:Boy Scouts of America Look to Open-Source Community for Help
Boy Scouts of America Look to Open-Source Community for Help Jun 10, 2008, 13 :30 UTC (9 Talkback[s]) (4770 reads) (Other stories by Todd R. Weiss)
"Scouts honor--the 98-year-old Boy Scouts of America (BSA) organization is adopting open-source software as a path to building better software to support the almost 3 million scouts and 1.1 million adults who make up the group.
"Faced with the need for a streamlined, organized way for its more than 121,000 local scout troops to find and use software for fundraisers, event registration, facilities maintenance and more, the Irving, Texas-based BSA last month launched a Web site to begin its BSA Open Source Initiative..."