New Ambassador and Regional Law to support FLOSS

[Mario Torre]

Hello everyone!

I'm writing to the list to introduce myself as well as to talk about an
important opportunity for the FLOSS ecosystem in general (and to some
degree to Fedora itself).

I've asked to join the Fedora Ambassador group in the hope to be
helpful, and there is not much else I can say other than that I'm
really, really happy to be part of the family.

In my daily life I work on Free Software, both as a developer and doing
consulting services for small to medium sizes companies in the area
where I live (Salerno, Italy), just as I think many of you do too in
their daily jobs.

On 15 June (this Friday already!), I have to give a presentation of a
new Regional Law that pushes the use of FLOSS/Open Standards in the
Public Administration. This is the work of years and many finally
arriving to an end and I'm very proud of that too.

I would like to go to the talk not "only" as a member of the local LUG
and part of the organizations behind this Law, but also as an official
Fedora Ambassador, if you think it is the case.

I'll write down a summary of this meeting and the text of the Law itself
(but I'm not a lawyer, so the English translation may not be accurate
and will be for your interest only).

Any questions welcomed!

Mario
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[Thomas Chung]

On 6/12/07, Mario Torre <neugens(a)limasoftware.net&gt; wrote:
>  Hello everyone!
>
>  I'm writing to the list to introduce myself as well as to talk about an
>  important opportunity for the FLOSS ecosystem in general (and to some
>  degree to Fedora itself).
>
>  I've asked to join the Fedora Ambassador group in the hope to be
>  helpful, and there is not much else I can say other than that I'm
>  really, really happy to be part of the family.
>
>  In my daily life I work on Free Software, both as a developer and doing
>  consulting services for small to medium sizes companies in the area
>  where I live (Salerno, Italy), just as I think many of you do too in
>  their daily jobs.
>
>  On 15 June (this Friday already!), I have to give a presentation of a
>  new Regional Law that pushes the use of FLOSS/Open Standards in the
>  Public Administration. This is the work of years and many finally
>  arriving to an end and I'm very proud of that too.
>
>  I would like to go to the talk not "only" as a member of the local LUG
>  and part of the organizations behind this Law, but also as an official
>  Fedora Ambassador, if you think it is the case.
>
>  I'll write down a summary of this meeting and the text of the Law itself
>  (but I'm not a lawyer, so the English translation may not be accurate
>  and will be for your interest only).
>
>  Any questions welcomed!
>
>  Mario 
Thank you Mario. I'll make sure to submit your Event Report to FWN.
Regards,
-- 
Thomas Chung
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/ThomasChung

[Mario Torre]

Il giorno mar, 12/06/2007 alle 20.27 -0700, Thomas Chung ha scritto:

>  Thank you Mario. I'll make sure to submit your Event Report to
> FWN.
>  Regards, 
Hey, thank you!

Here are some details (more to come, sorry I'm very busy in preparing
this).

The event is organized with NaLug (www.nalug.net) and many other
organizations that adhere to "Coordinamento Free Software
Campania" (www.freesc.eu).

We will have some technical talk in the morning, while in the afternoon
the discussion will be about the Regional Law, with political and civil
life representatives (read here Universities), as well as LUGs and
various local Free Software associations that are trying to push the use
of FLOSS in the Public Administration.

My track is scheduled in the morning and will be called "Get Used to
Thinking For Yourself", a paper in which I try to stimulate my listeners
to understand the alternatives in software and why they are so
important, as well as the philosophy of the Free Software (seen as
sharing and freedom, but that does not prevent to make money... you all
know what I'm talking about :) presenting various analogies with other
aspects of our life, like the global pollution as well as other social
themes like unemployment, etc.. and what if 30 years ago we had done
different choices. In other words, how a monopoly can change a whole
social structure (this has happened in Italy, for example, with FIAT,
when they had public money up to a point that they had not a company
politics at all, and that lead the proliferation of private transport
and infrastructure and the absence of public transport - no trailroads
etc..).

Other tracks are about OpenOffice, Secure Wireless, Software Emulation
(run Windows application on Linux), and overview of the new GPLv3 and
more.

As I said, on the afternoon there will be the discussion will be about
the Regional Law.

The complete program is here: http://www.nalug.net/gnu-linux-fest-2007/

Thanks,
Mario
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