Melanie Chernoff

1130 points

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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Authored Content

What "open data" means—and what it doesn’t

Last week, an article in the Wall Street Journal talked about the Open Data Partnership, which “will allow consumers to edit the interests, demographics and other profile…

The White House gets open source

I love this video from Dave Cole (Senior Advisor to the CIO, Executive Office of the President) and Macon Phillips (White House Director of New Media). You hear the feds talk…

911: Can you hear me now?

For decades, first responders have dealt with a lack of interoperable communications products. The 9/11 Commission Report 1 and the Katrina Report 2 both concluded that the…

Larry Lessig takes on Washington

I had the opportunity to sit down with Larry Lessig last week. Co-founder of Creative Commons, law professor, author, and copyright guru, Lessig is a visionary of law and…

Where's my bus? Open data enables real-time route info for Boston riders

At Gov 2.0 Expo last week, Joshua Robin, the Director of Innovation and Special Projects at the Massachusetts Department of Transportation, described how MassDOT was inspired…

Liberate your documents.

An acquaintance emailed me a .docx file last week that my older word processor wouldn't open on the first try. Before you start sending me fixes, don't worry. I got it open…

Authored Comments

melanie

1 Jul 2011

Was Independence Day built the open source way?

Advocating a change from monarchy to republicanism was a bold move that I think can be argued to be rooted in one of the first modern "open government" movements. However, despite the laudable language in the preamble of the Constitution, we know that "we the people" were not all invited to be at the table of the new government. It's hard to fairly evaluate the Congress' actions in the context of today's views & expectations about transparency and collaboration in government.

melanie

1 Jul 2011

WEBCAST: HHS technology chief Todd Park talks with opensource.com

I have seen Todd Park speak, and he is phenomenal. Very excited about this webinar. Thanks!