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04/04/2006, 8:30 AM - 5:00 PM
Sponsored by:
A One-day LinuxWorld Meeting serving the Public Sector.
A Five Session Program of presentations, meetings, and attendee dialogues with leading government, LWE vendors, and Community Project leaders. Our purpose is to bring into focus the dominant issues facing public sector decision makers in building and maintaining systems and staff in a world of rapidly evolving technology.
Case-based analyses of: requirements, product options, maintenance, training, collaboration, and legal frameworks. Viewed from intra-public, inter-public, and public-private perspectives.
Open and free for credentialed members of the public sector.
Government Day Program
Moderator and Organizer - Leon Shiman, Director, X.Org Foundation
8:30am - 10:00am: Coffee Served and Open Discussion
9:00am - 9:50am: Keynote by Nicholas Negroponte: One Laptop Per Child - Room 210
10:00am - 11:00am: Challenge of the public sector: requirements, procurements, constituents
Mary Tzambazakis, Chief Financial Officer, City of Springfield, Massachusetts
Myra Berloff, Director, Massachusetts Office on Disability
Kevin Stokes, Chief Information Officer, Town of Brookline, Massachusetts
11:00am - 12:00pm: Free and Open Software
The GNU Project
Douglas W. Johnson, Program Manager Standards Strategy, Office of the CTO, Sun Microsystems
Benjamin Mako Hill Vice President, Software in the Public Interest
12:15pm - 1:15pm: Lunch Served
12:25pm - 12:45pm: Sponsor Statements: Microsoft | Novell Inc. | Red Hat | Trusted Computer Solutions
12:45pm - 1:15pm: "Open Standards and Security In Public Sector IT"
David A. Wheeler, Institute for Defense Analyses (IDA)
1:15 - 2:00: Guided Tour of Expo and .Org pavillion
2:00 - 3:00: Enterprise Applications
Louis Suarez-Potts, OpenOffice.org
Christopher Blizzard, The Mozilla Project
Josh Berkus, PostgreSQL
3:00 - 4:00: The Enterprise Desktop
Jeremy White
The WINE Project
Jim McQuillan
The Linux Terminal Server Project (LTSP)
Luis Villa
The Berkman Institute for Internet and Society, Harvard Law School
4:00 - 5:00: Sponsor's Reception
Sponsored By: Microsoft | Novell Inc. | Red Hat | Trusted Computer Solutions
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