<html><head><base href="x-msg://120/"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">In case you aren't already aware of the OSFA...<br><div><br><div>Begin forwarded message:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px;"><span style="font-family:'Helvetica'; font-size:medium; color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 1);"><b>From: </b></span><span style="font-family:'Helvetica'; font-size:medium;">"General announcement list (low traffic)" <<a href="mailto:osa-announce@opensourceforamerica.org">osa-announce@opensourceforamerica.org</a>><br></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px;"><span style="font-family:'Helvetica'; font-size:medium; color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 1);"><b>Date: </b></span><span style="font-family:'Helvetica'; font-size:medium;">August 22, 2011 11:01:20 AM PDT<br></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px;"><span style="font-family:'Helvetica'; font-size:medium; color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 1);"><b>To: </b></span><span style="font-family:'Helvetica'; font-size:medium;"><a href="mailto:osa-announce@opensourceforamerica.org">osa-announce@opensourceforamerica.org</a><br></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px;"><span style="font-family:'Helvetica'; font-size:medium; color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 1);"><b>Subject: </b></span><span style="font-family:'Helvetica'; font-size:medium;"><b>[OSA-Announce] Open Source for America Newsletter</b><br></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px;"><span style="font-family:'Helvetica'; font-size:medium; color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 1);"><b>Reply-To: </b></span><span style="font-family:'Helvetica'; font-size:medium;"><a href="mailto:no-reply@opensourceforamerica.org">no-reply@opensourceforamerica.org</a><br></span></div><br><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; font-family: Helvetica; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; font-size: medium; "><div><p style="margin-bottom: 0.08in; "><font face="Liberation Sans, sans-serif" size="4"><u><b>OSFA 2<sup>nd</sup><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Annual Awards</b></u></font></p><p style="margin-bottom: 0.08in; font-weight: normal; "><font face="Liberation Sans, sans-serif" size="4"><span style="font-style: normal; ">OSFA recently celebrated its second anniversary, and once again we will recognize the individuals, projects and deployments that support our missio</span><span style="font-style: normal; ">n to encourage free and open source software in the US government. Stay tuned to find out how you can nominate your favorite person or project who has contributed to open source adoption in government! We'll send out an email later this week with more details.</span></font></p><p style="margin-bottom: 0in; font-style: normal; "><font size="4"><br></font></p><pre class="western" style="font-family: 'Liberation Mono', monospace; "><font face="Liberation Sans, sans-serif" size="4"><a href="http://opensourceforamerica.org/"><u><b>New OSFA website </b></u></a>– The new site has launched! <a href="http://opensourceforamerica.org/register">Please visit</a> and create your login to begin contributing today. Major kudos to the <a href="http://opensourceforamerica.org/groups/infrastructure/">Infrastructure group</a> for this extensive project!!</font>
<font face="Liberation Sans, sans-serif" size="4"><u><b><a href="http://opensourceforamerica.org/2011/08/farewell-vivek/">An Open Farewell to Vivek Kundra</a></b></u></font>
<font face="Liberation Sans, sans-serif" size="4">Open Source for America crafted an Open Farewell letter to Vivek Kundra, as a way of thanking him for all he’s done for open source in the Federal government. Add your comments, and we'll make sure he gets your message!</font></pre><p style="margin-bottom: 0.08in; "><font size="4"><br></font></p><pre class="western" style="font-family: 'Liberation Mono', monospace; "><font face="Liberation Sans, sans-serif" size="4"><u><b>OSFA needs volunteers!</b></u></font>
<font face="Liberation Sans, sans-serif" size="4">Open Source for America is a completely volunteer-run organization. Are you a tech person interested in helping support the website? Do you have marketing or PR experience to help us communicate better with press and our membership? Are you a policy wonk who enjoys diving into arcane government procurement rules? If so, we need you! OSFA has various subcommittees, and all of them could use your help. If you're interested in volunteering, or learning more about volunteer opportunities with OSFA, contact Melanie Chernoff at <a href="mailto:melaniechernoff@gmail.com">melaniechernoff@gmail.com</a>.</font></pre><p style="margin-bottom: 0.08in; "><font size="4"><br></font></p><p style="margin-bottom: 0.08in; "><font face="Liberation Sans, sans-serif" size="4"><b>News & Articles:</b></font></p><pre class="western" style="font-family: 'Liberation Mono', monospace; "><font face="Liberation Sans, sans-serif" size="4"><a href="http://mil-oss.org/resources/books/open-technology-development"><b>Open Technology Development: Lessons Learned & Best Practices for Military Software</b></a></font></pre><p style="margin-bottom: 0.08in; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; "><font size="4">The purpose of this document is to help U.S. government personnel and contractors implement open technology development (OTD) for software within government projects, particularly in defense.</font></p><p style="margin-bottom: 0.08in; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; "><font size="4">OTD is an approach to software/system development in which developers in different military, federal, commercial and possibly public organizations can collaboratively develop and maintain software or a system in a decentralized fashion. OTD depends on open standards and interfaces, open source software and designs, collaborative and distributed online tools, and technological agility.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://mil-oss.org/resources/books/open-technology-development">Download the full report</a></font></p><pre class="western" style="font-family: 'Liberation Mono', monospace; "><font face="Liberation Sans, sans-serif" size="4"><u><b><a href="http://fcw.com/articles/2011/06/22/va-selects-small-biz-contractor-as-custodial-agent-for-vista.aspx">The </a><a href="http://fcw.com/articles/2011/06/22/va-selects-small-biz-contractor-as-custodial-agent-for-vista.aspx">VA </a><a href="http://fcw.com/articles/2011/06/22/va-selects-small-biz-contractor-as-custodial-agent-for-vista.aspx">A</a><a href="http://fcw.com/articles/2011/06/22/va-selects-small-biz-contractor-as-custodial-agent-for-vista.aspx">wards</a><a href="http://fcw.com/articles/2011/06/22/va-selects-small-biz-contractor-as-custodial-agent-for-vista.aspx"> Contract for VistA Custodial Age</a><a href="http://fcw.com/articles/2011/06/22/va-selects-small-biz-contractor-as-custodial-agent-for-vista.aspx">nt</a></b></u></font>
<font face="Liberation Sans, sans-serif" size="4">The Veterans Affairs Department has selected a Reston, Va. small business to be the custodial agent managing open-source efforts to modernize the department's longstanding electronic health record system. ... The custodial agent is expected to play a major role in updating the Veterans Health Information Systems Technology Architecture (VistA), which is written in “MUMPS” computer code, VA officials have said. The agent would manage an open source “ecosystem” of application developers that will be involved in creating open source-coded applications that would either replace or augment portions of VistA. <a href="http://fcw.com/articles/2011/06/22/va-selects-small-biz-contractor-as-custodial-agent-for-vista.aspx">Full article</a></font>
<font face="Liberation Sans, sans-serif" size="4"><b><a href="http://sf.govfresh.com/why-the-next-sf-mayor-needs-to-understand-open-government/">Why the Next SF Mayor Needs to Understand Open Government</a></b></font></pre><h2 class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0.08in; "><font face="Liberation Sans, sans-serif" size="4"><a href="http://www.fcc.gov/blog/contributing-code-back-fcc-govs-open-source-feedback-loop">Contributing Code Back: FCC.gov’s Open-Source Feedback Loop</a></font></h2><p style="margin-bottom: 0.08in; "><font face="Liberation Sans, sans-serif" size="4"><u><b><br></b></u></font></p><p style="margin-bottom: 0.08in; "><font face="Liberation Sans, sans-serif" size="4"><u><b>OSFA events:</b></u></font></p><p style="margin-bottom: 0.08in; "><font face="Liberation Sans, sans-serif" size="4"><a href="http://goscon.org/2011-dc-event">GOSCON – 2011 DC Event</a><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>with<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://www.meritalk.com/2011-innovation-nation-forum.php">Innovation Nation Forum</a></font></p><p style="margin-bottom: 0.08in; "><font face="Liberation Sans, sans-serif" size="4">August 23, 2011 @ DC Convention Center, Washington, DC</font></p><p style="margin-bottom: 0in; "><font face="Liberation Sans, sans-serif" size="4">The 7th annual<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://goscon.org/2011-dc-event">GOSCON</a><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>will be held at the Washington Convention Center collocated with<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://www.meritalk.com/2011-innovation-nation-forum.php">Innovation Nation Forum</a>.<br><br>The August 23rd event ncludes a great lineup of all-agency leadership – from the FCC to the White House, the new Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, NASA, DHS, the States of Oregon and Maryland and more.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br><br>GOSCON Track details:</font></p><p style="margin-bottom: 0in; "><font face="Liberation Sans, sans-serif" size="4"><br>Cost Take Out: Where are the Savings in Open Source?</font></p><p style="margin-bottom: 0in; "><font size="4">•<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></font><font face="Liberation Sans, sans-serif" size="4">Greg Elin, Chief Data Officer, Federal Communications Commission</font></p><p style="margin-bottom: 0in; "><font size="4">•<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></font><font face="Liberation Sans, sans-serif" size="4">Tiffany Smith Licciardi, eDiplomacy, U.S. Department of State</font></p><p style="margin-bottom: 0in; "><font size="4">•<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></font><font face="Liberation Sans, sans-serif" size="4">Dr. David A. Wheeler, Research Staff Member, Institute for Defense Analyses</font></p><p style="margin-bottom: 0in; "><font size="4">•<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></font><font face="Liberation Sans, sans-serif" size="4">Alexander B. Howard, Gov 2.0 Correspondent, O’Reilly Media [Moderator]</font></p><p style="margin-bottom: 0in; "><font size="4"><br></font></p><p style="margin-bottom: 0in; "><font face="Liberation Sans, sans-serif" size="4">Building Outside the Box: Leading Federal Agency Innovators</font></p><p style="margin-bottom: 0in; "><font size="4">•<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></font><font face="Liberation Sans, sans-serif" size="4">Matthew Burton, Office of the CIO, Consumer Financial Protection Bureau</font></p><p style="margin-bottom: 0in; "><font size="4">•<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></font><font face="Liberation Sans, sans-serif" size="4">Scott Goodwin, Chief Information Officer for Space Operations, National Aeronautics and Space Administration</font></p><p style="margin-bottom: 0in; "><font size="4">•<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></font><font face="Liberation Sans, sans-serif" size="4">Dr. Douglas Maughan, Director, Cyber Security Division, Department of Homeland Security Science & Technology Directorate</font></p><p style="margin-bottom: 0in; "><font size="4">•<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></font><font face="Liberation Sans, sans-serif" size="4">Wayne Moses Burke, Executive Director, Open Forum Foundation [Moderator]</font></p><p style="margin-bottom: 0in; "><font size="4"><br></font></p><p style="margin-bottom: 0in; "><font face="Liberation Sans, sans-serif" size="4">Open Source Lessons Learned: What the Feds can Learn from State and Local Gov</font></p><p style="margin-bottom: 0in; "><font size="4">•<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></font><font face="Liberation Sans, sans-serif" size="4">Carolyn Lawson, Chief Information Officer, Oregon Health Authority</font></p><p style="margin-bottom: 0in; "><font size="4">•<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></font><font face="Liberation Sans, sans-serif" size="4">Bryan Sivak, Chief Innovation Office, State of Maryland</font></p><p style="margin-bottom: 0in; "><font size="4">•<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></font><font face="Liberation Sans, sans-serif" size="4">Chris Vein, Executive Officer of the President</font></p><p style="margin-bottom: 0in; "><font size="4">•<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></font><font face="Liberation Sans, sans-serif" size="4">Deborah Bryant, Public Sector Communities Manager, Oregon State University Open Source Lab [moderator]</font></p><p style="margin-bottom: 0.08in; "><font size="4"><br></font></p><p style="margin-bottom: 0.08in; "><font face="Liberation Sans, sans-serif" size="4"><a href="http://mil-oss.org/wg3-overview">Mil-OSS WG3 2011 – Military Open Source Software</a></font></p><p style="margin-bottom: 0.08in; "><font face="Liberation Sans, sans-serif" size="4">August 30 – September 1, 2011 @ GTRI Conference Center, Atlanta, GA</font></p><p style="margin-bottom: 0.08in; "><font size="4"><br></font></p><p style="margin-bottom: 0.08in; "><font face="Liberation Sans, sans-serif" size="4"><a href="http://2011.foss4g.org/">FOSS4G – Free and Open Source Software for Geospatial</a></font></p><p style="margin-bottom: 0.08in; "><font face="Liberation Sans, sans-serif" size="4">September 12-16, 2011 @ Sheraton Denver Downtown, Denver, CO</font></p><p style="margin-bottom: 0.08in; "><font size="4"><br></font></p><p style="margin-bottom: 0.08in; "><font face="Liberation Sans, sans-serif" size="4"><a href="http://fedscoop.com/fedtalks/fedtalks2011/">FedTalks 2011 Conference</a></font></p><p style="margin-bottom: 0.08in; "><font face="Liberation Sans, sans-serif" size="4">October 11, 2011 @ Warner Theatre, Washington, DC</font></p><p style="margin-bottom: 0.08in; "><font face="Liberation Sans, sans-serif" size="4"><b>Featuring OSFA 2</b><sup><b>nd</b></sup><b><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Annual Awards!</b></font></p><p style="margin-bottom: 0.08in; "><font size="4"><br></font></p><p style="margin-bottom: 0.08in; "><font face="Liberation Sans, sans-serif" size="4"><a href="http://www.oscon.com/oscon2011">Past event: July 25-29, 2011, OSCON, Portland, OR</a></font></p><p style="margin-bottom: 0.08in; "><font face="Liberation Sans, sans-serif" size="4">See photos in the<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/opengov/sets/72157627179166361/with/5985271917/">Flickr set</a></font></p><p style="margin-bottom: 0.08in; "><font size="4"><br></font></p><p style="margin-bottom: 0.08in; "><font face="Liberation Sans, sans-serif" size="4">For additional events, please see our Upcoming Events @<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://opensourceforamerica.org/">http://opensourceforamerica.org/</a></font></p><p style="margin-bottom: 0.08in; "><br></p><br>Sent by<br>Melanie Chernoff<br>on behalf of<br>Open Source for America<br>_______________________________________________<br>OSA-announce mailing list<br><a href="mailto:OSA-announce@opensourceforamerica.org">OSA-announce@opensourceforamerica.org</a><br><a href="http://opensourceforamerica.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/osa-announce">http://opensourceforamerica.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/osa-announce</a><br></div></span></blockquote></div><br></body></html>