Software Special Interest Group  

Open Source Software and

Government

 

by: David Wheeler

Tuesday February 25, 2014

 

Open source software has become widely used in the U.S. government, including the U.S. Department of Defense, but many myths persist.  This presentation will discuss issues connecting open source software and government, for example, why nearly all open source software is commercial software and why that matters.  It will also discuss when software developed using U.S. government funds may be released as open source software.

 

Dr. David Wheeler works at the Institute for Defense Analyses (IDA); he is an expert on open source software (OSS) and on developing secure software. His works on OSS include "Why Open Source Software / Free Software (OSS/FS)? Look at the Numbers!", "How to Evaluate OSS/FS Programs", "Publicly Releasing Open Source Software Developed for the U.S. Government", and "Open Source Software is Commercial". He also helped develop the U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) policy on OSS. His works on developing secure software include "Secure Programming for Linux and Unix HOWTO" and "Fully Countering Trusting Trust through Diverse Double-Compiling (DDC)". Other works of his include "Software Inspection: An Industry Best Practice" and "Ada 95: The Lovelace Tutorial".

 

Dr. Wheeler has a PhD in Information Technology, a Master's in Computer Science, a certificate in Information Security, and a B.S. in Electronics Engineering, all from George Mason University (GMU). He lives in Northern Virginia.

Tuesday February 25, 2014

6:30 PM � Networking and Pizza

7:00 � 8:00 PM � Program

 There is no cost to attend at McLean, Silver Spring, and Annapolis Junction

Locations:

The presentation will originate at the McLean facility, with video tele-conferencing (VTC) between:

If you can host another location via VTC, please contact Scott Ankrum (below)

 

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Registration:

Registration Website: https://asq509.org/ht/d/DoSurvey/i/26913

 

You must register by noon on Monday, February 24.  If you cannot attend at any location, select telephone dial-in when you register.  FDA (Silver Spring) cannot host non-citizen visitors.  If not a US citizen, please provide your title, employer, and address.  Allow 2 business days for registration before the meeting.

 

 

Software SIG Chairman:      T. Scott Ankrum (ASQ & IEEE)

Software SIG Committee:    Tom Neff, Roger Hardwicke, James L. de la Houssaye, Manny Castillo, Salwa M Abdul-Rauf, Richard Eng, Rhonda L. Farrell, Alfred Kromholz, James M. Simpson, Chris Jones, Lance Kelson,  Meg Weinberg, Tom Everett, Aaron Dagen

 

Sponsored Jointly By: The American Society for Quality (ASQ), Washington DC & Maryland Metro Section (509), Software Special Interest Group (SSIG); IEEE Computer Society, Washington, DC & Northern Virginia Chapters; and Society for Software Quality (SSQ), Washington, DC Area Chapter.  Members of the ASQ SSIG include software quality professionals, software engineers, and others interested in applying quality principles to the field of software development.  See our web page: https://asq509.org/ht/d/sp/i/2499/pid/2499.  We meet every month, usually at the MITRE facility in McLean, Virginia, with VTC to other locations.

 

Next Month:  �Building a Software Assurance Road-map and Using It Effectively� by Robert Martin on Tuesday, March 25, 2014