Politics & Elections Blog: Open Source report from Gov 2.0

Open Source report from Gov 2.0

Thursday, September 17, 2009

(Cross-posted from Google's Open Source Blog)Gov 2.0 Summit

Paul Rademacher, Google and AllForGood.org, Brian Behlendorf, White House Consultant and Richard Lin, CodeforAmerica.orgvideo-archivedAneesh ChopraVivek KundraApps for Democracy

Beth Noveck provided the most comprehensive picture of what progress had been made by the new administration and its policy road map.

Best of Show for Crowd-Rallying: Carl Malamud discussed the need to make judiciary information — data and hearings — truly public in a day where “public” means “on the Internet.” In his speech designed in part for an audience not in the room, his closing comment asserted government operating systems should be Open Sourced brought the crowd to resounding applause.

Favorite Projects: Anything visualized — and most frequently enabled by Open Source.

Killer App: All things Geo-spatial.

Significant Announcement: The General Services Administration (GSA) will begin experimenting with the use of OpenID to manage identity on government web sites.

David Recordon, OpenID Foundation Board of Directors
TwitterGovLoopOpen Government Directive
Guest post by Deb Bryant, Public Sector Communities Manager, Oregon State University Open Source Lab and Producer, Government Open Source Conference