On Sun, Apr 13, 2008 at 8:04 PM, Clay Moultrie <<a href="mailto:clay.osi@gmail.com">clay.osi@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"> <div bgcolor="#ffffff" text="#000000"> Hey guys!<br> <br>     So I've been thinking, what would it really take to get government, local or state to embrace open source? Obviously the benefits are huge for government to embrace open source (The <a href="http://www.cnet.com/8301-13505_1-9893173-16.html" target="_blank">US Navy</a> and <a href="http://news.zdnet.co.uk/software/0,1000000121,39285468,00.htm" target="_blank">EU</a> are realizing this). Does anyone have any connections to the Utah Capitol to have a Senator or Representative sponsor a bill to adopt the technology? (if i understand correctly if a rep. or senator would sponsor then they could have research teams do research on the amount of money saved. research that is sure to prove our point). I know this is a huge goal, but its gotta start somewhere. If anyone has any thoughts on this let me know or reply back to me with your email and we can start a smaller group discussion on this. Thanks!<br> <br> Clay Moultrie<br> </div> </blockquote></div><br><br>     This link shows something that you might be interested in:  <a href="http://dts.utah.gov/techresearch/techreports/index.html">http://dts.utah.gov/techresearch/techreports/index.html</a><br> <br>   JOEL<br>