ubuntu-ca Digest, Vol 47, Issue 5

Fri Feb 6 12:29:59 UTC 2009

Actually, that's near-brilliant....Even if we didn't get the immediate
results, the long-term ones would get a bigger push from this combined with
word-of-mouth...

On Thu, Feb 5, 2009 at 11:20 PM, Ralph Pichie <thevillagegeek at gmail.com>wrote:

> Perhaps we can publish an open letter of some kind in response, one
> that will may be sent to or found by interested parties at the
> provincial or municipal level. The idea being to take advantage of the
> publicity that this bit of federal interest in FOSS offers to raise
> the profile of FOSS in a similar market segment. If it helps achieve
> something positive federally that's great, if not, we still can plant
> the idea elsewhere.
>
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> >   1. Hi all,    I did not realize "I" was being a probl...
> >      (Mr. C clark)
> >   2. Canadian Gov RFI on FOSS (Corey Burger)
> >   3. Re: Canadian Gov RFI on FOSS (Tony Yarusso)
> >   4. Re: Canadian Gov RFI on FOSS (Darcy Casselman)
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> > Message: 1
> > Date: Wed, 4 Feb 2009 11:05:55 -0500
> > From: "Mr. C clark" <c_dive at hotmail.com>
> > Subject: Hi all,    I did not realize "I" was being a probl...
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> > Hi all,
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> > I did not realize "I" was being a problem.
> > I thought I was being baited by Raymond.
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> > I am truly Sorry.
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> > ------------------------------
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> > Message: 2
> > Date: Wed, 4 Feb 2009 21:54:27 -0800
> > From: Corey Burger <corey.burger at gmail.com>
> > Subject: Canadian Gov RFI on FOSS
> > To: The Canadian Ubuntu Users Community <ubuntu-ca at lists.ubuntu.com>
> > Message-ID:
> >        <348bd6da0902042154j70a6f496u1f2419e856cf1677 at mail.gmail.com>
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> >
> > 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
> >
> >
> >
> > ------------------------------
> >
> > Message: 3
> > Date: Thu, 5 Feb 2009 00:04:49 -0600
> > From: Tony Yarusso <tonyyarusso at gmail.com>
> > Subject: Re: Canadian Gov RFI on FOSS
> > To: The Canadian Ubuntu Users Community <ubuntu-ca at lists.ubuntu.com>
> > Message-ID:
> >        <254fef0f0902042204o706a7e21i241afd21debc2d0f at mail.gmail.com>
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> > On Wed, Feb 4, 2009 at 11:54 PM, Corey Burger <corey.burger at gmail.com>
> 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
> >
> > Sounds like a great idea to me.  Perhaps this is a good opportunity for
> Gobby?
> >
> > --
> > Tony Yarusso
> > http://tonyyarusso.com/
> >
> >
> >
> > ------------------------------
> >
> > Message: 4
> > Date: Thu, 5 Feb 2009 06:55:36 -0500
> > From: Darcy Casselman <dscassel at gmail.com>
> > Subject: Re: Canadian Gov RFI on FOSS
> > To: The Canadian Ubuntu Users Community <ubuntu-ca at lists.ubuntu.com>
> > Message-ID:
> >        <7b1cf2a50902050355s7586eab5t5a65c7ff3c58ccd2 at mail.gmail.com>
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> > I think it's a good idea, but man, talk about setting up for failure.
> >
> > As we've seen recently on this list, it's kind of hard to sell people
> > on free software if all they care about is price.
> >
> > Darcy.
> >
> > On Thu, Feb 5, 2009 at 12:54 AM, Corey Burger <corey.burger at gmail.com>
> 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
> >>
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