CEW#56 - Break Out Group Four (3CAX)
Use these questions to frame your discussion. Develop questions/issues for further exploration during the two afternoon fishbowl sessions. (3CAY)
What's Needed to Create a Conducive Acquisition Environment for Open Technology Development? (3CAZ)
- 1. What Works? (3CB0)
- 2. What Doesn't Work? (3CB1)
- Communities of one developer (contrast down). (3CCD)
- Assurance of interoperability. (3CCE)
- Assurance of responsible party for failures - especially in mixed environments. (3CCF)
- Deal with copyrights. (3CCG)
- Simply agreeing to open source software condition without legal involvement. (3CCH)
- Government control versus open source desire to innovate quickly. (3CCI)
- Acquisition cycle not supportive of open source, need an acqusition framework for assessing solution alternatives including open source. (3CCJ)
- 3. What Do We Need to Know? What do we need to know from suppliers? (3CB2)
- 4. What Do We Need to Create? What is the role(s) of suppliers? (3CB3)
- Ability to tracking to business requirements level and getting into open source development process. (3CCN)
- Clear set of definitions for open source, open systems, proprietary systems,proprietary developed source, public domain, to be clear in acquisition language. (3CCO)
- Definition of agility. (3CCP)
- A decision criteria for having access to source code. (3CCQ)
- Need to counter the perception that open source contaminates. (3CCR)
- Need a good awareness programs. (3CCS)