Re: Open Source Bill at the Legislator

hi. On Jan 15, 2010, at 9:57 AM, Andrew Tomczak Act Locally. Connect Globally. Burlington Telecom: It's Your Network. wrote: Check out what showed up in my email this morning: http://www.leg.state.vt.us/docs/2010/Bills/Intro/H-516.pdf Should VAGUE write a joint letter of support for

Re: Open Source Bill at the Legislator

jonathan d p ferguson j...@sunforge.com writes: [1] The wiki has been Forbidden for a while now... The maintainer has been aware for a week or so, as well. -- ...jsled http://asynchronous.org/ - a=jsled; b=asynchronous.org; echo $...@${b}

Re: Git is good (was Open Source Bill at the Legislator)

On Sat, Jan 16, 2010 at 8:08 PM, jonathan d p ferguson j...@sunforge.com wrote: Indeed, I will volunteer for this. When and Where? *I might be able to handle the Where* My last presentation on FOSS and Game Development met with reasonable interest. I can't say that my examples will be

Re: Open Source Bill at the Legislator

Andrew, On Fri, Jan 15, 2010 at 4:31 PM, Andrew Tomczak Act Locally. Connect Globally. Burlington Telecom: It's Your Network. ajwsur...@burlingtontelecom.net wrote: I would think that the bill has just been introduced. It will probably see a few amendments. I think that it is correct in

Re: Git is good (was Open Source Bill at the Legislator)

hi. On Jan 16, 2010, at 3:19 PM, Bradley Holt wrote: Kevin, On Sat, Jan 16, 2010 at 2:56 PM, Kevin Thorley elron8...@gmail.com wrote: On Sat, Jan 16, 2010 at 12:06 PM, Bradley Holt bradley.h...@gmail.com wrote: As Rubin already pointed out, you don't need to give the general public write

Open Source Bill at the Legislator

Check out what showed up in my email this morning: http://www.leg.state.vt.us/docs/2010/Bills/Intro/H-516.pdfCheers, Andrew Tomczak System Developer II State of VT, ANR IT Department Old Laundry Building 103 South Main Street Waterbury, VT 05671 (802) 241-1043

Re: Open Source Bill at the Legislator

Wow! This is great news. Any idea where in the process this bill is? Richard On Fri, Jan 15, 2010 at 6:57 AM, Andrew Tomczak Act Locally. Connect Globally. Burlington Telecom: It's Your Network. ajwsur...@burlingtontelecom.net wrote: Check out what showed up in my email this

Re: Open Source Bill at the Legislator

I would think that the bill has just been introduced. It will probably see a few amendments. I think that it is correct in saying that State owned software should be Open Source, however, it puts a burden on all programmers working for the state to put in place, and maintain, an Open Source