Fwd: [Ossg-announcements] HMG/OSSG Open Source Events
Joseph Dal Molin
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Subject: [Ossg-announcements] HMG/OSSG Open Source Events
Date: Wed, 14 Mar 2012 15:52:56 +0000 (GMT)
From: Mark Elkins <markel...@yahoo.co.uk>
Reply-To: Mark Elkins <mark_...@bcs.org>
To: ossg-anno...@ossg.bcs.org <ossg-anno...@ossg.bcs.org>
UK HMG/OSSG Open Source Awareness Events
A series of internal HMG events has been organized by the UK Home Office
and the BCS Open Source SG (OSSG) http://ossg.bcs.org/ for UK Civil
Servants. The background is that the UK Home Office is now responsible
for taking the lead in looking into Open Source adoption across the
whole of UK Central Government, hence the involvement with OSSG in
putting together these Open Source Awareness Events.
Feedback from the first event held on 21st February 2012 indicated a
positive initial reception and registrations for the second event to be
held on 20th March 2012 show there is a definite interest in the topics
being covered. Speakers look to have been fully sourced for events 3,4,
and 5. The composition of speakers for Event 6 is yet to be decided,
which will seek to cover solid examples of Open Source Software use,
ideally already being used somewhere within HMG or transferable to HMG.
There is discussion taking place within Home Office and HMG about the
possibility of taking these series events with OSSG further through the
use of a Roadshow across the various regions.
For the record here is the Timetable of events:
Web Applications - 21st February 2012
Web CMS: Drupal
Portal: Liferay
Social Working & Collaboration
Search: Solr/Lucene
Business Applications – 20th March 2012
CRM: SugarCRM
ERP/Finance: OpenERP, Adempiere
(double session)
Data Management and BI
Infrastructure – 17th April 2012
Monitoring: ZenOSS
Databases: Postgresql
Application Performance Testing: jmeter
Application Servers and Messaging: JBOSS
Desktop Backend - 15th May 2012
EDRM: Alfresco
Email / Calendaring: Zarafa, Zimbra
Authentication / ID: OpenAM/DJ/IDM
Workflow Engine / Case Management
Cloud Technologies – 12th June 2012
Cloud / VM management: Openstack
Storage: Cassandra
Compute: Hadoop
Public Sector Case Studies – 10th July 2012
TBA
Mark Elkins
Chair
OSSG