According to a report on Slashdot, Russia is planning to develop a Linux-based national operating system (OS). The original Russian report is translated here.
The U.S. Department of Energy (DoE) is setting up a competitive process to award $4.3 billion for projects to upgrade the US electric grid, which is one of important technology provisions of the economic stimulus […]
Recently I blogged about a new military “open source” site Forge.mil. I’ve received more information and a location where you can track the development of this site. The correct URL for the site will be […]
Tuesday President Obama signed the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (H.R.1) , which includes funding for Tax relief $288 B – includes $15 B for Infrastructure and Science, $61 B for Protecting the Vulnerable, $25 […]
The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) and the Open Source Geospatial Foundation (OSGeo) signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) to work together to encourage open geospatial standards and open source geospatial software and data. The way […]
Public access to county GIS data in California is gathering legal precedents. The California Court of Appeal in a unanimous decision affirmed the Santa Clara County Superior Court’s decision requiring Santa Clara County to comply […]
Directions Magazine has just published an article about three proposals recommending that the development of a national spatial data infrastructure (NSDI) be part of a US economic stimulus package . I’ve mentioned two of them […]
Over the past two years I have attended Military Open Source Conferences in Washington DC to talk about geospatial open source software. I was impressed by the degree to which open source software has penetrated […]