FYI.
I am currently talking to Chris DiBona about potential funding avenues, and he showed interest in Open Standards and Certified Open. Below you find my information, sent along with Products + Services framework.
I would like Google to sign up to CO as one of the first companies, but we will need to tell them how much money exactly that would cost.
I remember having discussed this, but also remember that Graham wanted to give it some more thought at some point.
Any results?
Regards, Georg
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C. Proactive Open Standards
The Dynamic Coalition on Open Standards [1] was co-founded by FSFE at the IGF in Athens and has been bringing together governments, industry and civil society to debate the issue. We're planning to enlarge that work around the IGF in Rio in November. Related reading would be [2] which contains points of a better understanding of criteria for Open Standards that has been debated (among others) in the scope of IGF/DCOS and Certified Open between industry, policy makers and interested parties.
[1] http://igf-dcos.org [2] http://www.fsfe.org/fellows/greve/freedom_bits/an_emerging_understanding_of_...
For the "Certified Open" program, allow me to attach the Products and Services Framework, which should give you all the neccessary info. We are currently about to start the trial phase and seek to launch this for the wide public in early 2008.
There will be a Certified Open sign-up phase for industry supporters, and we would be delighted if Google were among them.
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