On Mon, 2002-10-28 at 10:21, Daniel Feiglin wrote: > >>>Who if anyone, is considered to be an open source guru/advocate in the > >>>Knesset? > >>>If none, is there anyone there who might know what it is?
Hi Daniel, In the past couple of weeks a group of us hackers (including Dror Ofek, Muli, Tzafrir, Orna, Nadav and Adv. Haim Ravia) have been involved in some political Open Source / Free Software related activity. Mainly through the great work of Haim Ravia, we've been called to a discussion of the Knesset Internet and information technology committee discussion about the subject and tried out best to represent the our views of there. After long and tedious discussions which were already published here, we got an invitation from KM Miki Eitan (chairmen and lone members of the committee) to propose (together with Doron Shikmoni of the Israeli chapter of ISOC a resolution of the committee)a resolution for the committee regarding that is designed to allow use of Open/Free software in the government and by the citizens but without limiting the freedom of teh technical authorities of the government organization to decide according to their best technical judgment by mandating use of what we call 'Open Standards. The proposal that we sent can be found here: http://benyossef.com/hamakor/resolution.html and we expect to be called for the next discussion of the committee to discuss it. In addition and in parallel we also involved in a project together with official from the ministry of finance, people from Sun, IBM, Mr. Eli Marmor and Mr. Jonathan Ben-Avraham (both are list subscribers I believe) to help Hebrewize the OpenOffice suite for use inside and outside of the government. We did encounter several clued people (to some degree) about the subject but as far as I can tell there is no single person in the Knesset that I would call 'Open Source' Guru as such and the efforts of our little group has been focused mainly on trying to provide some sort of representation and consulting to the government on this subject in lieu of inside knowledge. Mr Haim Ravia, especially, has been instrumental in this capacity. We'd very much love to get any and all help you can offer for our 'Hackivities'. Personally the only political party I identify with is 'Ale Yarok' as it is IMHO the only Israeli party which I'll trust in voting in my name about important matters but I have no idea what political views the other members hold, if any, and I don't really care. Does that help? Gilad. ================================================================= To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
