S.A. Parliament - Ubuntu Matter of Interest

[Paul Schulz]

Dear pengo,

I would be happy to help prepare and review such a document.

There are people on this list who have more information on case
studies etc. and there are also others who can help put the
appropriate South Australian emphasis on such a paper.

In particular I am thinking of the Bettong.Org[1] and the
Air-Stream[2] folk. There has also work being done by CISA[3] in the
area of ICT resources for not-for-profit groups.

It's a pity this wasn't raised earlier, as the recent Software Freedom
Day[4] saw groups getting together all across the contry, (two in
South Australia[5,6]), to celebrate Free and Open Source Software, and
promote it within the wider community.

Cheers,
Paul Schulz (ubuntero)

[1] - Bettong.Org - http://bettong.org
[2] - Air-Stream Community Wireless - http://air-stream.org
[3] - Communit Information Strategies Australia Inc. - http://www.cisa.asn.au/
[4] - http://sofftwarefreedomday.org
[5] - Software Freedom Showcase, Mawson Centre - http://sfs.mawsonlakes.org
[6] - Software Freedom Day Expo, Hallet Cove -
http://southernvaleslug.org/~sfd2006/

On 9/23/06, pengo at pengo.us <pengo at pengo.us> wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I work as Andrew Evan's legal / policy advisor (Member of the
> Legislative Council, South Australia - Family First).
>
> Every few months in parliament, a Member will raise a 'matter of
> interest' on a topic. Mr Evans has made submissions on open source
> software in the past, in a second reading speech. There's a _chance_ we
> could submit something about Ubuntu (Eft?) / open source later this year
> or early next year, if nothing else comes up urgently in the meantime.
>
> It would be a way for us to get some great advertising for Ubuntu / open
> source amongst the State leaders. A good slant would be the cost and
> other benefits to having more open source software / Ubuntu in S.A.
> schools and government organizations.
>
> Highest quality is required for parliamentary submissions (no 1337
> speak!). Could you please work out who would be good at writing two or
> three pages up for parliament.
>
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