Is open source good for America? A group of over 70 leading open source vendors thinks so, and they've now formed an effort to lobby Washington and to promote open source for government use. The Open Source for America coalition is made up of over 50 member groups including Red Hat, Linux Foundation, Oracle, Sun, Novell,Google, AMD, Mozilla and other key open source vendors.

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Open source scored a victory at the White House this week with the government’s choice to switch to Drupal for whitehouse.gov.

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Over the weekend, the White House switched from its Bush-era closed source content management system (CMS) to the popular Drupal open source platform. The project reflects Drupal's growing acceptance with more sophisticated web operations and the U.S. government's inclination to leverage open source software.

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A lobbying group has been launched by more than 70 companies, academic institutions, and communities, to promote open source software as a "transparent and cost-effective option" for U.S. government agencies. "Open Source for America" counts AMD, Canonical, Google, Novell, Oracle, and Red Hat among its members.

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This landscaping paper discusses open source approaches for R&D for neglected diseases, and their potential to lower costs and R&D time frames, increase collaboration, and build a knowledge commons. The paper describes existing initiatives and debates, and suggests how readers and the global health community might better make use of open source approaches.

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Open Source for America has published a Federal Open Technology Report Card that "evaluates key indicators of open government and open technologies developed through online crowd sourcing and refined metrics outlined by the OSFA leadership committee." The report card includes questions and responses regarding public budgets, use of social media, and open source technology practices.

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The mission of OSA is to educate decision makers in the U.S. 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 U.S. Federal government on behalf of the open source software community, private industry, academia, and other non-profits.

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For years now the health care industry has been in search of a uniform, unified, interchangeable health record format that would allow different systems and different providers to share and use information seamlessly....  Now the Veterans Administration is enlisting the help of open source to make their VistA format that universal format.

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The US Department of Defense is awash in digital images and videos taken by a variety of sources including satellites, manned airplanes and unmanned drones. Going through all of that imagery by hand would take untold resources that the DoD just doesn’t have. Instead the DoD has turned to a computer vision program to help sort through the imagery. The programs they use are supplied by Kitware and get ready for this – are open source!

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Open Source for America has released their study of which departments in the federal government are most open source aware and friendly. The results may surprise you.

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