OSCON 2010: Bryan Sivak
summary
Government IT runs twenty percent of servers on Linux and held Apps for Democracy contests that require open licenses, but mandatory top‑down open source rules fail because implementers need skills and ownership; procurement, support and honest cost accounting matter (real savings look more like sixty to eighty percent of proprietary total cost). Current wins include a JBoss integration replacing a decade‑old proprietary bus and a pilot open‑source voting system for overseas military ballots.
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chapters (10)
- 0:00Introduction and excitement
- 0:24Open source adoption in government
- 1:49Procurement forms and open source
- 3:14Why top-down mandates fail
- 4:20Procurement and support challenges
- 5:25Cost of open source solutions
- 6:07JBoss integration success
- 7:32Open source voting systems
- 9:20Code for America project
- 10:22Call to action and conclusion
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