I don't know if this list is still alive/active, but I just came across this post and thought it was interesting to share how the City of Austin has evolved their thinking about a CMS solution: https://medium.com/@mateoclarke/open-source-city-cms-part-1-607a58b32356
On Sun, Dec 20, 2009 at 7:34 PM, Dylan Jay <d...@pretaweb.com> wrote: > > On 21/12/2009, at 12:28 PM, Dylan Jay wrote: > > ... >> Another take home idea from this: if your government is putting out >> tenders that exclude opensource and Plone specifically, creating waves can >> get results. Especially if you can link it to jobs going elsewhere. >> > > My use of the words "creating waves" is a little too strong for what I > meant. The way in which we and others in opensource here have done this is > to talk to those in government about removing requirements in their > procurement processes that specifically excluded opensource solutions. > Government to some extent have been responsive to this. This has taken a > long time and is really just about helping them understand that other > models exist and they can get significant benefits by considering them > fairly along with their existing solutions. Governments respond to the > concept of openness and fairness (and some may respond to the concept of > local jobs but that hasn't been our experience). They respond precisely > because they want to avoid what happened in Austin. > I didn't mean to suggest what those Austin guys did was the right way of > going about it. If the tender has been written it's generally too late to > do anything. > > > > >> On 18/12/2009, at 6:13 PM, Matt Hamilton wrote: >> >> Mark, >>> What is the best way of us handling this? That article makes some harsh >>> comments about Plone. If Plone were some large corporate I would imagine >>> that lawyers would be swinging into action now. >>> >>> Do we want to publish some kind of official statement in response? Or >>> privately contact that newspaper and ask them to retract their comment. It >>> is a quote though so I don't know legal standing. Or do we just keep our >>> head down and not draw attention to it? >>> >>> http://www.statesman.com/news/texas/local-firm-to-start-city >>> -web-site-redesign-129437.html >>> >>> -Matt >>> >>> >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> Evangelism mailing list >>> evangel...@lists.plone.org >>> http://lists.plone.org/mailman/listinfo/evangelism >>> >> >> > > _______________________________________________ > Evangelism mailing list > evangel...@lists.plone.org > http://lists.plone.org/mailman/listinfo/evangelism > -- Nate Aune - na...@jazkarta.com http://www.jazkarta.com +1 (617) 517-4953
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