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Potvin, Joseph

 An Open Source ebXML Registry for eGov    Canada    Potvin, Joseph   Public Works and Government Services Canada   Workshop to Discuss Enterprise Architecture Documentation    Workshop to Discuss Enterprise Architecture Documentation ofthe        
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Mr. Potvin is a senior economist and systems architect, serving as a member of the management team of the Enterprise Architecture & Standards Directorate, Government Telecommunications and Informatics Program (GTIP), in Public Works and Government Services Canada. As the coordinator for a community of departmental experts on software architecture methods and processes, he is very active in increasing understanding and engagement by the Canadian Government of open source software business models, both for software production and the selection of existing solutions. His group is assisting two Government of Canada projects with the use of the open source ebXMLrr Registry/Repository, initiated at SUN Microsystems http://www.sourceforge.net/projects/ebxmlrr. In 1999-2000 he led one of the first open source software releases by the Government of Canada http://www.sourceforge.net/projects/opa, a project that is now heading to version 3.0. Outside of his government responsibilities, Mr. Potvin is Coordinator of GOSLING (Getting Open Source Logic INto Governments http://www.goslingcommunity.org), an emerging community of practice that helps professionals working for governments anywhere to understand how their organizations can benefit from engaging the open source business model in the selection and use of IM/IT solutions, as well as in their own production and sharing of solutions.