(Justmeans.com / CSR News) - Many organizations now rely on open source software, ranging from the famed Linux operating system to its web-server cousin Apache, right down to curiously named programs like jboss, tomcat, Moodle, Drupal, mailman, SugarCRM, Zimbra, Asterisk and smarty.

But how many have adopted open source processes? The programmer communities that designed those applications (and the Internet they mostly ride) developed principles and practices that are broadly useful. These include keeping the code and the conversations completely open to outsiders, governance and licensing models, and platform and interoperability strategies.

We have an opportunity to take a quick, deep dive into a particular situation where these dynamics are at work.

Brian Behlendorf was part of the original Apache web server community. Now he's helping the U.S. Dept. of Health and Human Services apply open-source principles to health IT. His focus is on a public-private partnership program called NIHN and its open-source project, CONNECT.

We'll talk with Brian about the dynamics of collaboration between private and public entities that work in this extremely complex health IT environment and have a lot at stake.

Join us on Monday, March 8, 2010 at noon ET (9am PT) for the call:

• Phone number: +1 (213) 289-0500
• Code: 267-6815

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