Re: [Fsfe-uk] A new workgroup suggestion

[Tom Chance]

Hello again,

Two weeks seems sufficient for people to think about this, or at least to give 
a preliminary response, so given that nobody has responded, I'm assuming that 
nobody is interested. I admit I'm a little disappointed, because it seems to 
me like a very obvious opportunity to get a lot of people actually *doing* 
something to promote and protect Free Software, rather than just talking on 
mailing lists and news sites.

I'm going to continue working on this in my Uni for now, and I will keep this 
list up to date on my progress, in case anybody decides they want to link up.

Regards,

Tom

On Friday 06 Feb 2004 20:48, Tom Chance wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I'd like to suggest a new workgroup, to focus on the issue of free/open
> standards, particularly in digital media. The immediate goals of the
> workgroup would be to begin lobbying individual organisations to adopt
> clear and sufficient policy on the use of digital media, whilst long term
> goals could include raising awareness of free/open standards in various
> corporate, non-profit and governmental circles.
>
> It in a sense overlaps with the education and government workgroups, but it
> would provide the AFFS several key opportunities:
>
> 1) To work in unison with the UKCDR, FFII-UK and other groups on a shared
> concern, whilst focussing on something very specific
> 2) To promote an achievably solution to a pressing problem
> 3) To run something which every geek on the planet can help out with,
> simply by talking to any organisations they are part of
>
> I've already worked through my students' union to pass good policy on the
> use of digital media, and apparently the Uni of London Union are now
> looking at that policy. I think that it's critical that groups like the
> AFFS not only discuss issues, but promote clear solutions and campaign for
> their adoption, and my experience in my union suggests that this is a
> perfect candidate.
>
> I'd like to use the opportunity of the coming Linux Expo to go around and
> talk to other exhibitors and visitors about this, so if others like the
> idea and would like to work on it, it'd be good to get this workgroup up
> and running soon. OTOH if nobody likes the idea, I'll go back to my
> plotting.
>
> Tom
>
> p.s. back when I started working on the idea, and gave it a fancy name, I
> put together info on it, including my union documents, here:
> http://www.tomchance.org.uk/research/freesoftware/oip
>
>
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