Tuesday, 3 March 2009

OpenSourceGov

There is a new instance of mediawiki in town:

This site has been created to support the UK government's open source strategy and action plan. Hopefully soon, anyone who wants to know a bit about what open source is, and what it can do, will be able to find plenty to read here. – OpenSourceGov.

Didn't take long to find out who was behind it (whois helps with this sorts of thing) Dave Briggs, who says on his site:

Last week, the Cabinet Office published a new action plan for government and open source, to level the playing field when it comes to procuring software. [Snipped]
Excellent stuff. There is a Netvibes dashboard set up to help monitor what is being said online, some of which is a little cynical and critical. I tend to prefer to be relentlessly positive.

Anyway, the situation with open source is a little similar to that of social web stuff, in that knowledge about it, and its possibilities, are somewhat limited. We need open source digital mentors! Alternatively, we just need a wiki. – davepress.net

It will be very interesting to see how this develops, as with all of these kind of thingsTM it will need to strike a cord and build a community to give it momentum and keep up to date.

1 comment:

danielnancy39 said...

Anyway, the situation with open source is a little similar to that of social web stuff, in that knowledge about it, and its possibilities, are somewhat limited. We need open source digital mentors! Disorderly Conduct Maryland Alternatively, we just need a wiki. – depress. net. It will be very interesting to see how this develops, as with all of these kind of things it will need to strike a cord and build a community to give it momentum and keep up to date.