Subject: Talk by Terry Bollinger
Date: Tue, 22 Jul 2003 16:16:22 -0400 (EDT)
From: May Cheh <cheh@lhc.nlm.nih.gov>
To: lhc@expert-sun1.nlm.nih.gov,
mitp_participants@expert-sun1.nlm.nih.gov

You are invited to a talk:

Wednesday, July 30, 2003, 2:30-3:30 p.m., Bldg 38A, 7th Floor Conference
Rm
Terry Bollinger
MITRE Corp

Please RSVP to May Cheh
(cheh@lhc.nlm.nih.gov) to let her know what attendance
is likely to be.  If there is sufficient interest,
she should consider changing the venue to a room with
more seating (perhaps the new visitor's center?).

Use of Free (or Open Source) Software in the Department of Defense

Free (or Open Source) Software (FOSS) is software created via
cooperative development processes with open-ended memberships, as
opposed to proprietary software that is developed using closed
development and limited memberships. In 2002 The MITRE Corporation
did a study to determine how FOSS is used in the U.S. Department
of Defense. The study uncovered extensive FOSS use in four areas:
infrastructure, development, security, and research. In this talk
the author of the MITRE report will summarize the results of the
study, discuss recent developments such as a new DoD policy on
FOSS use, and describe some practical ways to understand the
relationship between FOSS and proprietary software.

References

"Use of Free and Open Source Software (FOSS) in the U.S.
Department of Defense," v1.2.04, January 2, 2003,
http://www.egovos.org/pdf/dodfoss.pdf