What is "GovernmentForge"?
PURPOSE: The concept behind GovernmentForge is to provide a central location for government representatives to gather information, download programs and applications, and share knowledge and experience on open source software and other open technologies which can provide benefit and service to government and public sector IT users, managers and policy makers.
To meet this challenge, GovernmentForge will serve as:
1) an Information Aggregator; and as a limited
2) Government Open Source Software Resource Repository.
1)
Information Aggregator: GovernmentForge is specifically designed to serve as an aggregator, or reference point, for available open source software programs, modules and development communities-of-interest for access, acquisition and use by government and public sector entities.
Access to this information is not limited to government entities, but is designed to address common public sector program needs, technical and security requirements and standards government acquisition protocols.
Reuse of Publicly Sponsored Code Development -- One of the essential benefits of the open source software is the ability (
and legally-granted right through license agreement) of developers and end users to access, use and redistribute programs and applications.
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Open Source Software Repository :
There are many very valuable and well run software and resource repositories currently available within the government and private sector. GovernmentForge's is to provide reference and access (where appropriate) to these various resources in order to leverage the existing available resources for public sector's usage.
GovernmentForge is designed to:
-- serves as a vendor-neutral, non-exclusive liaison node between government and numerous open source "development communities of interest" who represent the different open source development, service and support communities (industry, government, academic, open source development communities-of-interest).
-- meet DoD acquisition and technical development, deployment and distribution protocols in order to provide the most accurate information, security, vulnerability alert and management and updates and documentation for open source software solutions.
What GovernmentForge is "NOT":
GovernmentForge does
NOT intend or attempt to limit access to programs or applications or other public resources.
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Zea Partners announced:
PS-OSS : A study about Public Sector involvement in Open Source software
by Nicolas Bossut - August 30, 2007
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Public sector and Open Source Software (PS-OSS), a report commissioned by the EU Commission addresses the question : What would be the potential impact on the development of the Information Society if public organisations (administrations, research institutions, universities, agencies, public companies) were to release software fully owned by them under a Open Source licence? Is an amplification effect on the adoption and use of information society technologies to be expected?
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Publishing software fully owned by public bodies as Free/Libre/Open Source Software (FLOSS) could facilitate re-use, adaptation and modification of the software by other public organisations, as well as other actors. The free availability of public sector software could possibly result in a "multiplier effect", which if significant, could have an accelerating effect on the development and take-up of information society technologies.
Copy of the full report available here:
Public Sector and Open Source (within European Union) - Final report
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Gateway Monitor 0.4 Released posted by tcort, Wednesday 02/27/2008 at 13:12 CST - 0 repliesThe Gateway team is pleased to announce the fourth release of Gateway Monitor. The Gateway is an open source JavaEE application developed by the Vermont Department of Taxes. It provides a web services framework for accepting Streamlined Sales Tax ...
[Read more] Gateway Anti-Virus 4.1 Released posted by tcort, Tuesday 02/12/2008 at 16:17 CST - 0 repliesThe Gateway Anti-Virus team is pleased to announce the 4.1 release of Gateway Anti-Virus. Gateway Anti-Virus allows applications across the enterprise to check files for viruses by providing a SOAP-based virus scanning web service. This minor release fixes a bug in the WSDL and adds version information to the server response.
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[Read more] Gateway 4.5.0 released posted by mjgagne, Monday 01/14/2008 at 12:35 CST - 0 repliesThe Gateway has changed a lot since the previous release. The directory structure for our Maven modules has been flattened to allow more flexibility in working with each individually. Development to support Modernized eFile has begun and many new ...
[Read more] Gateway Monitor 0.2 Released posted by tcort, Monday 01/07/2008 at 13:46 CST - 0 repliesThe Gateway team is pleased to announce the second release of Gateway Monitor. The Gateway is an open source JavaEE application developed by the Vermont Dept of Taxes. It provides a web services framework for accepting Streamlined Sales Tax ...
[Read more] Gateway Anti-Virus 4.0 Released posted by tcort, Monday 01/07/2008 at 13:46 CST - 0 repliesThe Gateway Anti-Virus team is pleased to announce the 4.0 release of Gateway Anti-Virus. Gateway Anti-Virus allows applications across the enterprise to check files for viruses by providing a SOAP-based virus scanning web service.
This release ...
[Read more] inoclam 1.2.0 Released posted by tcort, Monday 12/17/2007 at 13:41 CST - 0 repliesThe inoclam team is pleased to announce the 1.2.0 release of inoclam. inoclam is a Linux daemon that monitors directories with inotify and virus scans files with Clam Anti-Virus when they are created or changed. It can automatically remove viruses and send e-mail notifications.
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[Read more] inoclam 1.0.0 Released posted by tcort, Monday 12/03/2007 at 16:21 CST - 0 repliesThe inoclam team is pleased to announce the 1.0.0 release of inoclam. inoclam is a Linux daemon that monitors directories with inotify and virus scans files with ClamAV when they are created or changed.
This is the first release of inoclam. ...
[Read more] TMX Localization Editor jumps to 0.1.0! posted by mjgagne, Wednesday 11/21/2007 at 23:54 CST - 0 repliesTMX-Editor development is chugging along! This release follows a successful restructuring of the source to keep things better organized. Along with the changes to structure, the editor is now a bit "smarter" and contains a few new ...
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