Boy Scouts of America Look to Open-Source Community for Help | Linux Today

Boy Scouts of America Look to Open-Source Community for Help

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Todd R. Weiss
Jun 10, 2008

“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…”


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