The Prime Minister's office has put its weight behind a drive to make the government's open source policy overcome the obstacles that have seen it flounder for the last two years. Word of Prime Minister Cameron's intervention came as the Cabinet Office unveiled a raft of measures to designed to fulfil the coalition government's policy commitment to "create a level playing field for open source".

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Modern drug discovery requires access to machine-understandable data that can be searched, retrieved, and subsequently analyzed using a wide array of analytical software and services.  In this presentation, I will demonstrate the prediction of chemical toxicity through a set of SADI-compliant semantic web services[...]

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To celebrate a year of championing the use of open source software in the U.S. government, Open Source For America has created an awards program to recognize those who took up the challenge. The Open Source Awards Program will recognize people and projects in three categories: individuals, projects and deployment.

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[Luke Kanies] was 29 when he created an open source software tool called Puppet for managing data centers and other big computer networks. His project took off, winning adoption from a community of like-minded enthusiasts who deployed it at Twitter, Google, the New York Stock Exchange and many other organizations.

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Some of the world’s largest technology companies have banded together in a bid to push open-source software on the United States government. They’ve formed a group called Open Source for America, which seeks to make sure that government agencies at least consider open-source software as an option in their buying decisions.

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Several open-source software companies and many other allies have banded together in a consortium called Open Source for America to try to persuade the U.S. government to use more of the collaboratively developed software, to participate in its development, and help its practitioners work with the government better.

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Advocates who helped shape a major US government department's policy paper on using open-source in IT projects are stepping up their lobby.  Open Source for America plans to push for clear statements on the rules around using open source in government IT across a number of federal departments next year.

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We analyze alternative licensing and software development models, as well as the role of standards. We describe how licensing affects development. We argue for the superiority of open source licensing to promote safer, more effective health care information systems. We claim that open source licensing in health care information systems is essential to rational procurement strategy.

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Billions of dollars and people hours are spent each year to lobby US politicians over legislation and lucrative government contracts. Telcos, hardware, and closed-source software companies are not strangers to this game. Now Linux and open-source are getting their act together. Seventy open-source companies and organizations have established Open Source for America.

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One concept for accelerating the development of drugs for neglected diseases is application of the “open source” innovation model which originated the software industry.  This model is based on easy access to source code, distributed work among unaffiliated programmers, and rights to use and sell derivative products to produce usable and useful programs quickly and at low-cost (c.f., Open Source Initiative). 

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