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Election 2006 (and beyond): Digital Copyright Canada
From: Russell McOrmond <russell_-at-_flora.ca>
To: Free/Libre and Open Source Software in Community Networking <comnet-www_-at-_flora.org>
Date: Sun, 19 Oct 2003 16:46:01 -0400 (EDT)
Just forwarding this message (obscuring email addresses and cleaning up
the URL's so they will work from the web-archive for this list.
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Russell McOrmond, Internet Consultant: <http://www.flora.ca/>
Governance software that controls ICT, automates government policy, or
electronically counts votes, shouldn't be bought any more than
politicians should be bought. -- http://www.flora.ca/russell/
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Date: Sun, 19 Oct 2003 09:38:29 -0700 (PDT)
From: Barbara E. Irwin <beirwin _AT_ shaw.ca>
To: russell _-aT-_ flora.ca
Subject: Linux Brochure Project (LBP)
Good Morning,
I am one of the contributors to the Loads of Linux Links project
( http://loll.sourceforge.net/linux/links/index.html ) and have the FLORA
under the Advocacy section. I am in the process of contacting all advocacy
and LUGs about a new project we have been working on which has great
advocacy and publicity potential for Linux and Open Source. I hope you will
consider putting some information about the Linux Brochure Project, which is
hosted on SourceForge, on the FLORA site. Information is provided below.
This project was developed because the Victoria Linux User Group (VLUG)
wanted to produce their brochure using open source tools rather than
proprietary ones. We registered it at SourceForge so that any Linux LUG and
other advocacy groups could use the software to produce their own brochure.
This project has been written up by LWN ( http://lwn.net/Articles/51938/ ).
See below for project details.
Barbara Irwin
Publicity Coordinator, VLUG
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The Linux Brochure Project (LBP) is GPLed data and software which is used to
document key Linux information in a standard-size brochure (two sides of a
single letter-sized or A4 sheet of paper that is Z-folded into the six
mini-pages of the brochure).
Four key features of this project make it an excellent advocacy and
publicity tool for LUGS and Linux organizations: 1) the project data and
software are GPLed; 2) all software tools used to build the LBP brochures
are open source; 3) the brochure can be customized to fit individual
requirements of LUGs and other Linux organizations; and 4) the software
produces an attractive brochure.
Currently there are two versions of the brochure -- a "Linus" version, which
features famous quotes from Linus and a VLUG version, which has been adopted
as the Victoria Linux Users Group official brochure. We encourage
contributions of customized versions of the LBP brochure so ultimately there
will be a suite of brochures from around the world. Looking forward to
receiving your version! :-)
The first stable version, 1.0.0, was released on October 5, 2003. Version
1.1.0 was released on October 11, 2003 to provide the option of printing the
brochure on A4 size paper. This new feature will allow the wider global
Linux community full access to this project as well.
For further details see:
LBP Home Page: http://lbproject.sourceforge.net/
Version 1.1.0 Announcement:
http://lbproject.sourceforge.net/announce_1.1.0.html
Version 1.0.0 Announcement:
http://lbproject.sourceforge.net/announce_1.0.0.html
Barbara
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Barbara Irwin
beirwin -_at_- shaw.ca
Victoria, B.C. Canada
The Roman Rule: The one who says it cannot be done
should never interrupt the one who is doing it.
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