Shalom,
camping time might be over but not the struggle for lowering living
costs. Hereby I appeal to the Hamakor leadership to start an online
campaign to lobby government to adopt Linux and other FOSS in all its
institutions (+army, schools/universities, etc..) as long as the issue
with the stolen credit cards numbers is still hot. I wrote a letter to
the Minister of Science and Technology (Prof. Hershkowitz) urging him to
initiate migration of government's entire IT infrastructure to
open-source software. I mentioned all the countries that have already
done it - from US to Cuba
( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Linux_adopters#Government ); sad
that Israel is behind many 3 world countries in this regard. Several
years ago somebody tried to pass a law in Knesset to do just that,
however I don't think there is a need for this to be a law rather it can
be done as simple government's regulation. I'm sure he will not listen
to me, however considering general revolutionary atmosphere in the
region the time is right to try to push them on this issue. What do
think about sending a chain email (CC to all Israeli FOSS mailing lists)
with a link to an online petition form(/Facebook page) and
emails/fax/telephone numbers of Prime Minister, Minister of Defense and
Minister of Science and Technology asking people to kindly request from
the government to stop wasting tax payers' money and thus rising our
cost of living [I'm wondering whether they have discussed this point in
Trachtenberg committee] while providing us with faulty IT infrastructure
and exposing our highly sensitive personal data to the enemy? Hamakor
leaders should be ready to speak to the ministers once they are ready to
listen.
Here are their contact details:
(for those who do not have fax at home:
http://www.freefax.co.il/upload.php )
Prime minister
http://www.pmo.gov.il/PMOEng/PM/Write+to+PM/
Ministry of Defense
http://www.mod.gov.il/pages/general/contact.asp :
email: pn...@mod.gov.il
tel: 03-6975540 , 03-6975423
fax: 03-6976711
Ministry of Science and Technology
http://www.most.gov.il/About+the+Ministry/Contact+Us/default.htm
minis...@most.gov.il
tel: 02-5411100 , 02-540
fax: 02-5811613
This guy is close to the minister, so you can contact him directly:
Zion Yarom: 02-5411107 050-5804007
z...@most.gov.il
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