"with the proliferation of issues and a scarcity of resources to address them all, leaders inside and outside government are turning to the principles of participation, collaboration, transparency, and efficiency to address the challenges facing our country and the world." - Tim O'Reilly
Steering Committee
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Deborah Bryant Public Sector Communities Manager |
Deborah
Bryant is Public Sector Communities Manager at Oregon State
University's Open Source Lab (OSU OSL), where she creates
collaborations between public, private and academic concerns in
pursuit of the successful adoption of open source technology and
models and is internationally recognized for her expertise. She
directs the annual Government Open Source Conference (GOSCON), the
preeminent event and platform for collaboration amongst government IT
management at all levels of government. She speaks frequently on open source and government collaborative and the use and adoption of open source in government operations. Most recently she facilitated a national round table discussion on behalf of the Department of Homeland Security, gathering state and local public safety practitioners and industry along with senior DHS personnel to consider the use of the collaborative model for information sharing. Bryant's government service included consultation with the Oregon State Legislature during the Year 2000 legislative session and continued at Oregon's Department of Administrative Services for five years where she served as Manager of Enterprise Strategic Planning and Policy in the Office of the State CIO and also as Deputy State CIO. During the Year 2002 legislative session she represented the State's Executive Branch position on proposed Open Source legislation and earned a reputation for an open, constructive approach to working with diverse and often conflicting views. Her interest in open source software and its implication for government is also reflected in her civic involvement; she serves as a Board Director for DemocracyLab.org; as an Advisor for the Open Source Digital Voting Foundation (OSDV.org); and on the Oregon Statewide Distance Learning Advisory Council. She is also an elected official, serving as Commissioner in a local special services district and is known for her advocacy of transparency in government. Prior to entering the public sector, she held management positions in several emerging technology areas; parallel and high-speed computing and commercialized internet and web applications in the 80s, commercial wide area networks, advanced telecommunications and data/voice convergence in the 90s. |
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Alan Clark Strategic Advisor for Industry Initiatives & Standards |
Alan Clark focuses on Industry Initiatives and Emerging Standards for Novell. To facilitate the awareness and adoption of open source and open standards, Clark participates on several industry forum board of directors, steering committees, technical committees and work groups. With 20+ years of experience as a Software Engineer and Engineering Management, a principal portion of Clark's career has been devoted to the research and development of operating systems and distributed multi-platform server services. His experience is with file systems, Directory Services, LDAP Services, Object Databases, Security, Developer Interfaces, Web Services, Network Protocols and more. |
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Chris DiBona |
Chris DiBona is the open source and public sector programs manager at Mountain View, CA based Google. His team oversees license compliance and supports the open source developer community through programs such as the Google Summer of Code
and through the release of open source software projects and patches.
In the public sector space, he looks after Google Moderator, the
polling locations API. Additionally, he is on the board of Our Good
Works, a non-profit that looks after the volunteer matching website Allforgood.org. DiBona is an internationally known advocate of open source software and related methodologies. He occasionally appears on the This Week in Tech and Cranky Geeks podcasts. He is a visiting scholar at the MIT Sloan School of Management and has a masters in software engineering from Carnegie Mellon University. Additionally, he serves on the advisory board of imeem, a San Francisco, CA based social networking firm. |
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Chris Hankin Sr Dir. Federal Government Affairs |
Chris
Hankin has been the director of Federal Affairs for Sun Microsystems
since December 1999. In this capacity he heads Sun's Government
Affairs office in Washington, DC. He has been active on a wide
variety of issues, including open source and standards advocacy,
cybersecurity, eco sustainability, reduction of international trade
barriers, and corporate governance.
Hankin has significant experience with the legislative and executive branches Before arriving at Sun, he served for three years as director of Government Affairs, at NCR Corp., a business technologies company. From 1981-1988 he worked on international trade and congressional affairs for the US Department of Labor, serving on the US negotiation team for the Canada Free Trade Agreement. He then spent six years at the US State Department as the deputy assistant Secretary of State and senior advisor for International Trade Controls. While there, he developed and managed US policy on sensitive high-tech trade with former Warsaw Pact countries and China, and led US efforts to ensure international enforcement of the UN sanctions of Iraq and Serbia. From 1995-1997, Hankin staffed the Subcommittee on International Economic Policy and Trade for the House of Representatives' Committee on International Relations. He worked on the trade promotion, international agreements on telecommunications, and related trade policy issues. |
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Tom Rabon Executive Vice President of Corporate Affairs |
Tom Rabon brings more than 25 years of experience working in government
and the private sector to lead Red Hat's government affairs and
public policy initiatives. As Executive Vice President of Corporate
Affairs he leads the worldwide team representing Red Hat's interests
before global governments. Rabon worked extensively with governments around the world to create market opportunities in emerging markets such as China and South America. He served as vice president of Global Government Affairs at Lucent Technologies for six years. He led a team of government professionals in the US and other countries who were responsible for representation of Lucent with all local, state, federal, and international governments. Prior to that, he spent 13 years as a state vice president of Law and Government Affairs at AT&T, and also served as a Member of the House of Representatives of the North Carolina State Legislature. Rabon received a BA in political science from the University of North Carolina and has completed various executive management programs including the Program for Senior Executives of State and Local Government at Harvard University. |
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John Scott Director of Open Source Software & Integration |
John
Scott is the Director of Open Source Software & Integration at
Mercury Federal Systems, Inc. with deep expertise in engineered
systems and bridging the gap between decision-makers, scientists and
engineers to develop policies for acquiring and deploying new
technologies in the Department of Defense and US Government. He has
focused his career on investigating and developing ideas for how
large organizations design, construct and evolve extremely complex
systems to meet National Security needs. Scott lead the Defense Department’s Open Technology Development (OTD) initiative, sponsored by the Office of Secretary of Defense Advanced Systems & Concepts. OTD lays the groundwork for streamlined adoption of open source methodologies within DoD, which includes both the adoption of private sector open source software and the formation of internal communities of interest around DoD systems, including classified systems. The impact of these shifts in policy and business process include not only increased agility for the U.S. military, but also an enhanced ability to securely share capabilities with allies and bring both data and technology to bear in disaster response and humanitarian assistance operations. Previous work as a consultant to DoD includes the development of new design and testing methodologies for military networks, and the development of complex systems modeling applications for distributed systems. In tandem with his work for OSD, Scott serves as the chairman of the National Defense Industrial Association’s Command, Control, Communications and Computers (C4) division and is a member of the Editorial Board of the DoD SoftwareTech Journal. |
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John Weathersby Founder and Executive Director |
John
Weathersby is the founder and executive director of the Open Source
Software Institute, a U.S.-based non-profit organization whose
mission is to promote adoption of open source software solutions
within government IT environments. Weathersby currently serves as an adviser on open source issues to a number of Federal government entities including the Department of Homeland Security, Science and Technology Directorate, the Office of the Secretary of Defense (OSD), the Defense Information Systems Agency (DISA), and the Department of the Navy. He also serves as an adviser for technology to The University of Southern Mississippi's Office of Technology and Economic Development. Weathersby is a member of the International Advisory Panel for Enterprise Open Source Magazine and a founding executive board member of the National Association of Call Centers (NACC). |
