[ Thanks to Jan
Stafford for this link. ]
“Under the banner of the LinuxWorld Conference & Expo 2005,
technology leaders from Massachusetts and Rhode Island used the
‘open’ atmosphere to discuss the growing Government Open Code
Collaborative (GOCC) and the development of new open source
applications by the Rhode Island Secretary of State’s office.“The GOCC, launched in June 2004, is an open source code
repository, based in the University of Rhode Island, where
participating states can deposit and withdraw code and view open
source projects being developed…”