NewsForge covers the recent "Open Standards/Open Source for National and Local eGovernment Programs in the U.S. and EU" conference held in Washington DC last week. "One GSA (General Services Administration) representative felt that this conference's primary benefit was that it showed him he was not alone; that there was more open source being used in more places within the federal government than he had thought. Not only that, he said he learned some helpful tricks from some of the sessions and -- best of all -- hooked up with several people from other agencies whose needs are similar to his, with whom he can cooperate on several projects, thereby increasing development and deployment efficiency even more."

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