Linux and Main: Linux Community Notables Join Thinktank

“The George Washington University is pleased to announce that
Brian Behlendorf, Miguel de Icaza, Hans Reiser, Jay Beale, Jeffery
‘hemos’ Bates, Russell Coker and Brian May, all world-renowned
leaders in the Open Source movement, have joined its Cyber Security
Policy and Research Institute (CSPRI). They join Bruce Perens,
Rishab Ghosh, Martin Dean, Adam Turoff, John Viega and Tony Stanco,
who are already part of the Open Source team at CSPRI.

“‘I am quite interested in seeing the public sector adopt Open
Source technologies, but even more interested in helping the public
sector understand that it can work with the Open Source community
to promote open standards, open systems and open government,’ said
Brian Behlendorf, founder of APACHE, a decentralized community of
developers working on Open Source software projects. ‘Governments
the world over, from China to Germany to Brazil to Canada, are
moving aggressively in this direction. I am honored to be asked to
serve in an advisory role on these issues at CSPRI…'”

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