SourceForge Director of Community Addresses Need for Open Information Exchange at Upcoming EPA Symposium

MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif., Oct. 14 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- SourceForge (Nasdaq: LNUX), http://www.sourceforge.net, the leader in IT community-driven media and e-commerce, today announced that its Director of Community, Ross Turk, will be a guest speaker at a symposium discussing "Building a Collaborative Ecological Causal Analysis Community." The symposium, taking place in Washington DC on October 13-15, aims to find ways of making a global information exchange sustainable and compelling.

"Open source is a good example of collaboration between users and creators, one that can be seen at a macro level," said Turk. "The reasons behind why people collaborate on projects, and continue to evolve those projects, can help set the framework for the symposium's discussion of why open information exchange is needed."

This event will bring together scientists, government officials and business leaders who have a vested interest, or background, in building collaborative databases and projects. In addition to discussing the potential behind a global information exchange, attendees of the symposium will be directing their energy toward establishing the next steps necessary to ensure this project gains traction and eventually comes to fruition.

Turk started his discussion of open source success stories at 9:15 a.m. on Oct. 14 at the Washington DC Doubletree Guest Suites Hotel, 801 New Hampshire Avenue, NW Washington, District of Columbia 20037.

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