Conference News

The November 5, 2009 GOSCON DC  is now a successful footnote in conference history.  Many thanks to those who attended, to our speakers, and to our sponsors for making it so.

The conference is part of an ongoing series produced by the Open Souce Lab at Oregon State University in collaboration with government IT leadership and  private industry.  We're hearing good things about the first DC event and encourage feedback to help us keep the conference highly relevant to public service IT professional GOSCON serves.

Vicki E. Allums, Associate General Counsel for Intellectual Property at the Defense Information Systems Agency (DISA) will join GOSCON this week  to discuss  a new document released today by CENDI, a cooperative of the major Federal science, technology and information centers.  The document entitled “Frequently Asked Questions about Copyright and Computer Software: Issues Affecting the U.S.

We're pleased to announce our GOSCON DC 2009 Keynotes!

  • Breakfast Keynote: Mr. David M. Wennergren, Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Information Management and Technology / Deputy Chief Information Officer US Department of Defense
  • Luncheon Keynote: Dr. David G. Boyd, Ph.D., Director, Command, Control and Interoperability Division Science and Technology Directorate, U.S. Department of Homeland Security

Other Speaker Highlights include:

GOSCON DC

Planning is underway for our next event.

 

Does your organization have an open source strategy?  Come hear how government organizations, your peers and industry partners are changing their approach to information technology with open source.

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GOSCON speakers

Program Director, Federal Health Architecture Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology
US Department of Health and Human Services
Editor-In-Chief
VistA and Open Healthcare News
CTO and Vice President, Engineering
Red Hat
IT Project Manager
General Services Administration

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Deb Bryant added to the speaker lineup at POSSCON.. Expert in open source usage in gov and huge in the open source world. GOSCON and OSU Lab

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Mailing goscon Excellence in use of Open Source awards to SanFrancisco and New Mexico today. Full list of winners is at ab4EI !

Feb 11, 5:42pm

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