How Governments are Building Communities with Open Source

Government is helping lead open source adoption. One of the biggest growth areas in the public sector is using web technologies to help build communities. Using technologies like Moses, Drupal, Wordpress, Jabber, and others is helping to connect people in government, and governments to one another. Using open source to enable people to form connections and enhance informal communication is a major area where open source is leading within the public sector.

Building communities with both domestica and international organizations has helped me see some of this contribution first-hand. I would like to share my own experience of building a community for the US Department of Defense and showcase some of the contributions we're making to Drupal and other open source technologies.