Government Open Source Initiatives

• The Center of Open Source & Government
  The Center of Open Source & Government works with governments around the world on Open Source policy and strategy. A main activity of the Center is the "Open Source in Government" Conference Series. The Conference Series provides an unrivalled open platform in which to discuss and to exchange views on government policy alternatives with regards to Open Source Software. They are high-level, international events covering the topic of Open Source software, interoperability and open standards in the government sphere. Researchers and developers, local, regional, national and international users and stakeholders, as well as management experts and industry attend.
• CORE.GOV, the Component Organization and Registration Environment --your government source for business process and technical components. CORE.GOV is the place to search for and locate a specific component that meets your needs, or to find components you can customize to meet your unique requirements. You can also recommend components for inclusion in CORE.GOV.
• Open Source Software Institute
  The Open-Source Software Institute (OSSI) is a non-profit (501 c 6) organization comprised of corporate, government and academic representatives whose mission is to promote the development and implementation of open-source software solutions within U.S. Federal and State government agencies and academic entities.

• Linux In Government: Interoperability —Linux Journal, June 4, 2004 Since August 2003, we have seen significant Linux adoption taking place within many sectors of the US federal government. Major accomplishments include deployment of a large interoperable database project using LAMP, Justice Department XML standards, establishment of a Government Open Source Community sponsored by the Federal Enterprise Architecture (FEA), and organization of the Government Open Code Collaborative.

  Open Government Interoperability Home
  The lack of interoperability creates difficult purchase decisions for government technology coordinators who procure administrative and management applications. Many coordinators experience an increase in technical support problems from maintaining numerous proprietary systems. Do they invest more money in their aging, installed-base systems? Or invest in newer, more efficient systems? The Open Government Interoperability addresses these issues.
• Project Leopard Over 3500 counties of more than 85,000 local governments exist in the United States and they each use approximately 150 database-driven business processes. Our goals would allow significant cost savings by eliminating non-standards based sites. A single standard would cut the costs to taxpayers and constituents and allows for more information sharing through XML based delivery.
• Government Forge
  Home of the Open Government Interoperability
• SchoolForge
  Working together to unleash the power of open source tools in education
• Open Source in eGov
  Government Online International Network (GOL-IN)