George Washington University's Cyberspace Policy Institute
wants to help with SELinux. GW is a big security school in the area and
will be applying for various grants to help develop the additional security
features needed in SELinux, so that professors and grad students can
contribute.
Also, every third Saturday will be hosting SELinux
developers/sysadm meetings at the Computer School in downtown DC from 10am-1pm.
If anyone here is in the area and wants to present/lead sessions or just come
for fun, please join us. These will be technical sessions for developers,
students and sysadm in agencies in the area to create a community of practice to
help develop and deploy SELinux as a main e-gov platform in agencies (though
some e-com people will also likely be present). The World Bank is sending a
couple of their own technical people. I am also working with the UN and World
Bank to place SELinux in other universities to replicate what we are doing
at CPI, so a worldwide community of practice at major universities around
the globe develops to help make SELinux robust.
Finally, I have organized a SELinux demo to senior e-gov
officials (some very senior) with help from the GSA at NSF for Feb 19. (I am
demonstrating 1 or 2 different Open Source/Free Software projects every
month to show this stuff really exists, since some people still doubt it). Are
there people here who can help with the demo? Also, you are welcome to just
attend. The World Bank in DC has also asked for a demonstration, but a date has
not been set.
I asked Grant in October at an Open Source Working Group
session, if he wanted to see SELinux as the e-gov and e-com platform here and
abroad, and he yes. So this is what I have been able to accomplish since then.
If you have other suggestions on how to achieve this goal, please let me
know.
Please contact me for more information or to participate (also
if you just want to chat).
Best regards,