Posts By Andy Oram

Red Hat Overhauls the Enterprise Software Stack (report from Red Hat Summit and JBoss World)

A few people expressed interest in this conference and asked me to report back on it. So here’s my blog: http://oreil.ly/ccK4vg I didn’t catch any talks directly related to government. One interesting talk was on implementing mobile applications in health care using open source SOA tools and libraries.

Interviews on open source with HHS contractors Brian Behlendorf and Arien Malec

From Apache to Health and Human Services: Apache co-founder Brian Behlendorf discusses the CONNECT health data project Brian Behlendorf, one of the founders of the Apache Web server project and the CollabNet cooperative software development company, is contracting now with the Department of Health and Human Services on a software project they opened up aRead… Read more »

Privacy and open government: conversations with EPIC and others

On Friday I posted a blog about an proposal for protecting the privacy of citizens and federal employees who use federal web sites. A more policy-oriented blog is now at: http://radar.oreilly.com/2009/08/privacy-and-open-government-co.html Topics: Can the government be your friend? Anonymity, pseudonymity, and participation Who should run an OpenID server? Thought experiment: could federal agencies offer anonymousRead… Read more »

Shortening cookies: Using OpenID to improve government privacy online (response to OMB request)

I think this blog, although it focuses on technical solutions, would interest GovLoop readers because of its relationship to public participation. Here is the intro. — For almost a decade, thanks to privacy laws, U.S. government web sites have been prohibited from using cookies to maintain information on visitors between sessions. (Session cookies are allowedRead… Read more »