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Roadmap to an Open Source City
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| I sincerely believe that this is the right model at the right time. Hamilton
| could be a real leader, generating local expertise in city/public
| collaboration, realizing efficiencies and improving city business, and
| engaging the public more effectively in developing innovative solutions to
| the city's challenges.
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| The most successful organizations today are those that have embraced the
| concept of openness: of deriving value from a collaboration platform, of
| sharing information and resources, of aggregating the contributions of a wide
| array of participants, and of committing to the kind of continuous
| improvement that comes from respectful peer review.
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http://www.raisethehammer.org/index.asp?id=909
Recent:
Bureaucrats, Technocrats and Policy Cats: How the Government is turning to Open
Source, and Why.
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| Open source shares critical values with government and public education that
| make them function in the ideal; meritocracy of ideas, transparency,
| collaboration. But where is the sweet spot in the confluence of these social,
| technical, and public policy ideals? What is the opportunity for the citizen
| developer to get involved? And would it surprise you to know that change has
| been quietly at work while you were still standing in line for your driver’s
| license?
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http://en.oreilly.com/oscon2009/public/schedule/detail/8384
Open Government and Open Source at the Department of Defense - Part 1
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| Open source can be defined as a development method for software that
| harnesses the power of distributed peer review and transparency of process,
| and the promise of open source is better quality, higher reliability, more
| flexibility, lower cost, and an end to predatory vendor lock-in (from The
| Open Source Initiative). The US Government, including DoD, is taking a new
| look at open source as a way to achieve cost savings, and improvement in
| quality. Scott McNealy, in a BBC interview in January of this year, said
| that he had been asked, by the new administration, to write a paper on open
| source. OSI President, Micheal Tiemann, also claimed that the US government
| could save around $400bn dollars through use of open source.
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http://www.examiner.com/examiner/x-10080-DC-EGovernment-Examiner~y2009m6d26-OPEN-GOVERNMENT-AND-OPEN-SOURCE-AT-DOD
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