Canadian Gov RFI on FOSS

[Anita Kuno]

I tweeted the link and it got picked up by @ubuntutweets and was told that
the link would be forwarded to Mark Shuttleworth.

I encourage the discussion to continue, the more people that know about this
development the better.



On Thu, Feb 5, 2009 at 11:53 AM, Kenneth Hawkins <kjurkic at yahoo.ca> wrote:

> Does anyone here have a connection somewhere up the ladder at Canonical?
> Perhaps a message sent to someone with some influence there would be
> beneficial.
>
> Ken
>
> ------------------------------
> *From:* Eric <1ballistic1 at gmail.com>
> *To:* The Canadian Ubuntu Users Community <ubuntu-ca at lists.ubuntu.com>
> *Sent:* Thursday, February 5, 2009 6:28:24 AM
> *Subject:* Re: Canadian Gov RFI on FOSS
>
> It's a good idea, but Darcy also has a point....An off-the-cuff response
> wouldn't help any, it has to be well thought out.
>
> Probably not the greatest place for MS-bashing, for example.
> Not that I'm advocating cozying-up, either....I like my Windows-free
> network :)
>
> On Thu, Feb 5, 2009 at 10:11 AM, Pedro I. Sanchez <psanchez at colcan.ca>wrote:
>
>> Corey Burger wrote:
>> > Seems our Government is asking "Industry" to send it information about
>> > FOSS and has put out an RFI about it:
>> >
>> http://www.merx.com/English/SUPPLIER_Menu.Asp?WCE=Show&TAB=1&PORTAL=MERX&State=7&id=PW-%24%24EE-015-18733&FED_ONLY=0&hcode=Au64x22Vv9pVNE3IKtFp3Q%3d%3d
>> >
>> > I propose we (as ubuntu-ca) write up a response and send it off under
>> > the name of Ubuntu Canada. We can be sure that MS and all the little
>> > lobby groups are going to do so, so getting in there soon is a good
>> > thing.
>> >
>> > Thoughts?
>> >
>> > Corey
>> >
>>
>> This is a good idea. We shouldn't allow the worst to happen ... no
>> answers at all or just answers from the "wrong side of the river."
>>
>> I'd like to help on this. We can at the very least use a Wiki somewhere,
>> Ubuntu's or any other. I offer to setup a wiki in my hosting server in
>> no time just for the purposes of this exercise. I also have a Drupal
>> server already running and doing nothing, we can use it as well. Any
>> other ideas?
>>
>> --
>> Pedro
>>
>>
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