hi Otto,
* Otto Kekäläinen otto@fsfe.org [2012-07-31 19:22:34 +0300]:
As we've been involved in the Open/LibreOffice cases in Finland, I was thinking I could suggest to give a talk at the LibreOffice Conference 2012 in Berlin (http://conference.libreoffice.org/). What do you think?
I could go there as a FSFE representative and talk about LibreOffice in public administration in Finland.
That sounds very good.
What do you like the proposal texts below?
Bio: Otto Kekäläinen has 15 years of experience using, developing and promoting Linux based systems. During the last two years as the FSFE Finnish team coordinator he has been involved in increasing FOSS usage in the public administration in Finland.
Otto Kekäläinen has 15 years of experience using, developing and promoting GNU/Linux based systems. During the last two years as the FSFE Finnish team coordinator, he has been involved in increasing Free Software (Open Source) usage in the public administration in Finland. During his work he checked XY public procurements, if they are unfair towards LibreOffice and other Free Software.
Title: Dirty tactics howto NOT use LibreOffice in public administration
Talk:
"Migrating to OpenOffice would cost over 21 million euros", says Helsinki. FSFE filed a Freedom of Information request, asking the city how it had arrived at this surprisingly high cost estimates. But the city's administration insists that its calculations are based on a secret formula provided by a consultancy, and therefor they will not tell us.
In this presentation Otto Kekäläinen explains the current status of LibreOffice adaptation in Finland, what is keeping it back, what will be done to overcome the obstacles, and what other countries can learn about the experiences in Finland.
I hope it still helps.
Cheers, Matthias