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Open Source Collaboration: Two Cases in the U.S. Public Sector
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| Globally, there is an emergence of open source consortia focused on the
| sharing of resources and code, and a desire to promote an open source
| approach generally. In this paper, we describe our findings from interviews
| with participants working in two relatively new consortia in the government
| sector: the Government Open Code Collaborative or GOCC, and the Open Source
| Software Institute or OSSI. For each case we consider six major questions:
| (1) How and why did these collaborative efforts begin? (2) What are their
| motivations? (3) How are these collaborative efforts governed? (4) What
| communication and collaborative infrastructure do they utilize? (5) What
| software do they focus on? and, (6) What is their current status? Our
| findings suggest that incentives, membership structures, stable paid staff,
| concentrated focus and attention to the creation and delivery of “value” to
| participating organizations are important factors leading to successful open
| source consortia.
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http://www.uic.edu/htbin/cgiwrap/bin/ojs/index.php/fm/article/view/2313/2065
Recent:
DE: Böblingen considering migration to Open Source desktop
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| The city of Böblingen in the south of Germany next year will try out
| migrating to an Open Source desktop. It wants to have an alternative in place
| when its current proprietary licences run out around 2010.
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| Three of the city's about a dozen departments will be moving to a desktop
| based on the Ubuntu GNU/Linux distribution, according to David Gümbel, an
| Open Source IT consultant helping the city administration with the migration.
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http://www.epractice.eu/document/5303
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