Software and Collaboration in Higher Education: A Study of Open Source Software by Paul N. Couran (Principal Investigator) and Rebecca J. Griffith. Accirding to Eric Schnell's blog, this report reference Open Source OPACS (http://ericschnell.blogspot.com/2006/08/are-opac-vendors-days-numbered.html)
"Following on from GNOME's participation in Google's Summer of Code, we've decided to sponsor three projects in a similar fashion to the Summer of Code, but for women only. GNOME had no Summer of Code applications from women, and we think it's time to do something to encourage more women to join our development community"
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A Department of Defense report that recommends a roadmap to adopt open source and open standards. It claims that this is in the US national interest, and is also in the interest of national security.
"This paper will examine the use of open source methodologies in the development of software and in the development of farmers movements against seed patents and the increasing control of seed stock." (from introduction).
Included in the ToC of this book by James Surowiecki is a chapter(?) titled "Putting the pieces together : the CIA, Linux, and the art of decentralization."
open standards++
"The Free Standards Group is an independent, nonprofit organization dedicated to accelerating the use of free and open source software by developing and promoting standards."