The purpose of the OpenGov Community Summit Series is to convene thought leaders in the public, private, and citizen sectors to share knowledge and build a community of practice that is passionate about open government.  Each of the events is held at a different federal agency.

Throughout 2010, we held one event every 6-8 weeks which convened broad cross sections of the community.  Now that the conversations around open gov have gotten deeper and more specific, we are making corresponding changes to the summit series.  Throughout 2011 there will be only 2-3 of these broad summits and instead we will place more emphasis on "focus forums" that are relevant to individual agencies.  The first event is scheduled for February 18, 2011 and will be formally announced in January.  If you're not already on our mailing list, please sign up on the form underneath the video on this page.

October 13, 2010 OpenGov Community Summit @ NASA

• Master list of notes for all sessions

September OpenGov Community Summit @ EPA

(We chose to not emphasize notes at this workshop)

July OpenGov Community Infrastructure Meeting @ USDA

(We chose to not emphasize notes at this workshop)

May 24, 2010 OpenGov Community Summit @ Treasury

• Evolution of OpenGov Community: Best Case Scenario
• Evolution of OpenGov Community: Worst Case Scenario
• Evolution of OpenGov Community: Most Likely Scenario
• Specific Action Items: What can be done to help the OpenGov Community evolve? Who should do it?
• Data Sharing- How to Break Down the Historic Barriers
• Getting a Grip on Public Comments- Response/Engagement Expectations
• How Do We ID and Train OpenGov Leaders?
• How Do We get Everyone Interested in OpenGov?
• Finding High Value Datasets throughout the Department
• Establishing Useful, Realistic Standardized Outcome Measures

April 28, 2010 Open Government Directive Workshop @ USDA

• How to inventory all of your agency's datasets?
• Culture/Behavior Change: How do you get early buy-in from top management?
• If a citizen comes to our site, expecting openness, what do they get?
• How do we measure performance in a way that is meaningful to leadership and the public?  What woudl the public view as good indicators of success in open gov?
• Hot potato, hot potato: How do we embrace ownership fo open gov when cross functional ownerhsip is crucial?
• How do we value participation and reward it in our culture?
• How do we overcome fear of criticism in the executive team and fear of retribution for employee participants?
• How do we organize our own data and info using it intelligently and selectively decide what we can/should share with the public?
• How do we navigate the chaos of commentary?
• Notes from remote participation in the April Workshop

February 17, 2010 Open Government Directive Workshop w/ GSA

Here is the report from the Feb 17th OGD Workshop.  You may also want to see the workshop teams' individual pages: Team #1, Team #2, Team #3,Team #4 (online team), video of all four presentations.  Here are the notes, video and slides for each of the previous workshops.  Here is a starting point for some general (Agency agnostic) requirements for a next-gen open platform for social networking and community contributed apps and gadgets.

January 11, 2010 Open Government Directive Workshop @ DOT

Presentations and Video

• Beginning of Conference and Inter-agency Panel
• Citizen Engagement Platform: (General Services Administration)
• URL Shortening: (USA.Gov)
• Connecting with Public Stakeholders: (Regulations.Gov Exchange) 
• Trucking towards a Virtual World: (US Department of Transportation)
• Open Government at the Veterans Health Administration: (Department of Veterans Affairs)
• Virtual Research Environments: (National Institutes of Health)
• Expanding Participation in Regulatory Processes: (Nuclear Regulatory Commission)
• White House's Move to Drupal: (WhiteHouse.Gov)
• CO.NX, X-Life, and the Growing Role of Social Media: (Department of State)
• Open Identity for the Open Government Initiative: (National Institutes of Health)

1pm Workshop Sessions

• Putting Your Government Desktop in the Cloud
• Public Comment and Mass Emails
• Planning for the OGD Requirements
• How are Agencies Managing Two Way Government-Citizen Engagement and Feedback?
• Citizen Voice in OGD Plans, Projects, and Federated Access
• Tech is Nice, but This is about Culture Change
• Open Government and Small Business
• Template for Integrating Social Media Tools / Open Government Concepts into High Level Strategic and Operating Plans

2pm Workshop Sessions

• GovLoop as a Forum for OGD Step 3- Sharing Best Practices and Transparency
• Get your Questions about the OGD and Data.Gov Answered by the Administration (added on Feb 10th)
• How to Influence Your Agency from the Outside
• What Should be the Role of Bureaus in the Design and Implementation of the OGD?
• Successful Participation Offline and Online

3pm Workshop Sessions

• Creating Re-Use and Best Practice Sharing for Agency OGD Plans and Projects
• How Do You Measure Success?

News Coverage of the Jan 11th Workshop

• How Agencies are Kick-Starting their Open Gov Compliance in OhMyGov!
• Article in Next Gov by Aliya Sternstein
• More Questions than Answers for Now by Steve Radik
• Open Government Workshop Brings Promising Ideas by Chris Golden
• Feds Convene at Open Government Workshop by Bryan Rahija
•  TweetBook of the Participants' Comments on Twitter During the Workshop

November 16, 2009 Open Government Directive Workshop

Presentations and Video

• Open Government Strategy Development and Implementation Framework: (Department of Transportation) A framework for transforming an organization through effective change management.
• Plain Langauge: (Plain Language Institute) The importance and return on investment for engaging an audience in plain language.
• Engaging Citizens in Government: (General Services Administration) Discussion of deeper potential methods of citizen engagement
• Creating Social Media Policy: (MiXT Media Strategies) How federal agencies can intelligently engage with social media.
• Public Engagement Process: (EPA) An overview of effective public engagement practices for federal agencies.
• Knowledge and Collaboration at the Department of State: (Department of State) Discussion of a range of innovative initiatives.
• Consequential Public Engagement: (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention) Discussion of case studies over the past five years
• TSA: A Social Media Success Story: (Transportation Security Administration) The TSA turns a potential social media crisis into an opportunity
• Drug Facts Chat Day: (National Institutes of Health-NIDA) High school students learn facts about drug use from scientists rather than experimentation
• The Conscience Unconference: (US Holocaust Memorial Museum) Harnessing citizen ideas for social good
• Open Government Support for the Deprtment of Defense: (Binary Group and Department of Defense)
• The Webolution Experience: (Defense Intelligence Systems Administration)
• Open Defense: (Department of Defense)
• Linked Open Architectures for Open Government: (Model Driven Solutions and DoD)

Blog Coverage of the November 16, 2009 OpenGov Workshop:

• Forum One's Blog
• Mark Drapeau's Blog
• Jenn Gustetic's Blog

Other Case Studies and Effective Open Government Practices

• Transparency case studies
• Participation case studies
• Collaboration case studies 

Video Archive from the Gov 2.0 Expo Showcase, September 2009

• Opening Welcome
• A-Space: Changing the Way the Intelligence Community Does Analysis by Joan McIntyre (Office of the Director of National Intelligence)
• AreYouSafe? -- Municipal and Federal Data Extraction, Mash-up, and Visualization by Brian Sobel (InnovationGeo)
• Arkansas Recovery Portal, Online & iPhone Applications by Claire Bailey (Arkansas Department of Information Systems )
• Automated Mutual Assistance Vessel Rescue System by the United States Coast Guard by Benjamin Strong (U.S. Coast Guard)
• City of Santa Cruz Offers Blueprint for Solving CA Budget Crisis with Social Media by Peter Koht (City of Santa Cruz)
• CrimeReports.com: Engaging the Public in Neighborhood Law Enforcement by Greg Whisenant (CrimeReports.com)
• Crowdsourcing Federal Court Transparency by Stephen Schultze (Berkman Center for Internet & Society at Harvard)
• D.C. Government Trades Spreadsheets for Transparency and Accountability by Chris Willey (D.C. Office of the Chief Technology Officer)
• DataSF: San Francisco on the Road to Openness by Kelly Pretzer (San Francisco, Office of Economic and Workforce Development)
• Digital Diplomacy: Understanding Islam through Virtual Worlds by Rita King (IBM Analytics Virtual Center)
• DoDTechipedia Family of Services by Noel Dickover (Department of Defense Chief Information Officer (DoD CIO), Commercial Technologies & Systems Directorate (contractor))
• Government as a PARTNER Panel Discussion by Steve Lunceford (Deloitte Consulting), Hillary Hartley (NIC Inc.)
• Government as a PEACEKEEPER Panel Discussion by Dan Mintz (CSC), Steve Ressler (GovLoop.com)
• Government as a PROCESS Panel Discussion by Brian Drake (Deloitte Consulting), Steve Radick (Booz Allen Hamilton)
• Government as a PRODUCT - Apps for America by Clay Johnson (Sunlight Labs), Michael Knapp (GreenRiver.org), Joe Pringle (Forum One), Jeremy Ashkenas(DocumentCloud), Dave Augustine (WestEd)
• Government as a PROTECTOR Panel Discussion by John Bordeaux (Stupski Foundation), Lewis Shepherd (Microsoft Institute for Advanced Technology in Governments)
• Government as a PROVIDER Panel Discussion by Jeffrey Levy (U.S. Environmental Protection Agency), Amanda Eamich (U.S. Department of Agriculture)
• How the Military Health System uses Integrated Social Media Channels to Better Connect and Engage with its Stakeholders by Donald Jones (Booz Allen Hamilton)
• Invisible City (augmented reality) by Rob Rhyne (Digital Arch Design)
• MyEnvironment: Environmental Information for Your Community by Kim Balassiano (USEPA)
• Neighbors for Neighbors - Connecting Neighbors to Each Other and Government Resources by Joseph Porcelli (Neighbors for Neighbors, Inc.)
• Open Architecture Network: An Open Management System for Government Projects by Mike McCaffrey (Architecture for Humanity)
• Open311 - A Platform for a Participatory Civic Infrastructure by Philip Ashlock (The Open Planning Project)
• SeeClickFix: You Can Web Enable Your Town in 5 mins. No Batteries Required. by Ben Berkowitz (SeeClickFix)
• Spacebook: Lessons Learned from NASA's Enterprise Social Network by Emma Antunes (NASA)
• The Democracy Video Challenge - Engaging Youth Through New Technology by George Clack (Bureau of International Information Programs, U.S. State Department)
• Toward Living Intelligence by Chris Rasmussen (U.S. Intelligence Community)
• Transit 2.0 at BART.gov by Melissa Jordan (Bay Area Rapid Transit)
• Transportation Security Administration's IdeaFactory: Social Media and Securing America by Tina Cariola (Transportation Security Administration)
• txts 4 africa by Merrick Schaefer (UNICEF)
• Utah Department of Public Safety Media Portal by Jeff Nigbur (Utah Department of Public Safety)
• Web 2.0 and the Communications Effort Surrounding the Peanut Product Recall by Dan Luxenberg (FDA)