{"id":2877,"date":"2009-07-23T09:40:46","date_gmt":"2009-07-23T14:40:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/?p=2877"},"modified":"2009-07-23T09:41:39","modified_gmt":"2009-07-23T14:41:39","slug":"ibiblio-a-founder-of-open-source-for-america","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/ibiblio-a-founder-of-open-source-for-america\/","title":{"rendered":"ibiblio, a founder of Open Source for America"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/opensourceforamerica.org\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/ibiblio.org\/images\/july2009\/osa.png\" alt=\"Open Source for America\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\n<strong>ibiblio helps found open-source advocacy group<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>CHAPEL HILL &#8211; ibiblio, a conservancy of freely available information on the Internet based at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, is a founding member of a new group aiming to promote use of open-source technology by the federal government.<\/p>\n<p>The new group announced today, Open Source for America, is a cross-section of more than 50 companies, universities, communities and individuals holding that government can and should become more transparent, participatory, secure and efficient by using open-source software.<\/p>\n<p>The group also holds that the open-source community can drive collaborative innovation for government; and that a decision to use software should be driven solely by the requirements of the user. For more information about Open Source for America, visit http:\/\/opensourceforamerica.org.<\/p>\n<p>The term &#8220;open source&#8221; refers to software that is distributed with its source code, so that user organizations and vendors can modify it for their own purposes. Most open-source licenses allow the software to be redistributed without restriction under the same terms of the license. For more information, visit opensource.org.<\/p>\n<p>ibiblio, accessed at www.ibiblio.org, was one of the world&#8217;s first Web sites and is the largest collection of collections on the Internet. It is supported by UNC&#8217;s School of Information and Library Science and School of Journalism and Mass Communication.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We&#8217;re delighted to help explain and promote the rewards and benefits of open sources to the government sector,&#8221; said Paul Jones, director of ibiblio and clinical associate professor at both schools. &#8220;Open code is a giant step toward providing the kind of transparency and accountability that democracies require.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Only two North Carolina universities are represented in Open Source for America: Carolina and N.C. State University in Raleigh. Others represented are the University of California&#8217;s Irvine and Merced branches; Carnegie Mellon; Oregon State University; and the University of Southern Mississippi.<\/p>\n<p>ibiblio&#8217;s goals include expanding and improving the creation and distribution of open-source software; continuing UNC programs to develop an online library and archive; hosting projects that expand the concepts of transparency and openness; and serving as a model for other open-source projects.<\/p>\n<p>School of Information and Library Science contact: Wanda Monroe, (919) 843-8337, wmonroe at unc.edu<\/p>\n<p>School of Journalism and Mass Communication contact: Kyle York, (919) 966-3323, sky at unc.edu<\/p>\n<p>News Services contact: LJ Toler, (919) 962-8589<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ibiblio helps found open-source advocacy group CHAPEL HILL &#8211; ibiblio, a conservancy of freely available information on the Internet based at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, is a founding member of a new group aiming to promote use of open-source technology by the federal government. 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