Probably a lot of you already know this, but I just found out by seeing Jez Humble joining them [1]:
Apparently the US government is funding a fully FLOSS-based "consultancy" to "build the 21st century US government": https://18f.gsa.gov/
They have a nice Open Source policy and a lot of Github projects: https://github.com/18F/open-source-policy
I'm not sure, but I haven't seen anything comparable (well funded government initiative with a lot of FLOSS projects) at least in Germany.
Maybe you can correct me and share any comparable European initiatives with such "manpower" and number of FLOSS projects..
- Henning