Ted Leung on the air
Ted Leung on the air: Open Source, Java, Python, and ...
Ted Leung on the air: Open Source, Java, Python, and ...
Fri, 11 Jul 2003
OSCON: Lisa Wolfisch, Terry Bollinger, Patrick J. Moran "Open Source Projects in the US Government"
I went to this talk to find out more about how the US government is
using open source. I had already planned to go to this talk, and
Mitch Kapar's prediction that the public sector was going to drive
open source only increased my curiousity. Lisa Wolfisch works for
the US Census and Patrick Moran works for NASA.
Wolfisch concentrated on how open source is making inroads into the
government and how they are using it. Her memorable quote "the
penguin has landed". In her situation, OSS gives her the advantage of
zero procurement delay. Low price is just a nice to have. The talked
about their success at building the QuickFacts web
site, and the mapstats section of the Fedstats site.
Moran's story was more gloomy. He told of his troubles in trying to
get NASA software open sourced, and of his experiences releasing a report on open source at NASA. His memorable quote,
"I'm not the official NASA spokesman, but I have a NASA t-shirt".
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