From:	Matthew Burton [matt@matthewburton.org]
Sent:	Thursday, August 26, 2010 1:03 PM
To:	matt@matthewburton.org
Subject:	Open Source ACH is now available

Analysis of Competing Hypotheses, a Web-based research utility originally 
built for the U.S. Intelligence Community, is now available under an open 
source license. You're receiving this email because you requested to be 
notified of this news at competinghypotheses.org 
<http://competinghypotheses.org/> , which you probably heard about from Wired 
<http://www.wired.com/dangerroom/2010/08/cia-software-developer-goes-open-
source-instead/>  or Government Computer News 
<http://gcn.com/Articles/2010/08/18/Open-Source-Intelligence-Analysis-
Software.aspx> .

Now that Open Source ACH is out, you can:


*	download the software for free
*	learn about the ACH methodology and how it can improve your work
*	become a contributor to the code repository

All project information is available at http://competinghypotheses.org 
<http://competinghypotheses.org/> . If this site doesn't answer your 
questions, write to me directly by responding to this email.

Our primary goal with this project is to get it into the hands of government 
users as quickly as possible. By releasing it for free and licensing it under 
the GPL, we are insuring that government agencies have a low barrier to entry 
and will not be locked in by proprietary code. If you would like to have your 
government organization install this software and need support making your 
case, don't hesitate to ask. 

Note that this is a one-time email and that you will receive no further 
information from me unless you subscribe to the Open Source ACH discussion 
group <http://groups.google.com/group/ach-users> . We also have a Twitter 
account @OpenSourceACH that will broadcast code updates, case studies, and 
other project-related news.


Thank you for your interest,
Matthew Burton
--
www.MatthewBurton.org <http://www.matthewburton.org/>