Open Source Software, Government, and Cyber Security
- March 4 · 6:30 PM
Join us as Computer Scientist Dr. David A. Wheeler discusses how open source software (OSS) is widely used – and widely misunderstood. This presentation will discuss OSS, focusing on issues relating to the US federal government and to computer security.
Agenda:
6:30 - Refreshments
7:00 - Announcements
7:15 - Lecture
8:15 - Q&A
8:45 - SIG-BEER
Bio: Dr. David A. Wheeler works at the Institute for Defense Analyses (IDA), and is an expert on open source software (OSS) and on developing secure software. His works include “Why Open Source Software / Free Software (OSS/FS)? Look at the Numbers!”, “Publicly Releasing Open Source Software Developed for the U.S. Government”, “Open Source Software is Commercial”, and “Secure Programming for Linux and Unix HOWTO”. He was a key developer of the 2009 DoD OSS policy and its supporting FAQ.
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Adam Firestone
The presentation was wonderful, as was the venue! Dr. Wheeler had mentioned making the slide deck available. Do we know when this will take place?
Many thanks!
1 · March 5
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Nevin House
Highly informative OSS talk; I now have justification for using jQuery on any software project, including DOD projects, both Classified and Unclassified.
1 · March 5
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Manoj K Srivastava
Very informative and useful. The speaker was well prepared and had in-depth knowledge of the topic.
March 5
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alice
This was really great; really well communicated, Dr. Wheeler. I'm not a contractor, but I still found it fascinating, as is the spirit of open source, which was captured well. (Sadly, OSS was somewhat antithetical to what my school experiences.) I love going to stuff like this to tuck away thoughts and concepts for later use -- hopefully to be used sooner than later!
2 · March 5
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Timothy Gomez
I was glad to have made it to this event. Thanks for making time to speak tonight!
March 4
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Emme Bee
Very informative; I now know how to present a better case for OSS to my federal client.
March 4
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James J. Pottmyer
Very good; interesting to me. I doubt that you could offer such a program more than once a year. In the old days, ACM members seemed much more interested in the technology supporting the practice of system design and programming than they were interested in the legal and regulatory issues supporting such efforts.
March 4
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Janet Dianda
Dr. Wheeler was one of my professors at GMU! Looking forward to his talk.
1 · January 19
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