California now joins Massachusetts, Texas, and Minnesota in the league of US states that have moved towards adopting laws mandating use of open stadards in government agencies.
Getting Open Source Logic INto Government (GOSLING)Open Standards: And California Makes FourCalifornia now joins Massachusetts, Texas, and Minnesota in the league of US states that have moved towards adopting laws mandating use of open stadards in government agencies.
Open source advocates step up government lobby effortsAn article by ITBusiness.ca editor Shane Schick discusses the recent FLOSS MP awareness campaign by the GOSLING community which involved creating 308 envelopes of material, one per federal member of parliament.
My hope is that people will write their MP so that we can find out who the people are in parliament that are aware of FLOSS.
Glen Newton blogging Access 2006Glen Newton has posted a note about Day 1 of Access 2006 (Ottawa, October 11-14, 2006) on his personal BLOG. This includes discussion of Hackfest and Ad Hoc Fest. Glen was one of the founding members of GOSLING, back when there was only 4 of us. He is Program Head, Research - Information Technologies, Canada Institute for Scientific and Technical Information (CISTI), National Research Council (NRC).
Copyright related communications from Heritage Minister and Chair of Industry CommitteeAttached is a letter sent to the 3 named MPs. The staff from the offices of Mr. Rajotte, Mr McGuinty's and the Minister of Canadian Heritage have acknowledge receipt. (Note to staff receiving this message. Please indicate receipt. Thank you.) Dear James Rajotte, M.P., Chair of Industry-Science-Technology committee, I received reply letters from both Mr. Rajotte dated September 27 and, through Mr. McGuinty's office, a letter from Ms. Oda. dated July 7.
Ottawa Citizen: Open-sourcing the HillAn Ottawa Citizen article by David Reevely discussed the recent GOSLING MP awareness project.
It was Joe Fontana's hill staff that hosted an Open Source event on parliament hill on June 19th, 2006.
GOSLING story on CTV Ottawa's Tech NowCJOH (CTV Ottawa) did a piece this evening on Open Source software, featuring GOSLING's MP awareness project. This was based on interviews done earlier in the week.
French Govt to Adopt Open Document Format?All French government publications should use OpenDocument Format (ODF), a comprehensive report (PDF) commissioned by French prime minister Dominique de Villepin recommends. An article on InfoWorld mentions that the report also recommends a government research centre for open source security, and the creation of a system for government agencies - local & national - to exchange information in the use of open source software. All informative, vital, and timely, and quite possibly the basis for legislation soon. GOSLING members interviewed for CTV's Tech NowThis afternoon Mike Richardson and I (Russell McOrmond) were interviewed by a reporter for CTV's show Tech Now. Tech Now airs as part of the 6pm newscast each Sunday in Ottawa. The event that inspired the interview was a recent GOSLING project. A group of people in Ottawa got together to create 308 envelopes to send to each of the Members of the Canadian parliament. This envelope contained 2 CDs of Free/Libre and Open Source Software (FLOSS), as well as a number of pages and pamphlets of information. (Details of contents)
Feds put open source into active serviceAn ITBusiness.ca article by Shane Schick includes:
If you live in Ottawa and want to find out more about this project, you may want to attend a GOSLING Gaggle.
Ottawa Citizen article on the Government 2.0 Think Tank: Passion for progressAn Ottawa Citizen article by Peter Hum discusses the Government 2.0 Think Tank.
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