Open Source Software in Government

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Comment by Gabriel Cossette on Wednesday

Red Hat Enterprise Linux will now be supported for 10 years:

http://goo.gl/yIrAA

And Mozilla launched a new ESR (extended support) version of Firefox that will be supported for 1 year:

http://goo.gl/QBqOC

Comment by Gabriel Cossette on January 25, 2012 at 10:30am

New affordable open-source surgery robot released and shared across multiple US universities! http://goo.gl/oYPzq

Comment by GovLoop on January 23, 2012 at 2:26pm

Good question from Kevin - What best practices in software procurment do you see?

http://www.govloop.com/forum/topics/what-best-practices-in-software...

Comment by GovLoop on January 18, 2012 at 9:05am

Jerry has a good question - "Can a LAMP stack shine at your agency?"

http://www.govloop.com/profiles/blogs/can-a-lamp-shine-at-your-agency

Comment by Gabriel Cossette on January 15, 2012 at 1:58pm

More open source news from NASA! :)

NASA Open Sources Aircraft Design Software

"OpenVSP allows the user to create a 3D model of an aircraft defined by common engineering parameters. This model can be processed into formats suitable for engineering analysis."

Comment by Andrew Krzmarzick on January 14, 2012 at 5:57pm

Looks like Deb's link is broken...here's one that works:

http://www.govloop.com/group/OSSinGov/forum/topics/government-open-...

Comment by Deborah Bryant on January 14, 2012 at 1:26pm

Great question Mark, a number of us have been debating this issue for a while now, including our forum sponsor John Scott.

I've opend a discussion thread to move this off the comment wall. 

Government Open Source Code Repositories

Comment by Mark Dixon on January 14, 2012 at 12:54pm

So I'm wondering what role CivicCommons.org could play in the code repository function...why have multiple "forks" of repositories?

I can see an internal gov repository for sensitive/secure code...but not for the rest...

Comment by Deborah Bryant on January 14, 2012 at 12:11pm

Hi Gabriel and Megan, great discussion, can we move this to a discussion forum?  I'm very interested in government code repositories and oss licensing strategies and I think the thread is valuable to others too.

FYI here's the license info on Life Ray's public web site too http://www.liferay.com/downloads/liferay-portal/license

Comment by Gabriel Cossette on January 13, 2012 at 11:40pm

Yes for sure, but let's talk outside of the general OSS comment wall I guess ;)

And one last thing regarding your new http://code.nasa.gov initiative. I read that Phase 3 will focus on implementing appropriate public tools for your OSS projects (version control, issue tracking...).

As an example that could maybe help you a bit, we already have such website to manage Government of Canada OSS projects: Intellectual Resources Canada (http://ircan.gc.ca). It's based on Redmine along with SVN/Git as source control.

Don't hesitate to contact us about it ;)

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