U.S. Rep. David Wu will join presenters this week for the sixth-annual Government Open Source Conference (GOSCON), Oct. 27-28 at The Nines hotel in Portland.
This year GOSCON returns to Portland after being hosted in 2009 in Washington, D.C.
“Last fall, when the City of Portland adopted the nation’s first open source software policy, one of our goals was to help attract premier open source conferences to Portland,” said Portland Mayor Adams. “Today I am pleased our efforts in working with [conference organizer] Deb Bryant and the Oregon State University Open Source Lab to bring GOSCON back to Portland have paid off.”
Mayor Sam Adams, Chief Technology Officer Mark Greinke and Senior Information Systems Manager Paul Rothi are among those from the Rose City scheduled to speak at GOSCON.
A host of information technology leaders from governments around the United States and abroad, open source not-for-profits and private industry who are scheduled to speak, from the Program Director for data.gov, Marion Royal, CIO of the New York State Senate (Andrew Hoppin) to the director of E-Services for the State of California (Carolyn Lawson) to the director of marketing and business development for IBM Linux open source platform (Jean Staten Healy). Congressman Wu, a Democrat representing Oregon’s 1st Congressional District, has just confirmed that he will provide comments at the Thursday luncheon just prior to the GOSCON Awards ceremony.
Speakers include:
- Bryan Sivak,chief technology officer for the District of Columbia;
- Dugan Petty, chief information officer for the State of Oregon;
- Andy Stein, director of IT for the City of Newport News, Virginia;
- David Riley, CONNECT initiative lead, Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology;
- Bibiana McHugh and Tim McHugh of the Tri-Met transportation department in Portland;
- Christopher Sean Morrison of the U.S. Army Research Laboratory;
- Gregory Miller of the Open Source Digital Voting Foundation;
- Gunnar Hellekson, chief technology strategist for Red Hat’s U.S. Public Sector group and co-chair, Open Source for America;
- J.J. Toothman of NASA’s Ames Research Center;
- Dan Melton, technical director of Code for America;
- Jonathan Russell of the U.S. Naval Postgraduate School;
- Michael Keating and Nick Grossman of OpenPlans;
The Oregon State University Open Source Lab is the home of world-class hosting services for the Linux operating system, Apache web server, the Drupal content management system and more than 50 other leading open source software projects
