openAdmin
07-23-2009, 05:29 AM
Some 70 companies, academic institutions, communities and industry leaders have joined forces to form a coalition called “Open Source of America” to promote open source software in the U.S. Federal Government bodies. Their campaign states,
“The mission of OSA is to educate decision makers in the US Federal government about the advantages of using free and open source software; to encourage the Federal agencies to give equal priority to procuring free and open source software in all of their procurement decisions; and generally provide an effective voice to the US Federal government on behalf of the open source software community, private industry, academia, and other non-profits.”
Founding members include Red Hat, Sun, Sugar CRM, Mozilla, Novell and Oracle . Registration is open to all individuals. To register or learn more about the coalition, visit www.opensourceforamerica.org (http://www.opensourceforamerica.org/) and follow the movement on Twitter at https://twitter.com/OpenSourceGov (https://twitter.com/OpenSourceGov).
“The mission of OSA is to educate decision makers in the US Federal government about the advantages of using free and open source software; to encourage the Federal agencies to give equal priority to procuring free and open source software in all of their procurement decisions; and generally provide an effective voice to the US Federal government on behalf of the open source software community, private industry, academia, and other non-profits.”
Founding members include Red Hat, Sun, Sugar CRM, Mozilla, Novell and Oracle . Registration is open to all individuals. To register or learn more about the coalition, visit www.opensourceforamerica.org (http://www.opensourceforamerica.org/) and follow the movement on Twitter at https://twitter.com/OpenSourceGov (https://twitter.com/OpenSourceGov).