Hi all,<br>The Open Technology Foundation launched last year.<br><a href="http://opentechnologyfoundation.org/">http://opentechnologyfoundation.org/</a><br><br>Cheers,<br>Sarah<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sun, Apr 22, 2012 at 7:40 PM, Chris Neugebauer <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:chrisjrn@gmail.com">chrisjrn@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div class="im">On Sun, Apr 22, 2012 at 19:12, Hamish Taylor <<a href="mailto:bubbiting@gmail.com">bubbiting@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
> To be encompassing of all aspects of the community which LA currently<br>
> represents, I suggest: Open Technologies Association of Australia, or<br>
> something along those lines (Australian Open Technologies Association,<br>
> etc). This avoids the contentions between the Free (libre) software<br>
> movement and the Open Source software movement, avoids the pitfalls<br>
> with something with 'Free' in its name, and caters for more than just<br>
> software developers, by including open hardware, 3D printing, etc.<br>
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</div>This sounds like a good option. "Open Technology Australia" or "Open<br>
Technologies Australia" would get my vote.<br>
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