Melanie Chernoff

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Raleigh, NC

Melanie Chernoff | As Public Policy Manager for Red Hat, Inc., Melanie monitors, evaluates, and works to influence U.S. and international legislation and government regulations affecting open source technologies and open standards. She also serves as chair of the company's Corporate Citizenship committee, coordinating Red Hat's charitable activities.

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Sound off: What is open government?

Hi Michael,

Thanks for your feedback. I would encourage you (if you haven't already done so) to post your comment on the Open Source for America website so it can be discussed there in the forum to improve the document.

btw- I completely agree with your comment about open standards. I know the committee at OSFA working on the Guidelines is planning to include language about standards in the revision b/c other folks have mentioned it in the comment process.

melanie
European Commission stands against vendor lock-in

Andy Updegrove once told me that "open standards can exist without open source, but open source can't exist without open standards." So thanks for the work you guys are doing on interoperability standards. We're all better off for it.