CPBR3 - Open Source for America
Channel: Campus Party
Date: 2010-02-12

Simon Phipps, Ean Schuessler

With the election of Barack Obama the American government has made an abrupt philosophical swing towards transparency and openness. A group of significant Free Software advocates in the USA saw this as an opportunity to accelerate adoption and formed the Open Source For America effort to pursue those goals.

While Free Software has been quietly developing a presence in the US government for years, the new attitude has allowed projects to step out of the shadows and discuss their progress more actively. We will talk about the foundation of OSFA and look at some of the major Open Source initiatives currently underway in the US government.