Following on last year's Open Source Summit, hosted by NASA, we've broadened our planning team to include the State Dept and the Veteran's Administration.

Purpose of the event: Convene the government open source community, move beyond the discussion of whether open source is secure or capable enough, and engage in practical discussions about how to do it right.

This Summit is more workshop than presentation. Bring your problems to find solutions. Bring your experiences to share. Bring your passion for open source and find a community.

Agenda

Day One: Open Sourcing From Inside Government

8:00am Doors Open 9:00am Introduction Morning: Context Setting and Networking 9:10am Opening Keynote
Chris Vein, US Deputy CTO for Government Innovation 9:30am Structured Networking 10:30am

Speakers: Providing inside government perspectives on open source software:

• Use - Jason Hoekstra, Dept of Education
• Development - Chris A. Mattmann, Ph.D., Senior Computer Scientist, NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory
• Release - Chris Musialek, GSA
• Community Building - Gray Brooks, FCC

11:00am Deep Discussions On How To Use, Develop, Release, Build Community 12:00pm Lunch How to Navigate Technical and Legal Hurdles 1:00pm

Speakers: Presentations concerning the following questions:

• How do you start an open source project from scratch?
• How do you release an already existing software project?
• Legal hurdles
• Where to host the project
• Tools, infrastructure, hosting, best practices

• "You Can’t Buy That! Bureaucracy Meets Open Source"
  Chris Bronk, Senior Advisor, Office of eDiplomacy, Dept. of State
• “The Equipment of Contribution”
  Chris Johnson, Director of Engineering, Phase2 Technologies
• "Open Source Software (OSS) -- Legal Issues and Best Practices for Federal Agencies."
  Vicki E. Allums, Associate General Counsel for Intellectual Property, Defense Information Systems Agency, Department of Defense
• Leslie Power, Development Manager (Contractor, 5AM Solutions/CGI), CONNECT Product Team (within the Federal Health Architecture (FHA) in the Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT (ONC))

2:00pm Deep Discussions on Technical and Legal Hurdles 4:30pm Closing 5:00pm End of Day

Day Two: Collaborating Beyond the Walls of Government

8:00am Doors Open 9:00am Welcome back Building and Managing Community 9:30am

Speakers

• Jim Jagielski, Apache Software Foundation
• Mike Milinkovich, Executive Director, Eclipse Foundation
• Mike O'Neill, Veteran's Administration (OSEHRA)
• Tina Coleman, Ozone Widget Framework (by DISA)
• Deb Bryant, Director, Open Source Initiative

10:00am Deep Discussions on Building and Managing Community 12:00pm Lunch Everything Else 1:00pm Speakers 1:30pm Deep Discussions 4:30pm Closing 5:00pm Event ends

Directions

This location can be reached by public transport and requires taking the free and frequent University of Maryland bus. See this link for full details: http://bit.ly/LP0jFO

Additional Info

The event will be facilitated by Wayne Moses Burke of the Open Forum Foundation and will provide high energy, relevant speakers to educate the participants interspersed with deep discussions to ensure that everyone gets questions answered and information that is directly relevant to their interests and needs.