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Election 2006 (and beyond): Digital Copyright Canada
From: Russell McOrmond <russell_-at-_flora.ca>
To: CANadian OPENsource Education and Research <discuss_-at-_canopener.ca>
Date: Sat, 10 May 2003 14:53:50 -0400 (EDT)
In case anyone missed this from earlier this month ;-)
http://www.itbusiness.ca/index.asp?theaction=61&sid=52134
CUPE turns to open source tools for portal revamp
5/1/2003 5:00:00 PM - Labour union drops Oracle, Microsoft products
after ongoing problems
by Monika Rola
The Canadian Union of Public Employees launched their new Web site
Thursday, and in the true spirit of May Day it was a thoroughly
collaborative effort.
Canada's largest union, CUPE represents over half a million workers in
the health care, education, municipalities, libraries, universities,
social services, public utilities, transportation, emergency services
and airline industries throughout the country. On May 1st, the
international day celebrating worker solidarity, the union launched
version three of its site using a number of open source tools.
Developed in collaboration with OpenConcept Consulting, the site's
server is based on Red Hat 8, with a fairly standard LAMP environment.
OpenConcept president Mike Gifford said the developers made a point of
basing it on common open source platforms. The site was built in such
a way as to be easy to use and test on a number of different
platforms.
...read full article...
Full disclosure: I am a member of OpenConcept Consulting, and work to try
to get organizations from all sectors (private, public, volunteer, civil
society, individual citizens, etc) to work together to both protect
creative/communications rights in software, to share ICT knowledge, and to
gain all the other benefits of Free/Libre Software.
While non-Free/libre software is dominated by the private sector,
Free/Libre software can include the full involvement from all sectors.
This full involvement can take on increasing levels such as:
1. Procurement (purchasing/hiring/using software)
2. Participation (creating/improving/sharing software and software
knowledge)
3. Public Policy (recognition of ties between Free/Libre software and
other organizational or government policy)
4. Protection of Rights (creative rights in software and non-software,
communications rights of citizens, accountability of governance
software, etc)
(I'll be writing an article soon to detail this progression)
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Russell McOrmond, Internet Consultant: <http://www.flora.ca/>
Any 'hardware assist' for communications, whether it be eye-glasses,
VCR's, or personal computers, must be under the control of the citizen
and not a third party. -- http://www.flora.ca/russell/
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