[Solar-general] Software Repository: How and where it begun & one contact.

[Gerardo Díaz]

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Encontré esto también. Al final hace referencia a quién tienen
que contactar los gobiernos que quieran participar de la iniciativa,
deben contactar a Daniel Greenwood, Director of the MIT E-Commerce
Architecture Program and coordinator del proyecto para la "Commonwealth
of Massachusetts", email: opensource en civics.com

Creo que eso es todo,

Saludos
Gerardo Díaz

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~    THE PUBLIC SECTOR OPEN SOURCE PROJECT

The Public Sector Open Source Project, convened and sponsored by the
Commonwealth of Massachusetts in collaboration with the Massachusetts
Institute of Technology, will facilitate and loosely organize the
sharing of software owned and developed by or for the public sector.
This project will commence with a meeting held in Cambridge, Mass. on
December 9th, 2003, of individuals from U.S. state and municipal
governments who are interested in discussing and creating a relatively
informal collaboration among public sector entities.

The initiative is premised upon the need for taxpayer information
technology dollars within and across public sector entities to be used
frugally, and the economic and engineering desirability of pursuing
reusable software code. For example, code sharing has the potential to
ease application interoperability issues across jurisdictions. The
momentum behind use and development of open source software within
governments domestically and abroad is considerable. In the IT sector in
general, open source promises to transform the way software is designed,
sold and supported.

Public entities invest significant funds annually in software
development. Some of the code developed by these entities is owned
entirely by them. At the same time, all these entities are in the same
"business" -supporting licensing, permitting, voting, corporations
administration, public safety, health and welfare programs and
education. Public entities could save a considerable amount of the money
that they now spend on software development by sharing with each other
source code that they own.

To maximize the benefits of public sector code sharing, public entities
should license their code to one another under "open source" licenses
permitting licensees to access and modify the source code. The licenses
should also require that all modifications and enhancements to the code
be made available for free to all public entities participating in the
open source project. One of the first tasks for the collaborative will
be to review the potential open source licenses (such as Mozilla and
GPL) to determine a small subset that will meet members' needs. An
online web based code repository of some kind will be selected for this
initiative. The repository, along the lines of www.sourceforge.net, will
facilitate the initiative by making a forum available for participating
governments to post information about new open source code they are
contributing to the community and to facilitate other collaboration.

During the next month, Massachusetts will continue to reach out to state
and local governments to identify a core group of interested
participants in the MIT kick-off meeting and for potential membership in
this emerging initiative. It is envisioned that no entity will be in
sole control of this project, though the government of Massachusetts and
MIT are initial organizers. It is also envisioned that the repository
will not remain under the dominion of any single party, but will be
subject to the will of members of this collaborative. These and other
organizational topics will be addressed in a Memorandum of Understanding
developed by and agreed to by participants in the collaborative.

For more information on this initiative, and to find out how your
government can participate, please contact Daniel Greenwood, Director of
the MIT E-Commerce Architecture Program and coordinator of this project
for the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, at opensource en civics.com

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