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Open Source in the Enterprise

Using open source in the enterprise — the question is no longer "if," but "how?" The low cost, easy access, and expansive license terms of open source are certainly attractive — especially since IT budgets have decreased 3-5% every year, while software costs have increased, and IT staffs have been tasked to create web services and pursue Web 2.0 initiatives. Get the report.

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What is Gov 2.0? - Tim O'Reilly and others discuss recent initiatives

• What is Gov 2.0?
• White House moves recovery.gov to Amazon's cloud
• White House deputy CTO Noveck on next steps for open government
• Craig Newmark on better government through enlightened customer service

Four short links: 11 May 2010

ToxicLibs -- an independent, open source library collection for computational design tasks with Java & Processing. (via joshua on Delicious) RibbonHero -- a game for learning the new Microsoft Office. (via azaaza on Twitter) Teambox -- open source project collaboration tool. Google Web Security Tutorials -- the classes given to new recruits, including Jarlsberg, a bug-ridden very vulnerable demo...

Notes from the Politics of Open Source conference

Sponsored by the Journal of Information Technology & Politics, the conference papers and a live stream are online. This article focuses on the challenges of getting open source into government agencies.

Four short links: 7 May 2010

Flash is Not a Right (Ian Bogost) -- I worry that we're losing a sense of diversity in computation. This seems to be happening at both the formal and informal levels. Georgia Tech's computer science bachelor's degree doesn't require a language survey class, for example (although one is offered as an elective). This year in the Computational Media curriculum...

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Open Source Experts

whurley is the Chief Architect of Open Source Strategy at BMC Software, Inc. where he is responsible for creating BMC's open source agenda and overseeing the company's participation in various free, and open source software communities.

Van Lindberg is a software engineer and practicing attorney. What he does most, though, is translate - from "lawyer" to "engineer" and back. He likes working with both computer code and legal code to get things done. Van's current work touches both traditional intellectual property and the emerging field of open source…

Tyler Mitchell is the author of Web Mapping Illustrated - a book focused on teaching how to use popular Open Source Geospatial Toolkits. He works as the Executive Director of the Open Source Geospatial Foundation, aka OSGeo.

Todd Ogasawara is the editor of MobileAppsToday.com. He has been named a Microsoft Most Valuable Professional (MVP) in the Mobile Devices category for the past several years. You can find his personal website focusing on Mobile Device Technology at www.mobileviews.com.

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