Deb Bryant | Deb Bryant is a long-time community open source professional with three decades of experience and focus on building healthy communities and the use of open source to the public benefit. Currently she is Director for US Policy for the Open Source Initiative and Policy Advisor to the Eclipse Foundation. Previously she served as Senior Director, Open Source Program Office at Red Hat for eight years, where she and her team championed the company's stewardship of open source communities. She serves on numerous boards and councils with public trust agendas and an emphasis on open source to achieve their objectives; Board Adviser to Open Source Elections Technology (OSET) Foundation, OASIS Open Projects, and Democracy Lab. She is Board Member Emeritus Open Source Initiative (OSI) and was previously on the Eclipse Foundation board of directors. Deb received the O’ Reilly Open Source Award at OSCON in recognition of her contribution to open source communities and early advocacy for the use of open source in government. You can follow her on twitter as @debbryant or on Mastodon @debbryant@fosstodon.org.
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6 examples of open source best practices in knowledge-sharing projects
Compare how six different knowledge-sharing communities approach gathering, maintaining, and distributing their best practices.
US homeland security investing in OSS cybersecurity projects
Working on cybersecurity and looking for support for your project? The Homeland Open Security Technology (HOST) project has begun a seven-week open call for investment…
The Open Source Initiative: Add your voice
One of my personal open source community highlights this year was joining the Open Source Initiative (OSI) board. I first discovered OSI in 2003 when I was asked to weigh in…
Open source has a cyber security posse heading to POSSCON
One of my favorite projects I have the good fortune to be contributing to was created by the US Department of Homeland Security Science and Technology Directorate (that's DHS…
Open government communities survey--be counted
If you’re involved in open government, I encourage you to participate in this first informal open government communities survey. The objective of the short survey is to create…
Open Data, Open Source, and the City of Portland
"As a city that values openness and innovation, Portland is proud to host GOSCON this year." - Mayor Sam Adams Editors' Note: This article was originally posted on the GOSCON…
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Thanks Scott for sharing. I was surprised how high "Interoperability" ranked as an issue, and wondered if you'd lumped Interoperability and Migration issues into a single criteria in the survey, or if you had consolidated two answers into one after the fact. I would think they may be related but they can be very different concerns (i.e. an organization desires interoperability as an attribute of the target application - sees that as a post-adoption benefit - but may have migration issues due to tack of sufficiently skills resources).
Great list! Thanks for sharing it.