazil to use free open source software and open standards. Mazoni’s encouragement to increase the dialog between countries resonated with participants in Portland and those joining by video conference,Continue reading “Brazil Video Short: Software Livre – Free Software Initiative”
Brazil: Joint Development Defines Free Software & Standards
It’s Day One of GOSCON and we’re about to start our distributed discussion “Global Dialogue on the Impact of Open Source Software in Transforming Government”. Marcos Vinicius Ferreira Mazoni shared these comments on the sustained government initiative in Brazil to use open source and open standards – proprietary software not excluded. Comments include his viewsContinue reading “Brazil: Joint Development Defines Free Software & Standards”
GOSCON/World Bank Global Webcast Scheduled
International Government Open Source Dignitaries Lead Discussion I promised to share information on the webcast when it became available. Here it is: Government Open Source Conference (GOSCON), Oregon State University and the World Bank’s e-Development Thematic Group invite you to join via live webcast a videoconferenced Global Dialogue between Portland, Washington DC, Moscow, Colombo, Dakar,Continue reading “GOSCON/World Bank Global Webcast Scheduled”
The World Joins the Government Open Source Conference
I’ve been talking with some colleagues over the past few months about putting together a group of folks from Washington, D.C. at the World Bank offices there for a joint session during our first ever International Open ICT Summit. I’d met Samia Melhem when we spoke on a panel together at a Gartner Summit aContinue reading “The World Joins the Government Open Source Conference”
We’ll Always Have Paris | Capitale du Libre Conference Sept 24-45
Someone will have Paris – not me this week – but I want to thank Alexander Zapolsky of Linagora for kindly inviting me to speak on September 24 at the Capitale du Libre conference on the wonderfully titled panel “The Public Sector is Crazy for Open Source Softwares”. This highly popular event, underwritten in partContinue reading “We’ll Always Have Paris | Capitale du Libre Conference Sept 24-45”
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