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2 Replies to “A VerySpatial Podcast – Episode 379”
Adena Schutzberg
You mentioned GOSS, government open source software, in the podcast. What exactly distinguishes it from “regular” open source software?
One of the two tracks during the morning sessions of GEOINT Forward was focused, at least in part, on this issue. During the two sessions(http://geoint2012.com/agenda) the discussion focused on FOSS, GOSS (Free and Government Open Source), COTS, and GOTS (Consumer and Government off the shelf). The open source topics from the government side were focused on the desire of government employee desire to put acceptable projects into the traditional open source pipeline (Github in a least one case). The problem is that on the government side there are restrictions to or at least hurdles to this true open release. There are government code repositories that are accessible within agencies and in some cases between agencies.
GOSS, as I understand it then, is open source projects that are open to the goverment community as opposed to freely open to the public. There was at least one project being discussed that was in the final stages of the red tape to released in the traditional FOSS pathway.
On a related note, there was also discussion of how government perception of FOSS has been defined (not new) as commercial from a purchasing perspective. This means that the issues that used to limit the use of FOSS within agencies are longer an obstacle.
You mentioned GOSS, government open source software, in the podcast. What exactly distinguishes it from “regular” open source software?
One of the two tracks during the morning sessions of GEOINT Forward was focused, at least in part, on this issue. During the two sessions(http://geoint2012.com/agenda) the discussion focused on FOSS, GOSS (Free and Government Open Source), COTS, and GOTS (Consumer and Government off the shelf). The open source topics from the government side were focused on the desire of government employee desire to put acceptable projects into the traditional open source pipeline (Github in a least one case). The problem is that on the government side there are restrictions to or at least hurdles to this true open release. There are government code repositories that are accessible within agencies and in some cases between agencies.
GOSS, as I understand it then, is open source projects that are open to the goverment community as opposed to freely open to the public. There was at least one project being discussed that was in the final stages of the red tape to released in the traditional FOSS pathway.
The CIO Office of the DOD has a page regarding OSS http://dodcio.defense.gov/OpenSourceSoftwareFAQ.aspx
On a related note, there was also discussion of how government perception of FOSS has been defined (not new) as commercial from a purchasing perspective. This means that the issues that used to limit the use of FOSS within agencies are longer an obstacle.