> -----Original Message-----
> From: Steve Shorter [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Wednesday, July 10, 2002 9:29 AM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Re: [admin] what are we doing? (was Re: [admin] CLUE)
>
>
> On Wed, Jul 10, 2002 at 08:16:01AM -0400, Matthew Rice wrote:
> >
> > I'm hoping that the BoD members will be able to understand and
> > appreciate the value of cooperation between LUG and the
> general Linux
> > community as well as the business and government sectors.
>
> There is some organizing begining around getting Free
> Software into the Public Sector. There has been a lot of
> activity in Europe and elswhere around this issue. Many
> people think that there are many benifits to the
> introduction/conversion of Public Sector technology to Open
> Source/Free Software in Canada. Here is a link
>
> http://www.memeshadow.net/npiwiki/index.php
>
>follow the "Free Software in Government" link.
>
> Is this the type of thing that CLUE is interested in promoting (ie.
Free Software in the Public/Government >Sector)
I think so, yes. I've just skimmed the NPI site and it conincides with a
point that was brought up at the Debian Conference last weekend at York
University. The point was regarding advocacy and stated that one avenue for
increasing the use of Linux and opensource solutions in Canada is to
encourage political and social activist groups to utilize it as their
technology platform of choice. I know it seems rather obvious that this
should already be the case, but I assume the person making the point already
knew that it wasn't. I realize this isn't exactly the same as promoting
Linux and opensource in the Public/Government sector but it's similar.
Bill
>
> -steve
>
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