State Department

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Exclusive: Years After Manning Leaks, State Department Cable System Lacks Basic Security

Justine Sharrock | BuzzFeed | October 2, 2013

The State Department’s communications system is operating without basic technical security measures in place, despite warnings about its vulnerabilities, according to documents obtained by BuzzFeed and sources who have worked on the project. [...] Read More »

Hillary Clinton Helps Silicon Valley On Her Way Out the Door

Elizabeth Dwoskin | Bloomberg BusinessWeek | February 4, 2013

Taking the podium in the U.S. Department of State’s Ben Franklin Room one last time before stepping down on Feb. 1, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton thanked a lot of people, offered reminiscences, and announced a flurry of last-minute programs.[...] One of those new programs, the Alliance for an Affordable Internet, barely got a mention in Clinton’s speech. But it merits attention. Read More »

Open Source Summit v3.0: Communities

Nick Skytland | open.NASA | June 18, 2013

Over the past few years, we have been working hard at NASA to modernize the way we approach software development. Open Source is a critical component to our strategy. In 2011, we started a conversation around open source in government [...]. Read More »

State Department promotes open access to educational materials in Arabic

Kedar Pavgi | Nextgov | January 28, 2013

The State Department on Monday launched the Open Book Project, an initiative designed to promote and create open-access Arabic language educational resources. Read More »

Upcoming Open Source Summit sponsored by NASA, VA, and State Department

Press Release | NASA, Veteran Affairs Innovation Initiative, State Department | June 5, 2012

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.

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

Event Details

Type:

Conference

Date:

June 20, 2012 - 9:00am - June 21, 2012 - 5:00pm

Link:

Open Source Summit

Location:

University of Maryland Business School

7621 Mowatt Lane

College Park, MD 20742

United States

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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.