(apologies for cross-post) http://ossummit.org/
Registration for the Open Source Summit v3.0: Communities Meeting is now open! This event grows out of the past two years of success. The first Open Source Summit <http://www.nasa.gov/open/source/> was held at NASA's Ames Research Center in Mountain View, CA and focused specifically on NASA's open source policies. Last year, OSS <http://open.nasa.gov/summit/> [full schedule] <https://hackpad.com/Open-Source-Summit-2012-Live-Schedule-dXG9B8U2KkZ> moved to the University of Maryland in College Park and broadened the discussion to include all agencies, including NASA, the State Dept, and the VA on the planning team. This year's Open Source Summit will explain how to build, engage with, and maintain open source communities -- and when we say open source, we don't just mean software, we also mean hardware and data. If you are a federal civil servant that needs to build or engage with an open source community, you should plan on attending. Be warned however: this is not your average event! The multi-agency planning team is tasked with ensuring that the event provides substantive benefit to federal agency personnel, and the format is uniquely designed to deliver not just abstract content from subject matter experts (of course we have those), but also the opportunity to see this knowledge applied to a specific case study, and then to learn how to apply it to your specific situation. In addition, we will collate the results of the discussions during the event and making them available afterwards so that other may learn from the shared experiences and wisdom of their peers. Also, fyi - the registration numbers are unlimited for government employees, but limited t o 70 for non-govies. We have a total registration limit of 200. Please use the #ossdc hashtag if you want to have conversations on Twitter about the meeting. Thanks and I look forward to your registrations and interest! If you have any questions, Please don't hesitate to ask either by replying to this email, contacting me or anyone else on the Planning Team directly, or by sending us a Tweet! Thanks! Cheers, Chris Mattmann (on behalf of the Planning Team) ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Chris Mattmann, Ph.D. Senior Computer Scientist NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory Pasadena, CA 91109 USA Office: 171-266B, Mailstop: 171-246 Email: chris.a.mattm...@nasa.gov WWW: http://sunset.usc.edu/~mattmann/ ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Adjunct Assistant Professor, Computer Science Department University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA 90089 USA ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++