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”
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Open Source Lab Inside Story at OSBC March 18th
My executive hero and Oregon State University Open Source Lab (OSU OSL) visionary Curt Pederson will be doing a talk about the OSL at this week’s Open Source Business Conference in San Francisco. If you’re going to be at OSBC drop by and thank Curt for his critical role in making the case for theContinue reading “Open Source Lab Inside Story at OSBC March 18th”
Best Practices for Software Development in Government
Last winter I received a request from the US Department of Homeland Security’s Office of Policy to come Charleston and meet with a group of innovative law enforcement execs. If you belong to the public safety community or are interested in how governments are making collaboratives work, a copy of my presentation is viewable onContinue reading “Best Practices for Software Development in Government”
Community Source and Goverment Applications
I’m working on following up with a number of requests for information post-GOSCON. Always number one on my list; agencies looking to determine if/how they might jump in to using open source software development methodology to produce government-specific applications. These applications are typically costly since the market for such is limited. Developing the same verticalContinue reading “Community Source and Goverment Applications”
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”
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”
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