Air Force Software Licensing Bible
If I ever had any questions about how the government can use or demand software with open source licenses, the answer is …
The Accumulo Challenge, Part II
In Part I, we discussed the Senate Armed Services Committee (SASC)’s attempt to hobble the open source Accumulo project in the DOD. They …
The Accumulo Challenge, Part I
The dozens of software projects launched in the wake of Google’s Big Table and Map Reduce papers have changed the way we handle large datasets. Like …
GOSCON: Climbing the Mountain
The Government Open Source Conference, masterfully curated by Deb Bryant and the good people at the Oregon State University Open Source Lab, …
DOD Open Technology Development Guide Released!
The DOD’s second Open Technology Development Roadmap has been released: “Open Technology Development: Lessons Learned and Best Practices“. It’s a handbook for …
Fighting Forks
This is the ignite presentation I gave for the Mil-OSS WG2 conference today. It’s a tremendous group of sandal-shod revolutionaries who want …
Open Source Pork
The adorably named “Snort” project has been the mainstay of open source intrusion detection systems for as long as I can remember. …