How successful has
https://www.govcode.org/ been?
"Open Source First: Simply put, any solution developed using taxpayer
dollars should be in the taxpayer’s domain (open source). At GSA, we
believe that all code we developed should be shared under an open
license so others may benefit from it. In addition, we will give
priority to using open source software as we design now solutions"
-- US GSA CIO David Shive
http://gsablogs.gsa.gov/innovation/2014/08/01/our-guiding-principles/
Please see also:
https://github.com/18F/open-source-policy/blob/master/policy.md
and
https://cio.gov/delivering-customer-focused-government-smarter/
It's not all roses. This got taken down:
https://web.archive.org/web/20150529033655/http://www.darpa.mil/opencatalog…
The Foundation can really use some of that stuff, too, e.g.,
"The Broad Operational Language Translation (BOLT) program is aimed at
enabling communication with non-English-speaking populations and
identifying important information in foreign-language sources by: 1)
allowing English-speakers to understand foreign-language sources of
all genres, including chat, messaging and informal conversation; 2)
providing English-speakers the ability to quickly identify targeted
information in foreign-language sources using natural-language
queries; and 3) enabling multi-turn communication in text and speech
with non-English speakers. If successful, BOLT would deliver all
capabilities free from domain or genre limitations."
Program Manager: Dr. Boyan Onyshkevych
Contact: boyan.onyshkevych(a)darpa.mil
Should the Foundation mount a campaign to rescue BOLT from whomever
took it down from the DARPA site?
Sincerely,
Jim
On Mon, Apr 11, 2016 at 1:15 PM, Timothy Vollmer
<tvol(a)creativecommons.org> wrote:
FYI here's a comment we submitted on behalf of
Creative Commons.
https://github.com/WhiteHouse/source-code-policy/issues/149
timothy
On Mon, Apr 11, 2016 at 7:02 AM, L.Gelauff <lgelauff(a)gmail.com> wrote:
thanks for the update, peter!
lodewijk
On Mon, Apr 11, 2016 at 3:26 PM, Peter Meyer <peter.meyer(a)wikidc.org>
wrote:
Public policy colleagues: A proposal instructing U.S. federal government
agencies to release some source code as open-source has been issued for
public comment. The core bit is to aim to release 20% of the custom code
they develop, for a three-year pilot period.
The proposal and invitation for public comment is here:
https://sourcecode.cio.gov/
The proposal is 15 pages if viewed as a PDF. It comes from the White
House's Office of Management and Budget (OMB) which can coordinate/instruct
the other agencies.
Comments are invited in a github-issues format:
https://github.com/whitehouse/source-code-policy/issues
This, helpfully, means one can review how other people see the issues of
interest.
Today is the last day for comments. I will be commenting favorably. The
proposal has simmered and struggled for a long time; the main hope is to
move forward with something. Anything. (I used to think it was better for
agencies to decide for themselves, but this didn't work. I have watched for
ten years in horror. So now it may be commanded centrally. So be it.)
I think the key thing to comment is that for the government staff to
officially join in with existing projects like Wikimedia ones is not
difficult and potentially very productive. Whereas, to release own big
unique custom projects is (a) administratively hard, and (b) not broadly
useful, since they aren't part of a previously established open-source
ecology with a known demand for them.
I will be very interested to see the views of others on the comments list
or by email.
-- peter meyer / user:econterms / Wikimedia DC
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