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Oregon State UniversityOpen Source LabOpen
Source in GovernmentFrom Why to Why Not
Presented to the GIS in Action April 18,
2007Deborah BryantPublic Sector Communities
Manager, OSU Open Source Lab
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OSU Open Source Lab

• Housed at Oregon State University in Corvallis
• 20 staff 8 full time and 12 students
• Located in the Office of Information Technology
• Inception cost reductions
• Maturation pulling together disparate OSU Open
  Source efforts
  
• Success earned international reputation as
  leading Open Source project hosting and support
  environment

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OSLs Activities

• Supports the OSU Mission of Education, Outreach
  and Community Building
  
• Provides managed and collocated hosting of
  not-for-profit Open Source Software projects
  
• Engages in leadership and development of OSS
  projects
  
• Builds community for OSS
• Contributes to the Open IT ecosystem in Oregon
  through its expertise and activities
  
• Public Sector Program

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OSL By the Numbers

• 40 million unique visitors a day
• Hosting 30 OSS projects
• Home to Mozilla, Firefox, Open Office, and Linux
  Kernel Development (Master Kernel)
  
• 420 ROI to University in 2 years (Nutch Search
  Engine)
  
• Donations from Industry YTD
• Real Networks 500,000
• Google 350,000
• Private community donations 200,000
• Plus equipment donations

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Public Sector Program Activities

• Connects people and projects in a growing
  Community
  
• Subject matter expertise
• State CIO Council
• State Data Center
• Open Source Applications
• Development Resources
• Development Models
• Education Community Building
• Government Open Source Conference

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Domestic highlights

• City of Newport News
• California Air Resources Board
• Oregon Department of Transportation

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Egov new OSS based on Plone
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Open Process eGov Consortium

• Shared Software
• Shared Implementations
• Shared Support Contracts
• Collaborative Enhancements
• Shared Best Practices Knowledge Base
• Mutual Aid
• Shared Services
• Evolving and Improving Ecosystem
• nngov.com

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Instances
Differentiator
Products
Maturity
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Perl Jboss Java Server for Adobe and FileNet
Application Servers
OpenOffice JavaMail API Version 1.2
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Collaboration
MySQL jTDS JDBC Driver version 1.2
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DBMS
Apache Axis Web Services Version 1.1 1021
Apache Tomcat Version 4.1 Apache XML Security Ver
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ary Ver 9.5.2/9.5.4 Jakarta Tomcat Connector 1.2
.15 Java API for Servlets Version 2.3.1 Java Run
Time Environment (JRE) 1.4 XML Parser required
by Axis Ver 2.5.0 (Xerces) Eclipse IDE (Java deve
lopment) Gnome Java Development Kit (JDK 1.4.2_0
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Development Tools
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OpenSTA JMagick Version 5.5.7 Q8 JNI API
Integration Service
Linux
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Plus Mainframe Linux Partition
Operating System
FireFox Browser Paint .NET GIMP  Image editing

Thunderbird
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Presentation
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Lessons Learned early entrants

• Oregon Department of Administrative Services
• Help Desk Project
• Commonwealth of MA
• Public Policy with a Big P
• Oregon
• Oregon
• Texas
• Minnesota

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Asterisk Open Source PBXSIP Audio Conferencing
with Recording

• Customer Requirements
• Remote Hearings for Administrative Law Judges
• Recordings of proceedings for disposition
• High availability
• Cost Options
• Proprietary System
• 430,000 for Hardware and Software
• Open Source System
• 11,500 for Hardware
• Staff Time for configuration and testing similar
  for both options
  

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Asterisk Open Source PBXSIP Audio Conferencing
with Recording
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Emerging Projects

• Industry recognizing need for vertical
  applications
  
• Former ODSL CEO starts CSI
• Eclipse community initiates Open Health
  Information Project at OSU
  
• Others My Destination Portal
• Global Open eGOv project out of Stanford

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Getting Started

• The value of Open Source to government IT is not
  the application, its the model.
  
• Network with your peers
• Learn by doing in a managed environment
• Policy, light touch
• Recommended reading
• Succeeding with Open Source by Bernard Golden
• Visit the www.goscon.org for great materials
• Attend GOSCON Oct 15-16 in Portland.

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Thanks!

• Any questions?
• For more information
• Public Sector Communities Manager
  Deborah.Bryant_at_oregonstate.edu
  
• The Lab www.osuosl.org
• The Conference www.goscon.org
• Good definition of OSS terms context
  www.wikipedia.org