NASA, State Department and Veteran Affairs Innovation Initiative Host Open Source Summit

June 5, 2012

Sonja Alexander
Headquarters, Washington
202-358-1761
sonja.r.alexander@nasa.gov

RELEASE: 12-183

NASA, STATE DEPARTMENT AND VETERAN AFFAIRS INNOVATION INITIATIVE HOST OPEN SOURCE SUMMIT

WASHINGTON -- Registration for the second Open Source Summit, hosted
by NASA, the U.S. State Department and the Veteran Affairs Innovation
Initiative to advance the use of open source software in government,
is under way. The event will be held June 20-21 at the Robert H.
Smith School of Business at the University of Maryland in College
Park, Md.

The summit will convene leaders from government and industry as well
as software practitioners to discuss the development, release and use
of open source software, which is characterized by a collaborative
development process and free user access.

Discussion topics will include the current and future state of the
government open source community, how-to insights for open source
projects in government, real-world projects and their successes and
challenges, and government procurement of open source software.

As the role of open source in government expands and matures, the
relationship between technology, policy and culture will be
increasingly important. Open source brings numerous benefits to
government software projects, including increased software quality,
reduced development costs, faster development cycles and reduced
barriers to public-private collaboration through new opportunities to
commercialize technology. This inherently transparent, participatory,
and collaborative approach is revolutionizing the way software is
created, improved and used.

For more information and to register, visit:

http://open.nasa.gov/summit


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