The use of open source software in governments was a popular topic of conversation for bloggers and tech journalists this week. With recent events like the Red Hat Government Symposium, the Military Open Source Working Group meeting and Open Source EHR Summit and Workshop, it’s easy to see why discussions got sparked about U.S. agencies utilizing OSS. Yet, talk of open source in Asian and European governments has also been filling the blogosphere lately.
Read more on the growing use of OSS in global governments and other recent open source news:
- “US Gov’t Agencies Embrace Collaborative Software Development,” was published by Grant Gross on ComputerWorld, discussing how the Department of Defense and other government agencies are looking to engage with more developer communities.
- Luis Ibanez shared highlights from the Military Open Source Working Group meeting in the opensource.com blog, “Agility of Open Source Software Proves Good Fit for U.S. Military.”
- “UK Gov Open Source Should Follow Utah, USA” was Adrian Bridgwater’s ComputerWeekly blog on public sector examples the UK government should be following.
- Choice and cost-effectiveness were cited as main reasons for government agencies in Asia utilizing open source software, in Jamie Yap’s ZDNet article, “Asia Govts Welcome OSS Benefits.”
- Also on ZDNet, Nick Heath covered the Raspberry Pi Foundation’s open source release of its graphics libraries in the article, “Raspberry Pi Primed for New OS After Drivers are Fully open Sourced.”
- In The H article, “Dell Donates Concept ARM Server to the ASF,” Fabian Scherschel reported on Dell handing over an ARM-based server to the Apache Software Foundation for developers to build and test software on.
- Stacey Higginbotham covered the new open source in-memory database offering speedy data analytics, in the GigaOM article, “Metamarkets Open Sources Druid, Its In-Memory Database.”
