>to US LoCo Teams <[email protected]>, >date Jan 30, 2008 12:46 PM >subject Re: [ubuntu-us] Idea: A How to Lobby Guide >mailing list ubuntu-us.lists.ubuntu.com Filter messages from this mailing >list > >I concur, we definitely need this documentation. We have large bodies >of groups who are capable of political action for free(open) file >formats, which is a top priority to close Bug #1. As a member of the >DC LoCo Team, I would be very interested in seeing the documentation >you guys come up with ... > >Thanks for the effort! > > -- Nick
On Jan 30, 2008 12:50 PM, M. Fioretti <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tue, Jan 29, 2008 23:33:51 PM -0500, Danny Piccirillo wrote: > > > How about we create a guide for people/teams to lobby their local > > governments for open formats, free software, and Ubuntu adoption? > > I am always interested to link to such guides from the resources > section of Digifreedom.net, please keep me posted even off list. > > Just a few notes: > > - speaking of free formats, there already is something, ideas at > least, at http://opendocumentfellowship.com > > - lobbying for open formats is always safe and 100% OK, if nothing > else because even proprietary sw vendors can adopt them and this > just destroys (if done well) any accusation or political pressure > they may try based on "communism", personal attacks, etc... while > removing the only real weapons they have to keep their monopolies > > - lobbying for free software... of course it's great, but it must be > done with balance. "Use Only FOSS tomorrow" or anything similar is > simply not realistic and usually backfires. > > - lobbying Ubuntu adoption... You actually mean lobbying a government > to adopt ONE specific sw "product" instead of all other ones??? If > yes, this wouldn't fly, I'm afraid. How would it be different > (perception-wise, of course) than lobbying for Windows Vista? And > why Ubuntu and not Fedora, OpenSuse, Mandrake, you name it? > Convincing governments to adopt and mandate by law really fair > *practices*, without specifying "product names", is a different > thing, of course. Far, far easier to do. > > A guide that doesn't _promote_ at all any distro above any other has > many more possibilities to succeed or at least be widely adopted, IMO. > > Marco > -- > Your own civil rights and the quality of your life heavily depend on how > software is used *around* you: http://digifreedom.net/node/84 > > -- > ubuntu-marketing mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Modify settings or unsubscribe at: > https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-marketing > I also agree that promoting just one distribution over any other would not work, although I do think that what would be useful is to include a list of places where the Government has already adopted FOSS, what they're using it for, and what software they're using. I think it may help our cause because it will make the politicians think twice before brushing us off as some obscure group of internet nerds. This link may be helpful: http://www.iosn.net/government Please correct me if I am wrong, but I do believe that one of the local governing bodies in Germany are in the process of switching their office systems over to a custom variant of SuSe ( I think )... AH! Here's a link: http://www.infoworld.com/article/03/09/17/HNgermanlinux_1.html -- Ubuntu-us mailing list [email protected] Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-us
