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Advocating Open Source Within the Gov't

Posted by Hemos on from the making-headway-within-the-powers-that-be dept.

There's an interesting piece running on Newsforge concerning advocacy of Open Source within the (US) Federal Government. The Feds, as we've talked about here before, are caught in an interesting cross fire - and based on personal experience, I can tell you that they are looking at it. Carpe Diem, folks.

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  1. Not only Open Source, but also Open Standards by mdubinko · · Score: 5, Informative

    An article on XML.com outlines the US government's new mandate to support only open standards, specifically mentioning W3C. Even cooler, the guidelines expressly forbid competing (proprietary) standards.

    See the article

    .micah

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  2. OSSI mailing list by xiitone · · Score: 5, Informative

    The OSSI has a mailing list for discussing Open Source and federal Projects.
    subscribe:
    opengovtprojects mailing list
    or email:
    opengovtprojects-request@oss-institute.org with the word subscribe as the subject

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