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On 29/04/12 05:20, Jon "maddog" Hall wrote:
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cite="mid:1335640840.2927.24.camel@smaug.hsd1.nh.comcast.net"
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<pre wrap="">I would like to suggest an approach of having a parent organization that
is "Free and Open Culture of Australia" or something as encompassing of
your value statement as you can get. This organization would lend its
resources and "umbrella" to as many organizations as it feels fits that
value statement. This has been suggested before.</pre>
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I suggest<br>
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"Free Open Standards Community ANZ"<br>
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I believe this is an encompassing statement of our objectives:-<br>
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Free to use - May have patents appropriately held<br>
should have appropriate licence<br>
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Free to enhance<br>
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"Open Standards" are a core necessity enabling <br>
Linux<br>
Pycon<br>
Drupal <br>
Word Camp ...etc to florish<br>
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"Community" - the major missing concept from politics today<br>
opposie to global rationalisation<br>
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I believe our Advocacy should be to focussed on <br>
achieving true "unencumbered open standards "<br>
for all branches of community life,<br>
- Health records<br>
- Aussie hamburgers, cakes<br>
- Car tinkerers<br>
- Video Codec<br>
- Government to people user interface<br>
- Document storage etc<br>
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<pre><font style="font-size: 13pt" size="3">Ron Skeoch</font>
<font color="#800000">MD, Muli Management P/L.</font>
<font color="#0000ff"><font size="2">Project Risk, Accounts & Process Management. </font></font>
<font color="#800000"><font size="2">www.muli.com.au</font></font>
Phone +612 (02) 9487 3241
Fax +612 (02) 9487 3583
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