[Linux-aus] Linux Australia values statement

[Russell Coker]

On Wed, 6 Apr 2011, Mary Gardiner <mary at puzzling.org> wrote:
> > If LA is to be focused on Australia then I think that a stronger
> > statement  about free formats for documentation from the public sector
> > would be good. There is a heap of data on the abs.gov.au site that is in
> > non-free formats which decreases it's usefulness to people who don't use
> > MS-Windows as well as to people who use MS-Windows in 10 years time.
> 
> There's probably a tradeoff somewhere between "values" and "campaigns",
> where campaigns are specific actions/requests/causes that we undertake
> because of our values. I know the draft Values crosses into specific
> actions/stances on particular issues already a bit, but I wonder if this
> isn't more of a campaign/call kind of thing.

In that case perhaps we should have a separate statement that covers things 
like public sector data and skip it entirely from the values statement.

Maybe a more general statement about open data formats that doesn't mention 
public sector data would be more in scope for the values statement.

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