Mark Bohannon

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Mark Bohannon | Mark Bohannon is Vice President of Global Public Policy and Government Affairs at Red Hat. Previously, he served as Senior Vice President, Public Policy and General Counsel at the Software & Information Industry Association (SIIA), the principal U.S. trade association for the software and digital content industry. Prior to his work at SIIA, he was a senior official at the U.S. Department of Commerce.

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The latest White House moves on open source: Connecting citizen developers to tools

This week, in the latest step to connect citizen developers with the tools they need to unlock government data, the White House updated their website to include a developers…

HuffPost releases Pollster, an open source API for managing election polling, fostering transparency

In case you haven't noticed, it's an election year in the United States. And with the election in full swing, there is a plethora of data, from a myriad of sources, about what…

Department of Commerce app challenge--an interview with Mike Kruger

Last month, the U.S. Department of Commerce (DOC) announced a "Commerce Business Apps Challenge" to developers to look for innovative ways to utilize the Department’s and…

The U.S. Government promotes open innovation--Is it now mainstream?

"We live in an open source world." For many readers of opensource.com, those words are probably a part of your daily life; in all likelihood, you take them for granted. They…

Governments take note: Open Document Format is updated and improved!

In an important development last week, Open Document Format (ODF) version 1.2 was adopted as an OASIS standard after four years of hard work. And it was approved with a strong…

Open source and the 'Cloud'

As policy discussions on the 'Cloud' unfold in Washington, Brussels and around the world, last week's Red Hat Summit in Boston, where more than 2,500 developers and software…