<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"> <html> <head> </head> <body bgcolor="#ffffff" text="#000000"> 1 <div style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px;"> -------- Original Message -------- From: <a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:osa-board-announce@opensourceforamerica.org">osa-board-announce@opensourceforamerica.org</a> Date: Sep 1, 2009 3:54:42 PM Subject: [Osa-board-announce] Open Source for America -- Update and Sept 9th Dinner in Washington DC To: <a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:osa-board-announce@opensourceforamerica.org">osa-board-announce@opensourceforamerica.org</a>, <a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:osa-steering@opensourceforamerica.org">osa-steering@opensourceforamerica.org</a> <div class="mimepart text html"> <tt>To: Open Source for America Board of Advisors From: Open Source for America Steering Committee Many of you have expressed interest in different levels of OSA involvement. Those of you who wish to be active should be, especially as regards: advising both the Steering Committee and the Working Groups, talking to the media, talking with U.S. government officials, and appearing in behalf of the coalition at conferences. We're working on a light but effective means for  collaboration with you, and that will start to become available momentarily. In this regard, a Board member has offered to host dinner on September 9th, in Washington DC, for the Board and Steering Committee members who can make it (some of you will be in town for the O'Reilly Gov 2.0 Summit). Details to come in a follow-up email -- stay tuned.  As an update, the launch on July 22 went very well. To view the media coverage, see: <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.opensourceforamerica.org/news-and-events/coverage" moz-do-not-send="true" target="_blank">http://www.opensourceforamerica.org/news-and-events/coverage</a>. Our thanks to those of you who helped with the media and/or with the Podcasts. The membership has already swelled from the approximately 70 founding members to more than 1,200.   The next step is to now organize this new, large community. As some of you already know, we are setting up working groups for specific technology areas. We have set up the website on a wiki and with a "members only" section, and expect to soon begin leveraging the site for open collaboration among the members of these working groups. We have pre-registered you but you will need to reset your passwords, do that by clicking here:  <a href="http://opensourceforamerica.org/reset-password" moz-do-not-send="true" target="_blank">http://opensourceforamerica.org/reset-password</a> In some cases, these working groups align with the Obama Administration's priorities. In other cases, we have already identified strong advocates for a particular issue. We'll no doubt be adding and changing groups based on their performance and support over time. At the moment, we've recognized the following areas:  1. Healthcare  2. Energy and Transportation  3. Education  4. Military  5. Acquisitions & Competition  6. State and Local  7. CyberSecurity  8. Transparency  9. Voting and Elections Technology 10. Geospatial Technology 11. Marketing & Public Relations If any of you have particular interest in any of these working groups and you would like to provide advise or leadership, please reply to Tom Rabon and Chris Hankin, their email addresses are included on this email thread. Best regards, Open Source for America Steering Committee ### </tt> </div> </div> <div class="moz-signature">-- <table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="450"> <tbody> <tr valign="top"> <td height="121" width="121"><a href="http://www.sun.com"><img moz-do-not-send="true" src="http://www.sun.com/emrkt/sigs/6g_top.gif" border="0" height="116" width="121"></a></td> <td style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10px;" height="121" width="329">Mr. Christopher Hankin Sr Director of Federal Affairs Sun Microsystems, Inc. 1300 I St, NW, Suite 420E Washington, DC 20005 US Phone 202-326-7522 Email <a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:Chris.Hankin@Sun.COM">Chris.Hankin@Sun.COM</a> </td> </tr> </tbody> </table> </div> </body> </html>