Open Source Delivers

Recently the space shuttle Enterprise make its final flight, circling the Statue of Liberty while sitting atop a 747. It was a breathtaking sight, and also a reminder that NASA, at least for the time being, is focusing its energies closer to home. One of the next frontiers for NASA is open source. In February [...]

Last week’s Defense Daily Cyber-Security Summit in Washington drew participants from industry and government agencies including the intelligence community (I could tell you, but…), NRC, TSA and the DoD. The panel on which I spoke discussed “open security” and included representatives from HP’s Fortify group and experts from NSA and Homeland Security. The conclusions confirmed [...]

Two top universities are collaborating on free online courseware, the European Union is developing an open source toolkit, Facebook’s Open Compute Project is gaining new members and you may be able to carry your desktop in your pocket sooner than you think. Here’s what happened in open source this week: Barb Darrow reported on the [...]

After weeks of buzz around the so-called “cloud wars,” the Linux Foundation has announced it will host a vendor-neutral open source cloud conference called CloudOpen. From the cloud to new open source advances in government, and a new interview with Red Hat’s CEO, we’ve got you covered with all the open source headlines from this [...]

From NASA and OpenStack to Facebook and Instagram, open source has dominated technology news this week. Within the last 7 days, there have been multiple open source announcements in government, cloud, social media and auto…and you’re not going to miss any of it! Scott Merrill reported on the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau’s announcement of its [...]

There were a lot of organizations making open source announcements this week: Yahoo!, Facebook and Tufts University. However, none caused as big a stir as Citrix submitting CloudStack to the Apache Software Foundation, increasing competition in the cloud computing space. Here are these stories and more: Gigaom’s Ryan Lawler reported on Yahoo! open sourcing Mojito: [...]

In my posting about a DoD meeting I attended concerning open source acquisition, I mention “discussion about a couple of ‘corner cases’ where certain licenses had clauses, which could conflict with federal law.” There were two that came up in the meeting: one having to do with disclosure of confidential information and the other an [...]

Last summer, the US Department of Veterans Affairs launched OSEHRA, the central governing body of a new open source software community focused on electronic health records. The community is growing rapidly, with more than 750 members from industry, government, and academia so far. VA has contributed its VistA EHR software, and many community members are [...]

The big stories this week were the reunion of Android with Linux in the new kernel 3.3 release and the news of the Icelandic public sector’s year long program to move all its software from proprietary to open source. Read about these stories and more: Stephen Shankland reported on the inclusion of Android code in [...]

This week saw new companies joining the Linux Foundation, Microsoft open sourcing its scripting program and the VA naming the OSEHRA board of directors. Catch up on these stories and more: Mary Mosquera reported on the Department of Veteran Affairs OSEHRA board of director’s announcement in the Government Health IT article, “VA Open Source Group [...]