On 28 Jul 2002, Ian Anderson wrote:
> Advocacy is another issue. I think Canopener.ca is better equipped to
> handle that, they have a broader mandate (all open source software) and
> that is their primary objective. Also if CLUE stays out of advocacy it
> has a better chance at getting charitable status which will really help
> with fund raising.
This is important to decide. There are a number of projects underway to
deal with different parts of Advocacy, and I suspect having CLUE not
duplicate these efforts would be useful.
CanOpenER.ca - Open Source Education and Research, with the
[EMAIL PROTECTED] being where GOSLINGS discussions are happening
currently.
digital-copyright.ca - advocacy work for Open Source as it relates to
Intellectual Property (Primarily just the DMCA forum)
http://www.memeshadow.net/wiki131/index.php/Free%20Software%20In%20Government
A project associated with the "New Politics Initiative" to bring Free
Software to Government. This is getting pretty specific as this
focuses on left-wing advocates.
In the future, GOSLINGS will also have a website (no date, so don't ask)
that will most likely be hosted by the GoC itself. This will be a very
key site for advocacy to the Canadian government.
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