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NASA Open Source Summit

By Keith Cowing
April 8, 2013
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NASA, State Department and Veteran Affairs Innovation Initiative Host Open Source Summit

“Registration for the second Open Source Summit, hosted by NASA, the U.S. State Department and the Veteran Affairs Innovation Initiative to advance the use of open source software in government, is under way. The event will be held June 20-21 at the Robert H. Smith School of Business at the University of Maryland in College Park, Md. The summit will convene leaders from government and industry as well as software practitioners to discuss the development, release and use of open source software, which is characterized by a collaborative development process and free user access.”

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