My Talk: Enabling Open Source Projects in Government

My talk is about how to make open source project viable in government. My slides are here. The summary of my talk is:

• Educate and encourage employees
• Preach open source
• Start open source pilots
• Find specific ways to insert open source into the RFP process
• Work with vendors
• Add open source to architecture standards documents (see Utah’s standard)
• Use the political process to push open source

Posted by windley on March 17, 2003 3:21 PM