On Mon, Jul 6, 2009 at 00:58, Pia Waugh<greebo@pipka.org> wrote:
Remember, politicians and public servants are people too. If you engage in a positive, constructive and informative way, you can seed an interest which may bear the fruit of action, but only if continually nourished and not trampled on. All advocates walk a fine line, and it is even more important when dealing with the government to be diplomatic in your advocacy.
I am now living in Australia's capital city and will be chatting to my local FOSS user groups about how we can take Software Freedom Day even bigger and better this year, engaging with politicians and government agencies. If any of you are seeing similar interest in "open government" or "government 2.0" in your countries, I'd suggest the time is right to take Software Freedom to the government :)
Hi there, We've run SFD for the last 4 years at our Dept. of Science and Tech, (South Africa) I must say that since our initial event, interest in SFD has increased alot in the Public Sector, I would really encourage all people involved in or with Government to promote SFD :) It's assisted us a great deal with getting Gov. Departments to experiment and embrace Open Source. Karl -- ---------------------------------------------------------------- | Karl Fischer | www : http://floss.pro | jid: kmf@floss.pro ----------------------------------------------------------------