Hi Bjoern, Bjoern Michaelsen wrote on 02/11/2019 16:55:
> I just recently came across this (German) video: > > https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MWDYep05wZQ > > by Anke Domscheit-Berg giving updates on "IT-Konsolidation des Bundes". It > does > not contain any huge revelations, but some details on the changes in german > federal procurement -- including possibly the slow acceptance of open source > as a > relevant feature -- is interesting. Thanks for sharing this.. > It might be worthwhile to follow Anke Domscheit-Berg to have early awareness > about opportunities for LibreOffice and Open Source in general to help pushing > things in the right direction. Regardless of political agenda, I dont think > there currently is any other federal german politician that offers these close > details on the development of german policy wrt digial topics. > > And yes, this is a very German thing -- but even outside Germany, it might be > useful -- e.g. for discussions on the EU level or simply to nag politicians Yes, that definitely is something I consider to be useful and a thing I do now and then, > elsewhere with "Look how transparent (some) German politicians are about their > digital agenda? Shouldnt you be too?" .. but to be honest, I tend to push not so much about being transparent rather directly open source and open standards. The example Anke gives towards the end - no clear os policy while there is a known strong dependency on US software vendors - is well chosen. Public administrations of course have a selective memory/view, and tend to use just information that supports their agenda. Cheers, Cor -- Cor Nouws GPD key ID: 0xB13480A6 - 591A 30A7 36A0 CE3C 3D28 A038 E49D 7365 B134 80A6 - vrijwilliger https://nl.libreoffice.org - volunteer https://www.libreoffice.org - Member Board The Document Foundation - http://www.nouenoff.nl / https://www.mijncloudoffice.nl -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: marketing+unsubscr...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? https://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: https://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/marketing/ Privacy Policy: https://www.documentfoundation.org/privacy
