FedOSS: Big data and sqrrl, government RWD frameworks and the future of open source

FedScoop’s Luke Fretwell and Red Hat U.S. Public Sector Chief Technology Strategist Gunnar Hellekson discuss the latest in federal government open source software.

Big data open source startup sqrrl Vice President of Business Development Ely Kahn discusses the company’s history, entrepreneurial inspiration, growth, product offering and data security. Inspired by a Google Bigtable research paper, sqrrl’s technology is based on the National Security Agency Accumulo project that began in 2008. Members of the original Accumulo team started sqrrl in 2012.

Also:

• New York state goes GitHub and develops a state-wide responsive design framework.
• Results from the 2013 Future of Open Source Survey.
• White paper: Belt-Tightening in Public Sector Puts New Pressure on Application Developers