Drupal Gov Days is back and it’s bigger than last year’s smash event! The 2012 Drupal Gov Days had 300+ attendees for a day of sessions on cutting-edge open source applications and topics. For the 2013 event, we have expanded to two days and anticipate 500 attendees from the open source government and contractor community.Read… Read more »
Agency of the Future Series: The Impact of Open Source Technology Survey GovLoop is working on the Agency of the Future Series, which is a series of reports, interviews and in-person and online trainings. This survey will focus on how open source technology can help create the agency of the future. Together we will exploreRead… Read more »
Agency of the Future Series: Cloud Computing Survey GovLoop is working on the Agency of the Future Series, which is a series of reports, interviews and in-person and online trainings. This survey will focus on how cloud technology can help create the agency of the future. Together we will explore the best practices and caseRead… Read more »
Sol is the world’s first interplanetary weather app, it integrates weather data from the Curiosity rover on Mars with weather data from here on Earth. The app was developed by Ingenology for the NASA Space App Challenge. Mike Wilson is the President of Ingenology. He told Chris Dorobek on the DorobekINSIDER program that the appRead… Read more »
I created my GitHub account last year during my first week – perhaps day – as a 2012 Code for America fellow. I had to do this in order to complete a challenge that would earn me the coveted CfA track jacket. It’s been over a year now and I push to GitHub daily. InRead… Read more »
Want to thank everyone who came to my session and who sent me wonderful feedback from both the keynote and the session. I was thrilled to see ZDnet wrote a piece about the keynote as well as have practioners, such as Sonya Barry, the Community Manager for Java write things like this about the longerRead… Read more »
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Last week I wrote about how “What Open Source & Open Standards means to Government and citizens” in response to the open standards consultation that is currently running until the end of April 2012. This time I’m going to bring to you one of those rare but truly inspiring case studies for open source inRead… Read more »
I’ve said in the past, that open-source’s lack of adoption in the enterprise space is due, at least in part, to the lack of “focus-group tested ammunition“. Today, I hope the community can help even the odds with this collaboratively edited list of open-source alternatives to typical government and enterprise software needs I was thrilledRead… Read more »
Once upon a time, I was working with the CIO’s Architecture Division of a major cabinet level department. We had a major discussion as to why LAMP should be allowed in our Architecture. There were lots of discussions around security and the reliability of Open Source application stack. In the end, it was not approvedRead… Read more »