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Wednesday, 07 March 2012 12:38 |
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Open Source Software Industry Day
Individual Registration: CLOSING SOON!
Sponsor Table Registration: SOLD OUT!
On Wednesday, May 30, 2012, and the Open Source Software Institute (OSSI) will host an Open Source Software Industry Day conference in conjunction with the National Security Agency (NSA) at the Johns Hopkins University APL Kossiakoff Conference Center in Laurel, Maryland.
The event will feature speakers from the NSA as well as industry and open source development community experts. Currently, there are more than 30 breakout sessions scheduled to address issues of technology development, collaboration, security, use and maintenance of open source software in the areas of information assurance and security practices, embedded and mobile systems, cloud sourcing and large-data distribution, system analytics and bidirectional technology transfer.
The day-long, unclassified event is open to the public, however, proof of US citizenship is required to attend. Attendee price for non-government attendees is only $35. There is no charge for government employees. Coffee and a box lunch will be served at the event. An honor basket will be available for contributions by government employees to cover food and beverage. The doors will open at 0730 and final sessions will end at 1700.
Due to the popularity of subject matter and low attendee fee, participation will limited to the first 500 attendees who register.
More Information
List of Breakout Sessions
Partial Attendee List
Participating and Attending Organizations
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Thursday, 17 May 2012 07:55 |
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Howard Schmidt, the White House cybersecurity coordinator since January 2010, will step down as President Obama's top IT security adviser at the end of the month, the White House says.
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Monday, 14 May 2012 08:48 |
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"The reality is agencies have less money to spend, and they will have less money in the future," said Alan Chvotkin, executive vice president of the Professional Services Council. "They're all trying to find ways to get the same or more by spending less."
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Tuesday, 08 May 2012 14:21 |
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Last week’s Defense Daily Cyber-Security Summit in Washington drew participants from industry and government agencies including the intelligence community (I could tell you, but…), NRC, TSA and the DoD. The panel on which I spoke discussed “open security” and included representatives from HP’s Fortify group and experts from NSA and Homeland Security. The conclusions confirmed my belief that it’s much more about how you manage the software than whether it is open source or proprietary.
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Saturday, 28 April 2012 11:51 |
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The next stage in technology will result from collaboration, not competition, according to many who support the concepts behind the open source movement. Once the purview of IT outliers, open source has now infiltrated just about every aspect of technology and according to a recent survey, is driving the innovation that will define tomorrow's business applications.
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