{"id":41,"date":"2004-02-14T10:29:43","date_gmt":"2004-02-14T15:29:43","guid":{"rendered":"\/?p=41"},"modified":"2004-02-14T10:29:43","modified_gmt":"2004-02-14T15:29:43","slug":"open-source-policy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/archives\/2004\/02\/14\/open-source-policy","title":{"rendered":"Open source policy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Time and again, the question of a general HOWTO, a proper roadmap, and so on, with regards to how open source policy should take off. Be it in <a href=\"http:\/\/ask.slashdot.org\/article.pl?sid=04\/02\/12\/2225217&#038;mode=thread&#038;tid=117&#038;tid=187&#038;tid=99\">corporates<\/a>, the governments of the world want it too. How would you migrate? How would you start from scratch? We need this kind of information if we&#8217;re going to sell FLOSS to regular human beings.<\/p>\n<p>Some sources of information I was pointed to: <a href=\"http:\/\/home.bellanet.org\/\">Bellanet<\/a>, Sun&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.informit.com\/isapi\/product_id~%7BAC5FB923-5EDD-495D-BC1F-300318D464AE%7D\/content\/index.asp\">Desktop Architecture Selection Guide<\/a>, the <a href=\"http:\/\/europa.eu.int\/ISPO\/ida\/jsps\/index.jsp?fuseAction=home\">European IDA<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.winnetmag.com\/Article\/ArticleID\/41756\/Windows_41756.html\">A Legacy Windows wrap-up<\/a> (at least on how to move to another version of that OS, but applicable information). With government funds, <a href=\"http:\/\/community.asiaosc.org\/~iwsmith\/policy\/\">Imran&#8217;s policy archive<\/a> is rather handy, albeit could use a few updates.<\/p>\n<div class=\"sharedaddy sd-sharing-enabled\"><div class=\"robots-nocontent sd-block sd-social sd-social-icon-text sd-sharing\"><h3 class=\"sd-title\">Share this:<\/h3><div class=\"sd-content\"><ul><li class=\"share-email\"><a rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" data-shared=\"\" class=\"share-email sd-button share-icon\" href=\"mailto:?subject=%5BShared%20Post%5D%20Open%20source%20policy&body=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.bytebot.net%2Fblog%2Farchives%2F2004%2F02%2F14%2Fopen-source-policy&share=email\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Click to email a link to a friend\" data-email-share-error-title=\"Do you have email set up?\" data-email-share-error-text=\"If you&#039;re having problems sharing via email, you might not have email set up for your browser. 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More interesting training notes to come out, under a nice open license, similar to my OOo training notes. Fedora Core 2, Gnome 2.6, OOo 1.1.1 - are my main concerns. And of course, getting the images ready for roll-out. Thoughts on a backup system, like\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;General&quot;","img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":451,"url":"http:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/archives\/2006\/11\/24\/a-disclosure-policy","url_meta":{"origin":41,"position":1},"title":"A Disclosure Policy","date":"24\/11\/2006","format":false,"excerpt":"So in the limelight of the con that PayPerPost was set out to be, the idea to bring balance to the force was to allow opt-in Disclosure Policies. 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There's also going to be a national OSS policy (make that\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;General&quot;","img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":741,"url":"http:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/archives\/2008\/03\/09\/surprise-results-at-the-malaysian-general-elections","url_meta":{"origin":41,"position":4},"title":"Surprise results at the Malaysian General Elections","date":"9\/3\/2008","format":false,"excerpt":"First off, I must apologise to my regular blog readers for all the recent politically motivated content. Its mostly over; well at least the regular pace it was at the last couple of weeks. Malaysia made history on March 8 2008, during her 12th General Elections. The Barisan Nasional was\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;General&quot;","img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":35,"url":"http:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/archives\/2004\/02\/10\/fossap-day-2","url_meta":{"origin":41,"position":5},"title":"FOSSAP Day 2","date":"10\/2\/2004","format":false,"excerpt":"Day 2 got more technical, I'd say; fun for me, but not most of the others I reckon. They're policy makers from the UN and respective governments! FOSS in Education was interesting, touching on the Creative Commons license, MIT's Open Courseware, and things like that. 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