Open source and free software: in business, in government

Guest of Honour: Karsten Gerloff, President, Free Software Foundation Europe

This seminar will look at the use and deployment of free and open source software (FOSS) for business and the public sector. The event will look at the positive and negative aspects of adopting FOSS, the challenges it may pose for training and how UK usage compares internationally.

Other confirmed speakers include: Juan Crosby, Senior Associate, CMS Cameron McKenna; Dr Chris Francis, Government Programmes, IBM; Mark Taylor, Chief Executive, SiriusIT and a senior representative, Canonical. Further senior speakers are being approached.

http://www.westminsterforumprojects.co.uk/forums/event.php?eid=131

Date and Time: 23rd September 2010, 8.45 – 2.00pm

American Hackathon 2009

On the weekend of December 12-13th, we’re holding an open, distributed, nationwide hackathon to develop open source applications to open government.  The goal is to solve as many open government problems as we can with as many hackathons across the country as possible. We’ve teamed up with Mozilla, Google, Redhat and Fedora, who will all be working with their developers to make things happen.

See the website for more information:

http://www.sunlightlabs.com/hackathon09/

December 12-13 2009