Sometime in the past few minutes, Mitch Kapor, in his keynote at O'Reilly's Open Source conference in Portland announced my company's latest piece of work, which you can visit at http://www.opensector.org. It's a web site focused on public sector open software initiatives. This has been a bit of a fire drill to have ready this morning; it was only about three weeks ago that we decided to do it, when we saw that one of our big clients and Mitch saw the same opportunity and were both willing to support it. It fits fairly well into what we're doing.
A quote from Mitch: "There's a tremendous amount of interest in open source in government and education around the world. Until now, there have been few resources to help public sector decision-makers stay current on government initiatives related to Linux and other open source software. We are pleased to have been able to make a small contribution to the launch of OpenSector.org, which promises to be a powerful and useful site for anyone interested in what's going on with open source in the public sector." For those who don't know, Mitch founded Lotus, the Electronic Frontier Foundation, and most recently, the Open Software Applications Foundation (http://www.osafoundation.org). My business partner, who's missed at least as much sleep as I have getting this done, is David Land, former publisher of http://java.sun.com, who also developed much of Apple's web site. Feedback is most certainly welcome, as we're mopping up bugs and design flaws, even as we also work on upgrades. For those who wonder about the underlying tech, it is Squishdot running under Plone, which is a Zope CMF gizmo. All of that runs on the same server as this mailing list(!), but it has a Squid caching server as its front end, which is hosted at Verio, so it should be able to handle a fairly hefty load. We're eager for article submissions and looking for volunteer editors, who will review and edit submissions, and have access to some back-end tools that we're building to help find relevant articles. -- Nick Arnett Phone/fax: (408) 904-7198 [EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
