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Aseem is a graduate of Conrad Business, Entrepreneurship and Technology Center, Faculty of Engineering, University of Waterloo, Canada. He also holds a masters in computers application from Guru Nanak Dev University, Punjab, India. On Opensource.com, he serves as an author. He also blogs at http://aseemsharma.info/.
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Thanks for sharing Jason. I think there is a growing trend world over, especially, in the government sector to adopt open source software. The benefits in terms of cost effective and high quality solutions go a long way in devising a more strategic policy. In that direction some of the recent efforts and changes made by cities in Germany and private sector in India are worth noting as well.
The best things about open source is that it is a dynamically changing phenomenon (due to commitment of millions of people around the world) and the fact that all failures and successes of open source are open. It's evolution is much faster than the closed software methodology. The community learns, grows and gives back, and that is one of the foremost attraction to adopt the open source services and products.
This is a very helpful article David. I have a very strong interest in Open data and in that direction, I am updating my programming skills in Python. The resources in the article makes it easy for one to get involved with Open Data community.
On the same note, there is an upcoming Open data event in Canada:
http://www.humber.ca/news/first-ever-national-open-data-appathon-announced-humber