The Eclipse community has a well established track record for developing innovative technology based on open standards. This presentation will focus on how the Eclipse community brings together different organization to help drive forward the adoption of open standards.

When it comes to complex business applications, free can sometimes create more problems and frustration than it solves. In this session we will examine the most common myths and misconceptions of free software distribution that confront this mission-critical project.

This supplemental workshop will focus on how organizations can create and implement an open source policy. It will be an interactive mix of presentation and discussion, with opportunity for questions and to review participants’ real-world issues.

This presentation gives an overview about the OpenDocument Format (ODF) ISO standard, its history, benefits, and adoption by users, vendors, and applications. In addition, this session will provide insights into available resources, use cases, and the future of ODF.

The panel discussion will focus on a single question: what should the user community do, what actions should they take in light of competing Open Document Formats? Each of our industry experts will be asked to present their practical response.

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

The Environmental Information Exchange Network encompasses all 50 states, US EPA, and several tribes. This session will review the approach taken by US EPA and the States to define and implement a web services-based network for the exchange of specialized data between environmental regulators.

Open standards are vitally important to ensure interoperability and reduce your risk as a technology user. In this session, Jim Zemlin of the Linux Foundation will detail why government IT professionals can take advantage of this simple and effective risk management strategy.

Open standards and open source software reduce vendor lock in, but few government IT organizations understand what full openness entails. This controversial presentation dispels myths and provides advice about how to reap benefits and avoid the risks of openness.

In this session, we will examine the world wide phenomena of open source. While debunking some of the myths of open source, we will examine why millions have bet their jobs, their information systems and their lives on this phenomenon.

An introduction to open source for public sector managers.

An informal conversational session with systems administrators experienced in running open source in the data center. What works? What doesn't?

Richard Baldwin, regional Vice President of SugarCRM, will discuss the Public Sector's benefits of utilizing Open Source CRM. Richard will present two use cases in which government agency's utilized Sugar's open source architecture to solve real world issues.

Fundamentals of the different types of licenses associated with open source software and what that can mean to your organization as an end-user or a project contributor; addresses uniqueconcerns for the public sector..

This presentation will discuss how open source software and methodologies were used by small local government with limited resources to support development of geographic information system (GIS) tools. Two case studies will be presented.

We describe and demonstrate Project 10-9 / Open Voice Bridge, an ongoing National Institutes of Justice funded project to demonstrate the use of open hardware and software technologies to deploy a work-in-progress project in the public safety space.

Opening Comments and Welcome

An examination of the current state of FOSS and Open Document Format (ODF) acceptance by governments around the world, with an analysis of what is at stake and how the involved communities can address the issues.

What’s the difference in Oregon? Why are some government IT leaders successful at building strong, thriving Open Source environments while others struggle to establish Community Source Frameworks for informed policy decision-making?

Open Source Software is now present in nearly every large institution in business, academia, and government. To create and maintain a coherent open source strategy, decision makers must be educated on its issues, costs/benefits, and best practices.

Open Source Applications have been developed which are useful as stand-alones, but can be even more so if integrated or embedded in a common framework. How we took both open source and proprietary software and put them together to create an intranet collaboration portal to serve our business needs.

There are 150,000 open source products available. Which are the right ones for your environment?

Getting open source software into government is hard enough, but getting open source software out of government is ever harder. This session will discuss the benefits of releasing source code to the public and explain the process of starting a state government maintained open source project.

This presentation
will describe why Japan views adoption of OSS as a strategic
opportunity, the challenges being faced in increasing use of open
source.

Ali Shadman. Chief Technology Officer of Unisys’ Systems & Technology Division will discuss, What’s a Systems Integrator’s Role in Open Source and how best to bridge the gap between business and technology with Open Source solutions.

Special interactive session led by collaboration processes and tools pioneer Ward Cunningham.

We’ve invited two top experts to help us explore the business value of embracing ODF and OOXML. Microsoft and IBM will compete for your mind-share and business.

We've invited the experts to explore ODF and PDF and how they relate to open source software. What are the open source implementations of each?

The degree to which ODF and PDF meet the Bruce Perens tests of open standards will be explored

Leveraging a completely open source, standards-based solution, TriMet successfully released a new mapping system for transit in Portland. This talk will examine the components used, the implementation experience, and the success factors in building an interoperable, cost-effective solution.

This workshop introduces participants to Parallel Thinking tools (the Six Thinking Hats). The tools, invented by Dr. Edward de Bono, are used around the world to promote collaboration and improve the effectiveness of meetings.