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How to Get Involved with Open Source Projects
Mon-1315-Stein.pdf
Andy Stein

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We will present a practical approach to getting value from Open Source projects. We will discuss active collaborative software development projects and productive use of freely available Open Source software products. Topics will include:

  • eGovernment
  • Project Portfolio Management
  • Police Record Management
  • Internal collaboration using wiki

Andy Stein is Director of Information Technology at the City of Newport News, Virginia. Using Open Source as a best practice model for collaborative software development, the City of Newport News is engaged in shared projects with other localities. The City of Newport News has developed a strategy to replace legacy applications through a collaborative ecosystem with public entities and through public-private partnerships.

In addition to his current work in Government, Andy’s professional background includes management and operation of large scaleable computing environments at Capital One, as well as work in application development, relational database and systems architecture in IBM’s consulting practice. Andy designed and implemented the RISC chip for IBM in the mid 1980’s.

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