Open Source Software in Government

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Comment by Stephen Peteritas on August 31, 2010 at 9:28am

Hey guys great blog on open source in gov today on govloop: http://www.govloop.com/profiles/blogs/gov-20-is-open-source

At the end it asks about whether there are any state or local govs with an open source code repository? Anybody have an idea post it in the comments. Would love to get an answer...and if there isn't one we should totally push for it.

Comment by Henry Brown on August 27, 2010 at 6:34am

Have added a discussion which MIGHT have some interest to this group

Title NASA Information Technology Summit in Washington DC

Comment by JOHN SCOTT on August 26, 2010 at 11:20am

Mil-OSS working group 2 wrap-up
http://opensource.com/government/10/8/mil-oss-working-group-2-wrap
Openness in the military is coming of-age, as was evident to the attendees at the 2nd Military Open Source Software (Mil-OSS) working group held August 3-5 in Arlington, Virginia. This grassroots gathering of practitioners in the art/science of creating military capabilities was unique in its inclusive atmosphere of government civilians, military uniformed (and retired) personnel, government contractors, and university academics. All gathered with one goal: how to more rapidly create and deploy military capabilities utilizing open source software for the U.S. Soldier, Sailor, Airman, and Marine.

Comment by Kristin Bockius on August 5, 2010 at 10:24am

A new blog post - A New Bright Star in #Government – HeyGov! for San Francisco http://bit.ly/cQcDnj. “HeyGov! represents a new business model where openness, collaboration and innovation are at the center. We see Open311 API as just the start of a much larger effort to create APIs for many more areas of government service delivery,” says Chris Vein, City & County of San Francisco CIO.

Comment by GovLoop on August 4, 2010 at 10:28am

I think Eureka is pretty fascinating. Feels out of left-field for Lockheed. I think there's room for improvement in open-source social space. I've looked at a lot of it for potentially moving GovLoop but nothing (Drupal, Elgg, Joomla, etc) really has it all yet - all robust features and good UI. Anything to push all of them forward is good in my mind

Comment by Andrew Krzmarzick on August 4, 2010 at 10:19am

Nice post: "As Users Become Programmers"
http://www.govloop.com/profiles/blogs/as-users-become-programmers

Comment by Kit Plummer on July 29, 2010 at 11:04am

What is really interesting to me, is that not only has LMCO opened up the code for ES, but they've put their developers out there too.

http://github.com/lmco

You can follow the developer's activities as well:

http://github.com/sterlecki

If LMCO were to start building in hooks for an open-core model, or something else you'd be able to see it sooner than later. And, if you don't like that idea, you can always click the "fork" button.

Comment by Paul Boos on July 29, 2010 at 10:54am

I haven't read Blankenhorn's comments in full, but just because it can be done in Drupal (or Pinax which is what I am familiar with) so what? Everyone wants competition, so this needs to be encouraged, not targeted harshly.

What would tick me off as a Stream user would be if LMCO started making it a hook into only their other commerciakl stuff or somehow limited it to where you HAD to use their services. Then it would be open in name only.

Thanks for the pointer to the counter argument!

Comment by JOHN SCOTT on July 29, 2010 at 9:52am

Interesting rebuttal to Blankenhorn tinhat tenancies and LMCO Eureka: An excellent post on how *not* to encourage more corporations to contribute to #opensource: http://bit.ly/aHpV3V #miloss
Also Eureka to speak in DC next week at: http://www.mil-oss.org/

Comment by JOHN SCOTT on July 27, 2010 at 2:47pm

big props to Lockheed today for Eureka Streams

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