[Infrastructure] new working groups

[Melanie Chernoff]

Hi all,

Pls see email below.  Ricardo looked at our list of groups, but really wants to do something that's not limited to a particular area [eg healthcare, education].  Instead, he'd like a group that brings Federal IT professionals together from different depts/agencies so they can create consistent OSS policies and practices.  He's willing to lead it.  This sounds like a group with a lot of potential to really change government.  But, I don't know that we can (or would want to) limit the group to just gov't employees.  

But this brings up the question that I don't know what our process is to approve a group.  Since each new group means additional wiki page, mailing list, etc, I don't know that we'll want to accept every new workgroup that's proposed.    

Curious as to others' thoughts on (1) this proposed group, and (2) if we should develop some sort of criteria that we post on the website for ppl that want to form their own group.

--mel

----- "Ricardo T Sanchez" <SanchezRT at gao.gov> wrote:

| Hi Melanie,
| 
| Thank you for the response.  I am very interested in leading a Federal
| IT Prof. working group.  I am going to be working within DHS in a
| similar manner.  I already have a few items off the top of my head for
| action items such as adding open source software to EA models,
| portable security documentation and wiki documentation for OS
| resources.
| 
| Please send any documentation or templates along and I'll get started
| ASAP or call (contact info below.)  
| 
| --Ricardo
| 
| Ricardo T. Sanchez, Esq. | Analyst | Strategic Issues | Engagement
| 450536
| sanchezrt at gao.gov | O (202) 512-5030 | BB (202) 487-4995 | F (202)
| 512-3774
| 
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Melanie Chernoff
Public Policy Manager
Red Hat, Inc.
(919) 754-4723