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Forum will challenges in Office, open-source community

NASA will be hosting an open-source software Summit in the Ames Research Center in Moffett field, California, at the end of the month to the leaders in the open-source community together to focus on the challenges facing the community and to processes, policy and culture necessary open-source development.

The top, which take place March 29-30, will have a variety of speakers from the open-source community, including Director of Mozilla Labs (the company behind the Firefox browser) Pascal Finetti; Dr. Robert Sutor, vice president of open systems and Linux at IBM; and Brian Steven, a chief technology officer and vice president of engineering at Red Hat, among others.

"Open source brings numerous benefits NASA software projects, including increased quality, reduced costs, faster development cycles and fewer barriers to public-private cooperation Agency for the commercialization of technology," said Chris Kemp, chief technology officer for it at NASA, in a press release.

According to the release include targets for the top; establishing a method to support cooperation with the public about the development life cycle; Exploring NASA's ability to release and develop software under a variety of open-source license; to determine whether and to what extent NASA to the open-source software governance bodies can participate; and collect best practices from the private sector and other federal agencies.

The Summit will be facilitated by Wayne Moses Burke and Lucas Cioffi of the Open Forum Foundation. Forum participants will break down in focus groups and policy solutions to challenges such as the open-source license, governance, risk assessment and the International Traffic in Arms Regulations to discuss.

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Than Rowinski is a staff reporter for communication technologies.

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