<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"> <html> <head> </head> <body bgcolor="#ffffff" text="#000000"> The public launch of the National Center for Open Source Policy and Research (NCOSPR) was announced today during a presentation at the Government Open Source Conference (GOSCON) hosted by the Oregon State University's Open Source Lab in Portland, Oregon. <br> <br> The National Center for Open Source Policy and Research (<a href="http://www.ncospr.org"; target="_blank">www.ncospr.org</a>) is a non-profit organization established to promote the use of open source software solutions within government IT enterprise environments for the benefit of government agencies, the general public and public sector entities. NCOSPR will accomplish this by serving as a facilitator and administrator of development and implementation services among government, academic, open source community and information technology (IT) industry developer, distribution and user communities. <br> The National Center consists of three (3) core component entities: a National Open Source Resource Center; an academic Open Source Center of Excellence; and an Open Source Public Policy Institute. <br> ...<br> <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://home.businesswire.com/portal/site/google/index.jsp?ndmViewId=news_view&newsId=20051014005362&newsLang=en";>http://home.businesswire.com/portal/site/google/index.jsp?ndmViewId=news_view&newsId=20051014005362&newsLang=en</a> </body> </html>