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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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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