[OPA-devel] RE: OPA, Open Source, and Partnerships

[Joseph P. <Jos...@pw...>]

SourceForge Demo - 10:00 am Friday 7 February at PWGSC (Location to be =
finalized.) **RSVP**

Colleagues, In meeting with OPA colleagues Mark Faul and Sara Kerr =
yesterday at Bellanet/IDRC, we agreed it would be useful to arrange a =
demo of SourceForge.net for anyone with an interest in advancing OPA to =
Version 3.0.  This would, of course, be open to other public servants =
involved in the sharing out or adaptation of software under an open =
source business model.

http://www.sourceforge.net/projects/opa is becoming the new location of =
the OPA project, which since 1999 has been hosted at =
http://www.bellanet.org/opa. Please note - Mark and Sara are still in =
the process of setting up the new location.  Now at SourceForge, the =
growing OPA community can benefit from full-featured roles management, =
version-management, bug-management, and communications.  You may join =
the OPA developer discussion list by sending a blank email to =
opa...@li...

The Architecture & Standards Directorate within GTIP at PWGSC currently =
has two other small applications hosted at =
http://sourceforge.net/projects/simpleassets/ and =
http://sourceforge.net/projects/simpletracker/, created by Jeff Gordon.  =
For the time being our team is using the fee-free SourceForge facilities =
for open source software releases. Other Canadian Government =
organizations are hosting their open source initiatives at their own =
sites, for example: http://www.crc.ca/FreeWRL/ , =
http://www.crc.ca/en/html/scari/home/releases/releases and a Natural =
Resources Canada project that is currently orphaned at =
http://www.cim.mcgill.ca/~rbrook/atlas_gen/. =20

This month the Architecture and Standards Directorate has also begun a =
learning pilot using Source"Cast" https://www.pwgsc.inst.collab.net, =
which is a more feature-rich environment than Source"Forge". General =
info is available at http://www.collab.net/products.  Please note that =
this is in "kick-the-tires" learning mode, and the site does **not** =
meet "Common Look & Feel" requirements.  Your team is free to create a =
"project" and to play in our SourceCast sandbox, to assist in =
determining whether we should propose to invest what is necessary to =
adapt a full CLF-compliant environment available for any collaborative =
software projects initiated by Government of Canada, ranging from free =
open source (like those orphaned GIS tools from NRCan), through to =
secure consortia projects.

Back to the Source"Forge" session for OPAfolk... I am currently =
arranging the session for the morning of 7 February.  Details will =
follow. Meanwhile, please let me know if you wish to attend:  RSVP.  =
Feel free to forward this invitation to other individuals working with =
or for government in Canada's capital, who you think may be interested =
in learning about how to collaborate in the OPA project, and in other =
Canadian Government open source initiatives.

Regards,

Joseph (Jos=E9) Potvin
Management Team Member, Enterprise Architecture
Architecture and Standards Directorate
Government Telecommunications & Informatics Service (GTIS)
Public Works and Government Services Canada (PWGSC)
11 Rue Laurier, Place du Portage, Phase III, 4th Floor (4A1)
Gatineau (Hull), Quebec K1A 0S5
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