Re: [us-marketing] White House endorses open source - be nice if they do the same of LibreOffice.

On 02/26/2011 11:51 AM, Jon Hamkins wrote:
> On 02/18/2011 06:11 AM, webmaster for Kracked Press Productions wrote:
>
> > So does anyone know a way to get the White House, or the proper people
> > in the US government, to look at LibreOffice's efforts in the open
> > source community and to review the software package?
>
> A couple of years ago I started putting together a lengthy seminar for 
> my employer, NASA/JPL, to explain why ODF and OOo (this was pre-LibO) 
> were good things to support throughout the laboratory.  I never 
> finished it, but I was thinking of revamping this for LibO.  If anyone 
> wants to help contribute, let me know.
>
> ...  I am absolutely convinced that the U.S. government could save 
> quite a bit of money, without sacrificing quality, by moving to LibO.
John,

I'd like to help in this.  Two things:

- The federal branch is one substantial target, but there are a lot of 
others in the same procurement space [e.g. 1,2].  I think we should, at 
least, scope whether to adopt the collateral you worked on to include 
interests & requirements for state, province, etc.

1)http://www.cio.ca.gov/Government/IT_Policy/pdf/IT_Policy_Letter_10-01_Open_Source_Software.pdf
2) http://www.sfcoit.org/index.aspx?page=616

Let me know how you'd like to proceed...

Best,
-Craig

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