Arthur G. Grant

Has anyone had any experience with any open source gamification software?

From Application Development Trends blog Waterswork
Possible Game Changer: IBM’s Open Source Watson Cloud Platform When IBM announced its decision last month to turn its Watson cognitive computing technology into an open software development platform, complete with APIs and (Big Blue hopes) a partner ecosystem, the news didn’t exactly set the…[Read more]

Free Open Source Content Management Systems Event December 10, Washington DC
Digital Disruption In The Public Sector: Making The Agency Of The Future A Reality Today
Featuring speakers from The White House, National Archives, FEMA, Acquia, Amazon Web Services, and others.
For more information and to reserve your place.

Published on Nov 15, 2013
Ben Balter, GitHub’s government evangelist, outlines in this FedScoopTV interview the advantages of open source and the innovative ways government is using it.

From Grigon Melnik’s MSDN Blog: Microsoft Enterprise Library Goes Full Open Source Microsoft Enterprise Library has a long and prominent history. Over the years, it has evolved into a mature collection of application blocks, each focused on addressing specific cross-cutting concern. New blocks have been introduced, while others become deprecated…[Read more]

IMO very interesting article from from the Infosecurity Magazine: The Paradox of OSS: More Secure by Definition; Often Less Secure in UseOne side-effect of the Snowden revelations and rumors and accusations of government-inspired backdoors in mainstream software products is increased interest in open source software (OSS). But while OSS comes…[Read more]

GitHub has launched a new Government section featuring Gov. of Canada most active Open Source project, the Web Experience Toolkit 🙂http://government.github.com

I recently posted an interview with the City of Raleigh CIO, Gail Roper, thought some of you might be into it:
http://opensource.com/government/13/10/future-open-source-city
Jason

There is a new open source conference coming to Raleigh, NC in case anyone wants to check it out: http://www.allthingsopen.org/

Jason

Have posted a discussion which could have some value/interest to some:
Title: Google Supports Open Source

French Gendarmerie: “Open source desktop lowers TCO by 40%” 37,000 Ubuntus deployed so far, 72,000 next summer https://joinup.ec.europa.eu/community/osor/news/french-gendarmerie-open-source-desktop-lowers-tco-40

For those who can read French, two very interesting OSS developments in Quebec gov. (Canada):Mesures sur l’utilisation du logiciel libre dans les organismes publics : un premier bilan positif après six moishttp://communiques.gouv.qc.ca/gouvqc/communiques/GPQF/Septembre2013/20/c9007.htmlL’Assemblée nationale vote une motion pour souligner la…[Read more]

DoJ may go opensource
From Nextgov.com The Justice Department could be the next federal agency to switch a large share of its websites over to the open source Drupal content management system, contracting documents show.The agency posted a sole-source solicitation on Tuesday asking Drupal supplier Acquia to help it transfer up to its entire Web…[Read more]