CEW#56 - Break Out Group Five (3CBG)
Use these questions to frame your discussion. Develop questions/issues for further exploration during the two afternoon fishbowl sessions. (3CBH)
What's Needed to Create a Conducive Acquisition Environment for Open Technology Development? (3CBI)
- 1. What Works? (3CBJ)
- Discussion of testing methods/methodologies to ensure the quality of the developed open source code. (3CD4)
- Defined architecture - apply strict configuration management to it. (3CD5)
- Maturity associated with Shrink Wrap OSS. More effective and economical. (3CD6)
- Take the distinction out between Open Source and Closed Source. I.E. drive vendors toward open source standards. (3CD7)
- 2. What Doesn't Work? (3CBK)
- Risk assocaited with single contract approach - doesn't drive best of breed. (3CD8)
- Cannot prescribe to the open source communinity as to what to build. (3CD9)
- Fed Gov contracting process for Application acquisition does not encourage OSS. How to develop with additional rigour to support resuability and OSS. Part of resourcing model issue. (3CDA)
- How do we improve adoption process for OSS. Needs to be a community effort to encourage adoption. (3CDB)
- How does the Fed Gov incent vendors to offer/provide OSS. (3CDC)
- 3. What Do We Need to Know? What do we need to know from suppliers? (3CBL)
- How to define best of breed. Where do you define/capture this. (3CDD)
- Need a maturity index for Open Source. Is it ready to be used and leveraged, beyond simply being "open source". (3CDE)
- What is the starting point for injecting OSS? Nature of RFP? (3CDF)
- Cost model for OSS to help rationalize/support decision. ROI/EVMS?? (3CDG)
- Legacy migration methodologies that support OSS application. (3CDH)
- Methodologies for effective application of OSS. (3CDI)
- Is training an issue? Do we have the skill and capability to modify/support the OSS code. (3CDJ)
- 4. What Do We Need to Create? What is the role(s) of suppliers? (3CBM)
- How might the government prescribe a concern/need that the open source community might respond to. Market response based on risk and reward of responding. (3CDK)
- How do we establish a market. (3CDL)
- Is the government sector a unique open source market? (3CDM)
- Joint configuration management across the Fed Gov that would allow agencies to access and leverage the software components/systems that are out there. (3CDN)
- If software/components were to be contributed to an open source repository, who would provide the additional budget required to make it "open source ready". Part of OMB300 funding request under cost savings rational. (3CDO)
- Create an Open Source LOB ? Better opportunity to leverage OSS. (3CDP)
- Guidelines for Government as how they will absorb and manage OSS they adopt. (3CDQ)
- Wait for OSS to become "Shrink Wrapped" before they become adopted. Open source model around a closed model - something to consider. (3CDR)
- Who can maintain a repository of mature open source? (GSA?) A TRM for OSS? (3CDS)