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Open Source for America Welcomes The Linux Box as Latest Member in Advocating
Open Source in the U.S. Federal Government
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| Joining a broad cross-section of more than 1,000 companies, academic
| institutions, communities, related groups and individuals, The Linux Box is
| now part of Open Source for America, a unified voice for the promotion of
| open source in the U.S. Federal government sector. Open Source for America
| strives to effect change in government to encourage broader support of open
| source technologies and the open source development community.
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http://news.prnewswire.com/DisplayReleaseContent.aspx?ACCT=104&STORY=/www/story/08-18-2009/0005079189&EDATE=
U.S. defense agency teaching open source
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| The September 1 seminar, co-hosted by the Defense Information Systems Agency
| (DISA) and the Open Source Software Institute (OSSI), promises to detail the
| Open Source Corporate Management Information System (OSCMIS) program,
| a "Web-based federal administrative software suite consisting of more than 50
| applications which handles human resource, training, security, acquisition
| and related functions for DISA's more than 16,000 users worldwide."
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| John Weathersby, executive director of the OSSI, told me over e-mail
| that "this is about transparency and sharing and making available resources
| which have already been paid for."
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http://news.cnet.com/8301-13505_3-10311789-16.html?part=rss&tag=feed&subj=TheOpenRoad
Recent:
The status of open government efforts in the U.S.
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| In the Washington Monthly, Charles Homans has an extensive investigation into
| the early efforts, both in Washington D.C. as a city, and on the government
| level after the high profile nomination (by Obama) of open government
| advocate Vivek Kundera.
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http://blog.p2pfoundation.net/the-status-of-open-government-efforts-in-the-us/2009/07/23
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