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    Open Source Movement Gets a Lobby

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    Chris Preimesberger
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    October 14, 2005
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      The open source software industry gained a new government lobby Friday with the launch of the National Center for Open Source Policy and Research, introduced during a presentation at the Government Open Source Conference in Portland, Ore.

      The National Center is a non-profit organization promoting the use of open source software solutions within government IT enterprises. NCOSPR will accomplish this, founder and administrator John Weathersby said, by serving as a facilitator and administrator of projects involving government agencies and the open source community.

      The National Center will be administered by the Open Source Software Institute on the campus of the University of Southern Mississippi in Hattiesburg, Miss. It will consist of three components: a National Open Source Resource Center; an academic Open Source Center of Excellence; and an Open Source Public Policy Institute.

      As a resource center, NCOSPRs mandate is to serve the public by helping to identify the “common technical needs” within government agencies and promote the resources, applications and expertise of the IT industry and independent open source development communities to meet these needs, Weathersby said.

      The adoption of open source promotes interoperability, standardization, extension of product life cycle and best business practices, he said. It also provides leverage in acquisition practices that are currently unimagined in the world of proprietary licenses, vendor lock-in and single-use development practices, he added.

      /zimages/3/28571.gifRed Hat launches a Linux security certification program. Click here to read more.

      As an academic center, NCOSPRs mandate is to reach out to the academic community to draft and train the next generation of IT professionals and researchers in order to promote advanced education and economic development.

      As a public policy institute, the center will recruit “experienced and innovative thinkers to help craft development, implementation and acquisition policies that will facilitate the continual adoption and growth of open source within the public sector IT communities,” Weathersby said.

      NCOSPRs administrative offices are located at the USMs main campus and technical offices located at the universitys satellite campus at the John C. Stennis Space Center on the Mississippi Gulf Coast. Additional satellite and affiliate branches will be established on-site at participating government, academic and industry partner locations.

      The National Center will be funded by public grants, public and private donations and through development and support projects performed for participating government entities.

      /zimages/3/28571.gifCheck out eWEEK.coms for the latest open-source news, reviews and analysis.

      Chris Preimesberger
      https://www.eweek.com/author/cpreimesberger/
      Chris J. Preimesberger is Editor Emeritus of eWEEK. In his 16 years and more than 5,000 articles at eWEEK, he distinguished himself in reporting and analysis of the business use of new-gen IT in a variety of sectors, including cloud computing, data center systems, storage, edge systems, security and others. In February 2017 and September 2018, Chris was named among the 250 most influential business journalists in the world (https://richtopia.com/inspirational-people/top-250-business-journalists/) by Richtopia, a UK research firm that used analytics to compile the ranking. He has won several national and regional awards for his work, including a 2011 Folio Award for a profile (https://www.eweek.com/cloud/marc-benioff-trend-seer-and-business-socialist/) of Salesforce founder/CEO Marc Benioff--the only time he has entered the competition. Previously, Chris was a founding editor of both IT Manager's Journal and DevX.com and was managing editor of Software Development magazine. He has been a stringer for the Associated Press since 1983 and resides in Silicon Valley.

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