International Lunch Keynote | Open in Oregon
International Lunch Keynote | Open in Oregon
What is the Open Source phenomenon in Oregon that draws visitors – companies, researchers, educators, trade delegations and the media - from around the world to visit and what are they learning?
The state of Oregon has earned a reputation for open source innovation. Part of this relates to the clustering of various open source individuals and groups. The Open Source Lab at Oregon State University was created just over four years ago to help accelerate the adoption of open source software across the globe and aid the open source community. Prior to the OSL many of the worlds best known community projects did not have stable infrastructure and had poor software distribution channels. OSL provides industrial strength hosting, system’s administration and/or distribution of code for non-profit projects such as: the Linux Kernel, Debian, Gentoo Linux, OpenOffice, Handhelds.Org, Drupal, LinuxChix, and Apache and Plone. The Firefox browser was homed at the OSL until it could be supported fully by Mozilla. During those years the OSL released over 200 million copies.
Curt Pederson, Vice Provost for Information Services & Chief Information Officer at Oregon State University and Government Open Source Conference chair, shares the Oregon story and also his perspective as a former state government chief information officer on the value of open collaboration to government.
<< Back to Sessions The state of Oregon has earned a reputation for open source innovation. Part of this relates to the clustering of various open source individuals and groups. The Open Source Lab at Oregon State University was created just over four years ago to help accelerate the adoption of open source software across the globe and aid the open source community. Prior to the OSL many of the worlds best known community projects did not have stable infrastructure and had poor software distribution channels. OSL provides industrial strength hosting, system’s administration and/or distribution of code for non-profit projects such as: the Linux Kernel, Debian, Gentoo Linux, OpenOffice, Handhelds.Org, Drupal, LinuxChix, and Apache and Plone. The Firefox browser was homed at the OSL until it could be supported fully by Mozilla. During those years the OSL released over 200 million copies.
Curt Pederson, Vice Provost for Information Services & Chief Information Officer at Oregon State University and Government Open Source Conference chair, shares the Oregon story and also his perspective as a former state government chief information officer on the value of open collaboration to government.