Hello MLUG, Please find this letter as a little contribution to your young movement, and hope it can be interesting and usefull. Really nice to see that there are more people in Malta interested in Linux OS and FS/OOS since this year spring. Now I can post more frequently here, so be able to help you to some extents. Ramon talks about meeting since long time ago, so I hope it will eventually happen. I would be glad to join and meet you all.
Good day, Gregory Smirnov mob. 356 99 277 750 icq. 101672598
--- Begin Message ---Begin forwarded message: Date: Mon, 22 Sep 2003 10:18:46 +0200 From: Petter Reinholdtsen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [Devel] (fwd) URGENT: Request for correspondents for an European Union FS/OSS project (especially from Balkans & Baltic) I believe this should interest some of us here. Please try to assist this project. :) ----- Forwarded message from [EMAIL PROTECTED] ----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: URGENT: Request for correspondents for an European Union FS/OSS project (especially from Balkans & Baltic) Date: Sat, 20 Sep 2003 16:03:14 +0100 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.28i Hi, If you are in a position to report on the use of Free Software in the Public Sector in the EU, or are based in the Baltic or Balkans, or both, then Eddie Bleasdale would be interested in hearing from you SOON. He needs to put together a group of experts who can do monthly reports on best practice use of Free Software in Europe, so that he can tender for this EU project. Read below for details. This not only offers the opportunity to get paid for the work, but also to inject some sense into EU policy making. If you're even vaguely likely to qualify for this, please submit your CV to Eddie SOON --- He needs a convincingly broad list of experts to bid for this by 1 Oct, so he'll need to choose people before that if he's to hit the deadline. Cheers, Phil. ----- Forwarded message from Eddie Bleasdale <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ----- Subject: Good Practice in the use of Free / Open Source Software From: Eddie Bleasdale <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Philip Hands <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> This is to introduce Eddie Bleasdale who runs netproject. Over the last year netproject has been working with the European Commission on the issues the public sector will have to address in their migration to Open Source Software. A report on the findings will be published in the next few weeks and will be put up on the netproject web site as a Wiki. The European Commission has issued an Invitation to Tender for consultancy to: 'Encourage Good Practice in the use of Open Source Software (OSS) in Public Administrations'. This is a natural follow on to the work done on the 'Migration to Open Source Software'. A major part of the consultancy is to produce well documented case studies of public sector bodies that have implemented systems based on OSS. To do this netproject needs at least one correspondent in each of the following groups of countries: The correspondents or corresponding organisations must be capable of providing information on the issues related to use of open source software by the public administrations in their respective group of countries, namely: the Iberian peninsula, Italy and Malta the Balkan countries the UK and Ireland, Scandinavia and the Baltic countries France and the BeNeLux Germany, Austria, Czech Republic, Poland, Slovakia Correspondents will be required to produce outline reports on these developments, in English, on a monthly basis. Particularly notable events should be reported on immediately. European Commission also wants to establish a listing of open source e-Government solutions. It is desirable that the correspondents have good contacts in the public sector who would be prepared to provide outline details of any e-Government Open Source Solutions that can be shared with other Government and Public Sector bodies. If netproject is successful in being awarded this contract netproject will pay each correspondent selected a fee of 3,000 euro for the initial contract which will be for a period of 6 months. If the relationship works well and is mutually beneficial then contracts will be extended. It is envisaged by the European Commission that the project will last 26 months. There could also be additional consultancy. A part of the contract is to produce specific papers on issues that the European Commission considers important in the use of Free / Open Source Software. It is proposed that some of this work will be sub-contracted to suitably qualified correspondents. netproject needs to get its correspondents together as quickly as possible. The proposal has to be completed and in the post by 1st Oct, so an early response is essential. If you are interested please reply as soon as is possible directly to Eddie at [EMAIL PROTECTED] providing details that are specified below. Alternatively if you know of anyone who would be interested in becoming a correspondent for this project would forward this email to them. Regards Eddie Bleasdale Details that are required include: Encouraging Good Practice in the use of Open Source Software in Public Administrations Correspondents Profile Name: ____________________________________________ Address: ____________________________________________ ____________________________________________ ______________________ Post code: _____________ Country: ____________________________________________ Tel No: ____________________________________________ Email Addr: ____________________________________________ In brief please outline your experience with Open Source Software What experience do you have with the use of IT in the public sector Please supply any other information that may be relevant to your contribution this project -- Eddie Bleasdale netproject 124 Middleton Road Morden, Surrey, UK Tel: +44 (0)20 8715 0072 Mobile: +44 (0)7989 012847 ----- End forwarded message ----- _______________________________________________ Devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://init.linpro.no/mailman/skolelinux.no/listinfo/devel -- Best regards, Aigars Mahinovs mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] #--------------------------------------------------------------# | .''`. | | : :' : Debian GNU/Linux & LAKA | | `. `' http://www.debian.org http://www.laka.lv | | `- | #--------------------------------------------------------------#_______________________________________________ AKL(Atviras Kodas Lietuvai) mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.kalnieciai.lt/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/akl
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