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

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