Dear all
I have been reviewing the Certified Open principles of operation.
Please find attached my edits. I tried to clarify language in some
places and also corrected some formatting and typographical errors.
There are some below.
I'm not entirely happy with the wording of section 6. I think we can
improve it to make it sound more attractive.
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6.Overview – for Consultancy Providers
Consultancy service providers have a particular additional benefit from
Certified Open. Certified Open provides an independent base for audit
and strategic ICT advice to user organisations while also providing all
of the benefits listed above. For the large suppliers it again provides
evidence of the independence of their consultancy and support for the
larger community. For the SME ICT supplier it provides a level playing
field from which to operate, benefiting from greater visibility and
recognition of unique strengths, skills and differentiators. In all
cases it enables the company to position itself effectively in terms of:-
The openness of its services (and potentially its own products and
those of selected partners).
The independence of its advice.
The professionalism of its staff.
The basis of effective hiring decisions.
Its strength as a potential long term partner.
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In section 9 (Skills) it says "Access to the Certified Open
SkillsTracker is secure and is made via the log-on screen – it is
accessed directly from the Open Source Academy site. There is a new user
log-in facility for people to set up their record." Should this be
changed to the Certified Open website?
Under section 10 (Pricing) I didn't understand this paragraph:
"These are annual amounts except * which is annual unless there is a
major new release in that time, at which point 50% fee is repayable.
Minor releases may be notified for free if they do not impact any answer."
Regards
Shane
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Hi all,
I assume all of you saw
http://ec.europa.eu/idabc/servlets/Doc?id=29101
and the initiative that Nicolas Pettiaux set up at
http://www.openstandards.eu
The question is: What is the best course of action right now?
I feel the public signature approach is somewhat inflationary right now
and I am not sure as to its effectiveness. It probably also does not
really take down the Gartner study.
So how do we do this effectively?
Comments appreciated.
Regards,
Georg
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Dear all
I have just received an overview of the Free Software situation in
Poland from a lawyer called Krzysztof Siewicz. He included some notes
on open standards that may (or may not) be useful in the Certified Open
context. Please find them below.
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Open standards
The Polish government, partly because of the European Interoperability
Framework, partly because of the local lobbying, has recently noticed
the notion of open standards. Although there is no clear legal
definition of open standards in Polish law and no enforceable obligation
to use them in egovernment, there is hope that things may change for the
better.
Polish authorities are currently debating the draft Polish
Interoperability Framework, and recently they adopted "Polish
Informatization Plan" that vaguely referred to open standards but as far
as I recall did not mention software freedoms or even the importance to
access source codes. However, there was a reference to "open systems
architecture" that should be supported in designing egovernment software.
A "Coalition for Open Standards" (KROS) has been set up
(http://standardy.org) by ISOC-PL, Novell, and various other actors. A
lawyer involved in this initiative is Piotr Waglowski, who is also an
active member of ISOC-PL and runs a web site devoted to law and the
Internet (similar to groklaw) at: http://prawo.vagla.pl.
On Tue, 10 Jul 2007 10:51:39 +0100
"Graham Taylor" <graham(a)openforumeurope.org> wrote:
gt> Georg, meant to ask what else came out of the meeting?
Not too many concrete conclusions.
There was a general understanding that we should focus on the impact of
Open Standards on "development" and "mainstreaming capacity building"
for our activities. So these could be additional themes for submissions
by the DCOS, which we'll be working on.
Deadline for such submissions is 31 July 2007.
Independent of the official IGF, but related: TACD is planning a
workshop on Open Standards for the consumer groups in London around
17-18 September. Sun is planning a workshop on Open Standards the day
before the IGF in Brazil.
Also people agreed that the IGF might be a good opportunity to present
and promote Certified Open -- so I should be able to do something about
that, if we can manage to get our act together in time. My main issue at
the moment is travel funding to get to Rio, so I'm working on that.
Regards,
Georg
P.S. Off-the-record-note: Susy Struble was talking quite a bit on how
the MS-OOXML fight was over, and how Microsoft had won and that they'll
also succeed with all the other formats and such.
Only after some counterweight by myself [including some (non targeted)
remarks on how I knew that certain companies had deals with Microsoft to
not go against MS-OOXML, and how that was not helpful and it would be
better if such companies would speak out against MS-OOXML to undo the
"IBM vs MS" spin] did she become less negative in her statements.
Overall atmosphere was very friendly, but hearing Sun tell the DCOS that
it was not worth going up against MS-OOXML was odd, indeed.
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Hi all,
quick note: today we had Internet Governance Forum (IGF) Dynamic
Coalition on Open Standards (DCOS) in Geneva. Benoit Mueller of BSA had
invited himself, which slowed the meeting down somewhat, but after he
left I took the chance to introduce Certified Open to the people present
with a note on non-publicity at this point.
Present were
- Susy Struble, Sun
- Robin Gross, IP Justice
- Thirukumaran Balasubramaniam, KEI
- Daniel Dardallier, W3C
- Rishab Ghosh, UNU-MERIT
- Vera Franz, OSI
and the feedback was quite positive, in particular that of Susy.
I promised to send her the P+S and she also signalled interest in the
MOU to get an internal try at the system.
So all seems good and OSI should be somewhat pre-informed and hopefully
more receptive when you approach them.
Regards,
Georg
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Dear all
I unearthed the problem with Bob not receiving email for the Certified
Open board mailing list. It would appear that Bob was not actually
subscribed to the list. That has now been corrected.
Bob, would you like me to forward you the emails that have been sent to
the board mailing list? That would be 54 emails for your records.
Shane
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This document also briefly outlines the usage of the terms Open Source
and Libre Software:
http://fsfeurope.org/documents/freesoftware.en.html
There is also another useful document here called the "Free Software
Essentials Reference Sheet":
http://fsfeurope.org/projects/wipo/fser.en.html
Regards
Shane
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FTF Coordinator
Free Software Foundation Europe
Office: +41435000366 ext 408 / Mobile: +41792633406
coughlan(a)fsfeurope.org
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Here is the latest version of the document, there are still some
potential formatting issues.
Regards
Shane
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Shane Coughlan
FTF Coordinator
Free Software Foundation Europe
Office: +41435000366 ext 408 / Mobile: +41792633406
coughlan(a)fsfeurope.org
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Dear board
Perhaps it would be useful to have a teleconference sometime in the
coming week or two so that we are all fully up to date. Personally I've
been away for two weeks, and I would find it useful to have an informal
briefing to get back up to speed.
Regards
Shane
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Shane Coughlan
FTF Coordinator
Free Software Foundation Europe
Office: +41435000366 ext 408 / Mobile: +41792633406
coughlan(a)fsfeurope.org
Support Free Software > http://fsfe.org