CollabNet's Guy Martin to Join Forge.mil's Aaron Lippold for OSCON 2011 Presentation

Pair to Discuss the Department of Defense's Use of Open Source Principles for Software Development. End Quote

(1888PressRelease) July 26, 2011 - BRISBANE, Calif. - CollabNet®, the leader in Agile development in the Cloud, announced today that Guy Martin, the company's community management and strategic consultant, and Aaron Lippold, the Chief Technology Officer of the Defense Information Systems Agency (DISA) on issues of security, information assurance, and open technology, DISA's Chief Information Assurance Executive, and a computer scientist and technical adviser for the Forge.mil project, will team up to present at OSCON 2011.

The pair will deliver a presentation titled, "Forge.mil Update: Continued Progress of the U.S. Department of Defense's Collaborative Software Development Environment." Forge.mil is powered by the CollabNet TeamForge® application lifecycle management (ALM) platform. More information about the presentation is available at http://www.oscon.com/oscon2011/public/schedule/detail/18728

WHO: CollabNet's Guy Martin and Forge.mil's Aaron Lippold

WHAT: A case study of the continued progress of the Department of Defense's (DoD's) Forge.mil initiative, which has garnered more than 10,000 members working on more than 500 projects since inception. Attendees will learn from first-hand experience how open source principles are transforming the way the DoD develops software, with an emphasis on updates and progress since last year's OSCON.

WHEN: 10:40 a.m. PDT, Thursday, July 28, 2011

WHERE: OSCON 2011
Oregon Convention Center
777 NE Martin Luther King, Jr. Blvd.
Portland, Oregon 97232
Location: F150

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