NHIN code-a-thon may change government attitude toward open source
Aug 28, 2009, 23:33 (0 Talkback[s])
(Other stories by Dana Blankenhorn)
"About 80 programmers, led by Apache developer (and Collabnet
employee) Brian Behlendorf, will spend about four hours trying to
stamp out bugs in the open source software gateway, which is based
on National Health Information Network (NHIN) conventions.
"Behlendorf’s presence is not ceremonial, as CollabNet
runs the military’s forge.mil open source forge site."
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