The effort underway at Tennessee Fusion Center involves implementing a Intelligence Production and Management System, the Fusion System. The system will bring diverse information types and sources together through information
The effort underway at Tennessee Fusion Center involves implementing a Intelligence Production and Management System, the Fusion System. The system will bring diverse information types and sources together through information collection
GOSCON 2010’s Executive Open Data Round Table will feature state, city and federal leadership exploring the successes and challenges of the open government directive, its influence on state and local government operations, and the role
In early 2009, the Naval Postgraduate School began an 18-month migration away from its commercial learning management system onto the open source Sakai Collaboration and Learning Environment. By leveraging an open source LMS solution
For many governmental CIOs in 2010, Linux equals a faster path to gaining greater efficiencies in their data centers. For others, Linux provides the foundation of a growing list of options as to how to supplement their capacity (e.g.
Every city performs much the same functions for its citizens. Yet there is massive duplication of spending by cities as each builds its own applications and platforms. Washington DC Chief Technology Officer Bryan Sivak, OpenPlans’
This panel will be comprised the NY State Senate CIO, Andrew Hoppin, and representatives of his staff. For the first 30 mins, Mr. Hoppin and his staff will summarize the incredible story of NY State Senate's transformation from one of
Over the past seven years, TriMet has saved significant costs by exploring open source alternatives to every new technology system. Comparisons of open source software side by side with proprietary solutions against the requirements
The Open Government Directive emphasizes collaboration across government and between government and industry to improve federal agencies’ efficiency, boost national competitiveness and protect national security.
Beginning in 2001, several Oregon counties began developing an open source web mapping system which would enable the public, business and government organizations to access geographic information in support of government business
The same principles that make open source software projects succeed can help agencies haunted by budget challenges and dysfunctional models of collaboration. Hundreds of thousands of open source software projects are capturing an
After more than 20 years of development by the U.S. Government and while still under active development, the BRL-CAD solid modeling computer-aided design system was released as Open Source software in 2004. While garnering immediate
CONNECT is an open source software gateway that allows health organizations to securely exchange health-related information with each other using nationally recognized standards – whether across the street or across the country.
Open-CITIES, Open-eGovern and SAAS: Open Electronic Public Administration, Interoperability and Mutitenancy based on Open Standards. Open Data. Software as a Service.
From real-time bus locations to parking management, to multi-modal trip routing, to system planning, many aspects of managing a transportation agency's operations can now be handled using open source software. This session will look at
An open source web content management system (CMS) can cost-effectively empower your agency’s web presence and functionality or it can be an expensive, inflexible tool that hampers your online efforts. Open source veteran Shaun
Just about every city wants to build compelling applications to engage their citizens using the Web. Information sources may include open datasets, local news or stories, real-time feeds, municipal government information systems, or
The open source world benefits hugely from the generosity of thousands of voluntary contributors. Nevertheless it is often difficult to find volunteers to undertake specific activities - especially those outside the normal "geek comfort
Wikipedia pages are information rich but not easily accessible to data mining because their content is only made uniform by convention, not strict input validation.We present an approach to data-mining large volumes of semi-structured
Although the global recession is easing, budgets are still not what they once were – both at home and in the government sector. It is more important than ever to spend tax revenues wisely, and government agencies are finding
Can public sector use open source to better collaborate on common IT challenges? This session will outline some of practices that can be used by government agencies to share code and help lower overall costs of application development.
Open source communities and approaches to project management can be used in culture shifting techniques to achieve principles of open government transparency. By using open source software and open source practices, government
The City of Portland has recently implemented open source network and system monitoring using OpenNMS. Currently this is deployed for a City operated network serving external customer agencies including schools and government. OpenNMS
This a “how to” session that establishes a foundational understanding of what it takes to produce a Proof of Concept Prototype and a Pilot Project which objectively prove that a given Opensource Technology can be successfully employed
Traditional systems management solutions are not keeping pace with the the current demands for speed, flexibility and transparency. We will show you how model-driven automation and configuration management frameworks, such as Puppet,
This talk will present some of the great opportunities and the corresponding challenges to working with a government agency on an open source project. Transparency conceptually offers powerful opportunities to increase accuracy, provide
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