Organizational Readiness: Skillset, Migration, Stakeholders

Open source technology offers its users the technical and financial
flexibility not available within the constraints of closed alternatives.
Open source technology requires more open and innovative approaches
throughout the system life cycle.  This presentation will focus on the
financial, technological, and social aspects of an organization's
evolving role in the broader open source technology ecosystem to include
consumer, patron, contributor, and participant.  Each of these four
roles requires a different level of organizational readiness and
interaction.

About the Speaker:

Heather Burke is the Open Technology Development (OTD) Lead at SPAWAR
Systems Center (SSC) Atlantic where she focuses on development and building of open systems and technologies on behalf of DoD sponsors.  She has supported shaping and understanding of policies in this new domain of web 2.0 and OTD in the DoD.  She holds a BS in Computer Engineering from Clemson University and is currently in a joint executive masters program at Naval Postgraduate School in partnership with MIT.