Speakers have just been announced for next month's OpenGovDC conference, and the one day event has a killer lineup of government folks who have implemented successful open source projects at their agencies.
Ian Cairns talks about being a project advisor in the Washington D.C. area helping Drupal projects as an independent consultant and non-vendor. He is helping coordinate between multiple vendors, but also advising on strategies for implementing Drupal especially when it's a cultural paradigm shift from proprietary CMS world.
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Reminiscent of those at WhiteHouse.gov
A friend of mine asked me if I could create a website for his small construction business.
There are only 50 tickets left for OpenGovDC, a one day deep dive looking at how open source tools can be used to advance open government through real world successful implementations.
Recently the White House released a listing of nearly 14,000 properties owned by the government that aren’t being used. President Obama has proposed getting rid of these excess properties, which could mean $15 billion in savings over the course of three years.

We were thrilled to learn recently that OpenPublic was chosen as the content management system for the White House's campaign to celebrate entrepreneurship throughout the nation.
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