John Weathersby is the founder and executive director of the Open Source Software Institute, a U.S.-based non-profit organization whose mission is to promote adoption of open source software solutions within US Federal, state and local government agencies.
As the director of OSSI, Weathersby has served as an advisor on open source issues to a number of federal and state government agencies including: the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, Science & Technology Directorate; Assistant Secretary of Defense (Networks & Information Integration), DoD Chief Information Officer; Department of the Navy's Office of the CIO; and the Defense Information Systems Agency (DISA).
He is also a founding director of the Open Technology Research Consortium, a strategic alliance of leading academic research institutions and technology development organizations which focus on open technology solution implementation within government and public sector enterprise systems.
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