GOSCON DC is a special production of the Government Open Source Conference (GOSCON) designed to meet the needs of senior IT executives of federal agencies and regional state and local government.
GOSCON DC will gather governmental and industry leadership to create an unrivaled cross-industry conversation to explore the issues, experience and business case for open source. The new Open Technology Forum provides an additional opportunity for technical staff to partiicpate and learn and Open Technology solutions.
Now more than ever governments across the world are turning to open source software (OSS) as it impacts the way they procure, resource, collaborate, develop and rapidly deploy information technology to support of their organization's mission and goals.
In the United States, the new administration sets expectations of openness, transparency and accountability and utilizes open source technology as a transformational technology. The US legislature considers open source software policy for public procurement, contracting, health IT.
GOSCON DC • Thursday November 5, 2009
Registration Fees
Public Sector -$49
Corporate - $99
Official Website: http://www.goscon.org
Added by isaac.christoffersen on October 26, 2009