[OH-Publicity] Blog post idea: How the Dutch government worked to make OpenVPN the product they wanted

[Asheesh Laroia]

I think the blog could use more posts along the lines of, "We at OpenHatch 
teach you skills related to participating in open source communities. 
Here's a concrete example of why it's important."

One such story is the recent collaboration between the Dutch government, 
via a tech consulting firm, and OpenVPN. The nice thing about the story is 
that it seems to be a great example of one entity wanting some software to 
exist, and working with someone whose open source community communication 
skills made it possible to not just create that software, but make it part 
of the main OpenVPN project.

It's quite interesting to read the IRC logs and wiki discussions of the 
suggested changes here: 
https://community.openvpn.net/openvpn/wiki/PolarSSLintegration

Slashdot already covered it here: 
http://tech.slashdot.org/story/11/11/24/1827251/dutch-government-officially-trusts-openvpn-nl 
but I think it's quite topical for our readers.

So I'm curious if anyone on OH-Publicity would like to write a post about 
it! I imagine it could be as short as a one-paragraph note, or probably up 
to 3-5 paragraphs if you can find interesting tidbits to pull out of the 
story.

-- Asheesh.