Our Goals

  • Aligned with our commitment to the four principles, our goals are to help effect change in the U.S. Federal government policies and practices to allow the federal government to better utilize free and open source software;

  • Help coordinate the communities collaboration with the Federal government on technology requirements;

  • Raise awareness and create understanding among federal government leaders in the executive and legislative branches about the values and implications of open source software.

    • Choice
    • Reliability
    • Low-cost
    • Security
    • Fast deployment

The Benefit of Open Source

The Open Source model harnesses the power of distributed peer review and transparency to create high-quality, secure and easily integrated software at an accelerated pace and lower cost.

Primary benefits of open source software are:

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Events

Some featured events: 
  • January 26-28, OSMB, Nuremberg, Germany
  • January 30, OpsCamp, Austin, TX
  • February 6-7, FOSDEM, Brussels, Belgium
  • March 12-16, SXSW, Austin, TX
  • May 6-7, 2010, The Politics of Open Source University of Massachusetts Amherst. More information and complete CFP deadline: Jan 10, 2010

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News & Blogs

Breaking News:

Oregon Association of Government IT Managers issues statement that it will be moving to an Open Source platform
White House issues Memorandum of Transparency and Open Government
 OSFA statement

White House Opens Web

Department of Defense provides guidance on the use of open source software

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Listen to Industry Leaders discuss open source, how it evolved and how they feel OSFA can effect change.

      

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July 22, 2009

Broad Coalition Formed to Promote Benefits and Adoption of Open Source Software in Government.

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