Acquia just launched a new Social Publishing for Open Government program to help U.S. federal agencies meet the government’s Open Government Directive (OGD).  The program provides government agencies with education and implementation services for using Drupal in general and to address OGD.  According to Acquia, services offered by the program include:

I received a press release announcing that REvolution Computing, a provider of software and support for the open source “R” statistical programming language had appointed R co-creator, Robert Gentleman, to its board of directors. The press release was a great impetus for me to look at R again. For background about R, Ashlee Vance wrote:

Reading Michael Tiemann’s notes for his Open World Forum speech I can’t help but think that he’s attributing a point of value to open source that is much more aligned to open standards based software.

Earlier this week Forrester released a report titled: “Open Source Software Goes Mainstream”.  While the title may not be breaking news to readers of Open Sources, the data backing up the report is well worth the read.  The report is based on responses from over 1100 software development decision makers in North American and European [...]