The center was established in January 2006, providing information, development support, research, experiment and demonstration, from the direction of a variety of open source software (OSS) has been working to promote.
April 2008, IPA in the medium-term plan we enter the second phase, and "open standards" ★ introduced a new software dissemination activities and goals, the center named "Open Source Software Center," will be revised MASHITA.
(★) "open standards", issued in March 2007 was "Information pertaining to the system's basic guidelines for government procurement" in "as a general rule, (1) was held under the participation agreement is a process And implement a specific level of specification is published, (2) can be used by anyone, and (3) technology standards to achieve more than one product to the market, to meet all It is a technology standard. "Are explained.
By sharing the wisdom, and will create good software (open source), by sharing specifications and software that expands the choice of (an open standard) as the car's wheels, to support community Software is an important element.
Both of these open software center will strive to promote.
Open Source Software Center, the following services are offered on the Internet.
OSS iPedia
To promote the use of OSS for the purpose of promoting and, OSS use, for example, open-source technology information and organize basic knowledge about the OSS is a database-related information.
OSS Open Laboratory
OSS and OSS developers and users from using the system to support the development of a common rating environment as a diverse set of software tools for them via the Internet from remote locations available to the system .
