Folks not local to NYC are invited to send testimony in writing. - Steve
From: Benjamin Kallos <kal...@gmail.com> Date: Mon, Feb 8, 2016 at 5:44 PM Subject: Testify in Support of Civic Commons Legislation in NYC To: Civic Commons Discussion <disc...@civiccommons.org> You are cordially invited to provide expert testimony at a hearing of the Committee on Contracts at City Hall on *Tuesday, February 23, 2016 at 10:00AM* on the Free and Open Source Software Act and Civic Commons. *Int. 366*, *Free and Open Source Software Act (FOSSA)* <http://benkallos.com/legislation/introduction-366-2014-free-and-open-source-software-act>, would minimize city contracts for proprietary software in favor of free and open source software (FOSS) that can be shared between government agencies and bodies. Proprietary programs require the city and other municipalities, including the state, to pay private vendors over and over again for the same code while FOSS provides the city with power over the code and the freedom to study, modify, upgrade, improve, customize, maintain and redistribute within agencies and to other cities or states. Free software means code that is free from proprietary constraints, not free of charge. *Int. 365*, The *Civic Commons Act* <http://benkallos.com/legislation/introduction-365-2014-civic-commons-act>, would encourage the collaborative software purchasing of free and open source software among agencies, cities and states to pool resources, avoid duplicated effort, create portable expertise, grow jobs, and reduce costs. A Civic Commons FOSS portal would be created to facilitate collaborative software purchasing and host the collaborative FOSS source code as well as FOSS projects identified as useful for government use. Civic Commons is currently a project of Code for America with more information available at wiki.CivicCommons.org <http://wiki.civiccommons.org/>. Please participate by joining us in person at *City Hall* on *Tuesday, February 23, 2016 at 10:00AM* to provide two-minutes of oral testimony along with twenty (20) double-sided copies of your written testimony of any length followed by question and answer. Please let us know if you will be joining us by electronic mail to *pol...@benkallos.com* or calling Paul Westrick my Legislative Director at *212-860-1950 <212-860-1950>*. Sincerely, Ben Kallos *Council Member* *City Council District 5* 244 East 93rd Street New York, NY 10128 bkal...@benkallos.com Phone: 212-860-1950 Web: BenKallos.com Twitter: @BenKallos Facebook: /BenKallos -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Civic Commons Discussion" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to discuss+unsubscr...@civiccommons.org.
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