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Miguel is a Physicist with Canada's Federal Government; he talked about the [http://documentation.wikia.com/wiki/METRo METRo] project. Miguel developed a Road Temperature Modeling program for the Federal Government, and open sourced the program after the fourth iteration.
Though Miguel talked about the history of the software he works on, the main point I took from his talk was the position of the Federal Government on software usage. Miguel explained that the Federal Government takes a 'balanced approach' to the software it uses. Which I understand as "we use what is the most practical for us." (I feel skeptical of that because of [http://cdneducation.blogspot.com/2007/10/so-is-microsoft-dictating-what-is-used.html education scandlesscandals]). Though I feel skeptical of the government about all things most of the time, METRo is a proof that there is a push towards the open source model in our Canadian Politics.
Miguel has received contributions from about 4 or 5 people after releasing METRo as open source. METRo still has a very small community.
