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Open Source for America to Measure Openness and Transparency Across U.S. Federal Government Agencies


OSFA Announces Openness Study on Six-Month Anniversary of the Obama Administration's Open Government Directive 


The study, which is scheduled to be released in Q3FY2010, will gauge openness and transparency across federal agencies and will culminate in a report card assigning a grade to each federal agency based on its public transparency, participation and collaboration.  Read more about OSFA's effort to define Federal openness and transparency.


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.


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 choice, reliability, low-cost, security and faster deployment.

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