[acquisitions-wg] Five large projects for Open Source for America

[Andy Oram]

I'm glad you're on the list and can keep us informed of EU projects, David. I know that EU countries (or at least, scattered projects in those countries) are much further along than the US in using open source and open formats. I'm in touch with a few activists and they've written some material for O'Reilly. (I should mention, and perhaps put in a .sig, that I'm just representing myself on this list, not the O'Reilly company.)

The cloud computing site at the GSA looks like a good step forward, and more comprehensive than I had originally expected. It covers virtualization, not just SaaS solutions such as Salesforce.com. Most of the solutions on the site, I think, are proprietary software, but it would be possible to list free software there.

Andy

----- Original Message -----
From: "David López" <davidlopezberzosa at googlemail.com>
To: "Andy Oram" <andyo at oreilly.com>
Cc: acquisitions-wg at opensourceforamerica.org
Sent: Saturday, October 31, 2009 7:26:59 AM GMT -05:00 US/Canada Eastern
Subject: Re: [acquisitions-wg] Five large projects for Open Source for America

Hi Andy, I am David López, a spanish lecturer/researcher interested in FLOSS-based business models. 


I find your first proposal quite related to the efforts that the European Union and many countries are adopting to enforce service and data interoperability: 


http://ec.europa.eu/idabc/ 


for instance in Germany, UK, France and Spain (among others) there exist administrative procedures to define which standards and technologies are compliant for any given scenario. 


With regards to project number 4 I have been informed of an initiative, sponsored by the USA administration, to provision cloud-based eGovernment services: 


https://www.apps.gov/cloud/advantage/main/start_page.do 

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