Also, just to add this tidbit...
If any of you are going to SCALE in LA in a few days, you may be
interested in this BoF:
http://www.socallinuxexpo.org/scale6x/conference-info/social-events/birds-of-a-feather/
On Friday, February 8 at 8pm, we will officially launch BytesFree.org,
which will host a information project and grassroots campaign effort
around open formats, copyright reform, and in general, information
rights. The premise of bytesfree.org is that information rights are the
equivalent of human rights, given the prominence of digital media and
documents today. Related issues that we'll discuss include the digital
divide and the right to education.
I hope to see some of you there, and I hope to see some of you
participate on the site. Here's the mailing list:
http://www.bytesfree.org/mailman/listinfo/bytesfree-discuss
For now, we're going to focus on California, but I hope to see this
spread far and wide. We are in the process of filing for 501 c(4)
status, which under US law makes us an official political organization.
Thanks,
John Mark Walker
Excerpts from M. Fioretti's message of Wed Jan 30 10:50:05 -0800 2008:
On Tue, Jan 29, 2008 23:33:51 PM -0500, Danny Piccirillo wrote:
How about we create a guide for people/teams to lobby their local
governments for open formats, free software, and Ubuntu adoption?
I am always interested to link to such guides from the resources
section of Digifreedom.net, please keep me posted even off list.
Just a few notes:
- speaking of free formats, there already is something, ideas at
least, at http://opendocumentfellowship.com
- lobbying for open formats is always safe and 100% OK, if nothing
else because even proprietary sw vendors can adopt them and this
just destroys (if done well) any accusation or political pressure
they may try based on communism, personal attacks, etc... while
removing the only real weapons they have to keep their monopolies
- lobbying for free software... of course it's great, but it must be
done with balance. Use Only FOSS tomorrow or anything similar is
simply not realistic and usually backfires.
- lobbying Ubuntu adoption... You actually mean lobbying a government
to adopt ONE specific sw product instead of all other ones??? If
yes, this wouldn't fly, I'm afraid. How would it be different
(perception-wise, of course) than lobbying for Windows Vista? And
why Ubuntu and not Fedora, OpenSuse, Mandrake, you name it?
Convincing governments to adopt and mandate by law really fair
*practices*, without specifying product names, is a different
thing, of course. Far, far easier to do.
A guide that doesn't _promote_ at all any distro above any other has
many more possibilities to succeed or at least be widely adopted, IMO.
Marco
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