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Oregon State University Open Source Lab Open Source in Government From “Why” to “Why Not ” Presented to the GIS in Action April 18, 2007 Deborah Bryant Public Sector Communities Manager, OSU Open Source Lab OSU Open Source Lab • Housed at Oregon State University in Corvallis • 20 staff; 8 full time and 12 students • Located in the Office of Information Technology • Inception; cost reductions • Maturation; pulling together disparate OSU Open Source efforts • Success; earned international reputation as leading Open Source project hosting and support environment OSL’s Activities • Supports the OSU Mission of Education, Outreach and Community Building • Provides managed and collocated hosting of not-for-profit Open Source Software projects • Engages in leadership and development of OSS projects • Builds community for OSS • Contributes to the Open IT ecosystem in Oregon through its expertise and activities • Public Sector Program OSL By the Numbers • 40 million unique visitors a day • Hosting 30 OSS projects • Home to Mozilla, Firefox, Open Office, and Linux Kernel Development (Master Kernel) • 420% ROI to University in 2 years (Nutch Search Engine) • Donations from Industry YTD • Real Networks: $500,000 • Google: $350,000 • Private community donations: $200,000 • Plus equipment donations Public Sector Program Activities • Connects people and projects in a growing Community • Subject matter expertise – – – – – State CIO Council State Data Center Open Source Applications Development Resources Development Models • Education & Community Building – Government Open Source Conference Domestic highlights • City of Newport News • California Air Resources Board • Oregon Department of Transportation Egov – new OSS based on Plone Open Process: eGov Consortium Shared Software Shared Implementations Shared Support Contracts Collaborative Enhancements Shared Best Practices & Knowledge Base Mutual Aid Shared Services Evolving and Improving Ecosystem nngov.com 1=Low; 5=High Differentiator Products Maturity Instances • Perl 3 3 2 2 2 2 176 1 2 1 7 1 • Apache Axis Web Services Version 1.1 1021 • Apache Tomcat Version 4.1 • Apache XML Security Version 1.0.5D2 • BlueJ • Castor XML Data binding Library Ver 9.5.2/9.5.4 • Jakarta Tomcat Connector 1.2.15 Development • Java API for Servlets Version 2.3.1 • Java Run Time Environment (JRE) 1.4 Tools • XML Parser required by Axis Ver 2.5.0 (Xerces) • Eclipse IDE (Java development) • Gnome • Java Development Kit (JDK 1.4.2_07) • jEdit • PHP • Python • OpenSTA Integration Service • JMagick Version 5.5.7 Q8 JNI API 5 5 4 4 1 5 5 5 5 5 4 5 4 3 4 1 1 1 79 1 2 34 1 1 4,500+ 1 16 1 181 3 6 432 1 1 • Linux Plus Mainframe Linux Partition • FireFox Browser • Paint .NET & GIMP: Image editing • Thunderbird 1 1 2 2 Application Servers • Jboss Java Server for Adobe and FileNet Collaboration DBMS Operating System Presentation • OpenOffice • JavaMail API Version 1.2 • MySQL • jTDS JDBC Driver version 1.2 68 97 2 1 Lessons Learned: early entrants • Oregon Department of Administrative Services • Help Desk Project • Commonwealth of MA • Public Policy with a Big “P” – – – – Oregon Oregon Texas Minnesota Asterisk Open Source PBX SIP Audio Conferencing with Recording Customer Requirements • Remote Hearings for Administrative Law Judges • Recordings of proceedings for disposition • High availability Cost Options • Proprietary System: $430,000 for Hardware and Software • Open Source System: $11,500 for Hardware • Staff Time for configuration and testing similar for both options Asterisk Open Source PBX SIP Audio Conferencing with Recording Emerging Projects • Industry recognizing need for vertical applications • Former ODSL CEO starts CSI • Eclipse community initiates Open Health Information Project at OSU • Others My Destination Portal • Global Open eGOv project out of Stanford Getting Started • The value of Open Source to government IT is not the application, it’s the model. • Network with your peers • Learn by doing in a managed environment • Policy, light touch • Recommended reading: – “Succeeding with Open Source” by Bernard Golden – Visit the www.goscon.org for great materials – Attend GOSCON Oct 15-16 in Portland. Thanks! Any questions? For more information: Public Sector Communities Manager: [email protected] The Lab: www.osuosl.org The Conference: www.goscon.org Good definition of OSS terms & context: www.wikipedia.org