<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sat, Aug 11, 2012 at 12:26 PM, Brent Wallis <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:brent.wallis@gmail.com" target="_blank">brent.wallis@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
Dear LA Council,<div><br></div><div>May we place a page on the Linux Australia Website specifically designed to educate and debate the issues around UEFI Secure Boot?</div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>No permission needed to add a page to the wiki :) Just hit up <a href="http://wiki.linux.org.au/">http://wiki.linux.org.au/</a>, log in (link is on the top-right, same username/password as for MemberDB - you can change it at <a href="https://www.linux.org.au/membership/">https://www.linux.org.au/membership/</a> if you've forgotten it).</div>
<div><br></div><div>I think the main website requires extra permissions to be able to edit pages, but the wiki is probably a better place to put this content while it's being worked on.</div><div><br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
<div>I am happy to do the content work (with help from scribes like KR) and submit anything for approval before it is posted.</div>
<div><br></div><div>My original list post on the matter is below.</div><div><br></div><div>After much research, have come to the conclusion that my original idea of a press statement would be ineffective at this point in time.</div>
<div><br></div><div>Am a little surprised, comment on this has dried up!</div><div>But it ain't gonna go away and we need to deal with it!</div><div><br></div><div>Rgds</div><div>BW</div><div><br></div><div><snip></div>
<div><div style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-size:13.333333969116211px;font-family:arial,sans-serif">Colleagues!</div><div style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-size:13.333333969116211px;font-family:arial,sans-serif">
A press release at this stage would not bode well.</div><div style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-size:13.333333969116211px;font-family:arial,sans-serif">This whole issue is a work in progress, like grabbing at soap bubbles.</div>
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But we can not leave things be.</div><div style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-size:13.333333969116211px;font-family:arial,sans-serif"><br></div><div style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-size:13.333333969116211px;font-family:arial,sans-serif">
I think LA Australia can service the community by helping with education on the matter.</div><div style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-size:13.333333969116211px;font-family:arial,sans-serif">Once education (and hopefully understanding) can be established, press releases can/should follow.</div>
<div style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-size:13.333333969116211px;font-family:arial,sans-serif"><br></div><div style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-size:13.333333969116211px;font-family:arial,sans-serif">
LA Council:</div><div style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-size:13.333333969116211px;font-family:arial,sans-serif">My thinking has changed.</div><div style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-size:13.333333969116211px;font-family:arial,sans-serif">
A press release in any form at this point would fall on deaf ears, or worse, make us look foolish given the fluid nature of the issue.</div><div style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-size:13.333333969116211px;font-family:arial,sans-serif">
Instead:</div><div style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-size:13.333333969116211px;font-family:arial,sans-serif"><br></div><div style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-size:13.333333969116211px;font-family:arial,sans-serif">
Could we please establish a page via the LA website with these specific goals?</div><div style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-size:13.333333969116211px;font-family:arial,sans-serif"><br></div>
<div style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-size:13.333333969116211px;font-family:arial,sans-serif">- A non emotive (as un bias as possible) pre-amble on the whole UEFI / UEFI secure boot issue with simple descriptions(that may change over time) of the UEFI implementation process.</div>
<div style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-size:13.333333969116211px;font-family:arial,sans-serif">- Links to blogs/releases/info on UEFI for as many distros as possible (sample being Fedora/RH, Suse, Debian, Mint ,... ..<add your preference here>)</div>
<div style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-size:13.333333969116211px;font-family:arial,sans-serif">- A link to the FSF releases on the matter.</div><div style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-size:13.333333969116211px;font-family:arial,sans-serif">
- Links to any releases/blogs/info from manufacturers.</div><div style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-size:13.333333969116211px;font-family:arial,sans-serif">- Links to any blogs from individuals that do kernel work and have to deal with this.</div>
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In short, a nexus for information on UEFI and how it will affect Linux in general.</div><div style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-size:13.333333969116211px;font-family:arial,sans-serif">Once established....then press releases would follow, and, would be far more likely to be noticed.</div>
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Comment welcome.</div><div></snip></div><div><br></div></div>
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