With ‘Government 2.0‘ receiving a disproportionate amount of coverage in the press lately (due in part to the new administration’s focus on transparency – a good thing in my opinion), there have been a number of pundits who have asked, ‘When will we know that we’ve reached Government 2.0, and how long is that going [...]
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As I thought about the title for this post, I realized I’d be taking my chances with it from a hype and buzzword perspective. If there were ever two concepts that are emblematic of where we are today in technology, it would have to be ‘Community’ and ‘Government 2.0‘. Unfortunately, they are also two of [...]
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WOW! That’s about all I can say about the experience I just went through at the DISA Partner Conference last week in Anaheim, CA. The Orange County city is known primarily for its local attractions (e.g. – Disneyland), but the biggest excitement I saw last week was the official unveiling of the Forge.mil system. Last [...]
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As I sit here in the offices of CollabNet on a Friday evening, wrapping up final tasks before heading to Anaheim next week for the DISA Partner Conference, I’m heartened by news that we received about an hour ago. The Forge.mil system has officially been granted IOC (Initial Operational Capability) status by DISA. This may [...]
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I’m on my way back to the San Francisco Bay Area from my trip to our nation’s capital for both the ‘Introduction to Forge.mil’ webinar, as well as Government 2.0 Camp, a ‘barcamp-style’ ‘unconference’ focusing on collaboration and social media in the government sector. Side note – WiFi on Virgin America is completely awesome! Of [...]
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The Forge.mil team is very excited about the progress we’ve made in a short time (about two months of ‘Beta’ availability), and we are working toward our launch window of early April (prior to the DISA partner conference in Anaheim CA on 20 April 2009). The first of our five community properties (software.forge.mil) is online, [...]
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I’m sitting in beautiful Charleston, SC, where I just finished attending the Forge.mil release 1 review/release 2 planning meeting. There were some great discussions that occurred, since we had almost the entire deployment/development team here in the room (we ‘eat our own dog food’ by using the system to collaborate across geographies and DoD components [...]
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I’m happy to report that after a lot of work (and a significant amount still to come), we’ve launched an early access version of the Forge.mil and software.forge.mil collaboration capability for internal Department of Defense testers only. The launch is officially categorized as LOA (limited operational availability), and we have begun to onboard a limited [...]
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As promised, here is a quick rundown of where we are on the DISA forge.mil project: Very good progress made on PKI-enabling the CollabNet SourceForge and SVN products Initial drafts of site look & feel and content complete Initial draft of ‘Community Building Plan’ complete and ready for review There is still a lot of [...]
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The main reason I came to CollabNet five months ago was to have a chance to show companies how to do a better job of collaborating, utilizing Open Source (code and methodologies), and using the CollabNet SourceForge toolset to accomplish all of these goals. I’m happy to report that I’ve been given a chance to [...]
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