Getting US state govts hooked on FOSS: a success story

Joshua Judson Rosen rozzin at geekspace.com
Sat Sep 22 13:20:13 EDT 2012


I somehow stumbled onto this FOSS project run by the Washington State
Department of Transportation, the other day:

    http://www.wsdot.wa.gov/eesc/bridge/alternateroute/

>From the About page <http://www.wsdot.wa.gov/eesc/bridge/alternateroute/about.htm>:

    "The WSDOT Bridge and Structures Office is developing bridge
    engineering software tools. We plan to create small OLE Automation
    compatible objects that perform discrete engineering calculations
    that can be called from spreadsheets, scripts, and full-scale
    applications. We plan to create stand-alone desktop applications
    that perform design and specification checking for a variety of
    bridge types. We plan to create integrated suites of bridge
    engineering software tools for "top of deck" to "tip of pile"
    analysis. The list goes on and on. We will do all of this work using
    Open Source Software concepts and all of the resulting software
    products will be Open Source."

The project started in 1999, and has since produced a number of
notable FOSS packages that are in use by state governments all
throughout the US --like "the most widely used, most comprehensive
AASHTO LRFD precast bridge girder design software in the world",
PGSuper:

    http://www.pgsuper.com/


Very interesting stuff.

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