[Linux-aus] Should Linux Australia change its name?

Sarah Stokely sarah at foxforcefive.com
Sun Apr 22 21:12:32 EST 2012


Hi all,
The Open Technology Foundation launched last year.
http://opentechnologyfoundation.org/

Cheers,
Sarah

On Sun, Apr 22, 2012 at 7:40 PM, Chris Neugebauer <chrisjrn at gmail.com>wrote:

> On Sun, Apr 22, 2012 at 19:12, Hamish Taylor <bubbiting at gmail.com> wrote:
> > To be encompassing of all aspects of the community which LA currently
> > represents, I suggest: Open Technologies Association of Australia, or
> > something along those lines (Australian Open Technologies Association,
> > etc). This avoids the contentions between the Free (libre) software
> > movement and the Open Source software movement, avoids the pitfalls
> > with something with 'Free' in its name, and caters for more than just
> > software developers, by including open hardware, 3D printing, etc.
>
> This sounds like a good option.  "Open Technology Australia" or "Open
> Technologies Australia" would get my vote.
>
> --Chris
>
>
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