This might be the most important blog post I write all year (and it’s January now), so I’ll get straight to the point: If you’re running a government software project and you plan to make it open source eventually, then just make it open source from the beginning. Waiting will only create more work. It’s [...]
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Sharing Principles, Policies, and Law, Not Just Code
Posted on May 11, 2011 by Michelle Koeth in Commentary
With good reason, government staff require proven, reliable, and safe information technology solutions for their needs. Further, with government IT staff and budgets being cut, government needs to do more with less. Making apps already developed and proven by one government entity (such as a city government) available as open source, can be a great [...]