Open Source Bridge

Excerpt

Description

Government is helping lead open source adoption. One of the biggest growth areas in the public sector is using web technologies to help build communities. Using technologies like Moses, Drupal, Wordpress, Jabber, and others is helping to connect people in government, and governments to one another. Using open source to enable people to form connections and enhance informal communication is a major area where open source is leading within the public sector.

Building communities with both domestica and international organizations has helped me see some of this contribution first-hand. I would like to share my own experience of building a community for the US Department of Defense and showcase some of the contributions we’re making to Drupal and other open source technologies.

Tags

Open Source, government

Speaking experience

Speaker

• Chris Strahl

  Acquia
  • Website: http://acquia.com/
  • Blog: http://lookingglass.drupalgardens.com/
  • Twitter: chrisstrahl

  Biography

  I am a Project Manager at Acquia, a commercial open source company working with Drupal. Most of my clients are large corporations or public-sector defense. Acquia hosts and supports Drupal sites, and also maintains a network of partners to develop and build large-scale websites.

  I’m also active in the Drupal community and was one of the project managers for the Drupal.org redesign. I also assisted in the migration of all of the repositories on drupal.org moving from CVS to Git.

  Sessions

  • * How Governments are Building Communities with Open Source
    • Title: How Governments are Building Communities with Open Source
    • Track: Business
    • Room: B204
    • Time: 2:30 – 3:15pm
    • Excerpt:

      This session will provide examples of major government uses of open source technology, and provide some examples and case-studies of how government is contributing to open source and the web.

    • Speakers: Chris Strahl
  • * Open Source Communities Panel
    • Title: Open Source Communities Panel
    • Track: Culture
    • Room: B302/03
    • Time: 10:00 – 11:45am
    • Excerpt:

      Learn from open source community leaders who work on projects big and small.

    • Speakers: Audrey Eschright, Asheesh Laroia, Noirin Plunkett, Jane Wells, Chris Strahl