Quoting sara fink, from the post of Sat, 07 Feb: > HI Ira > > Who is the party? What subjects you raised with them? What distro you are > interested to install and what laws you intend to propose them?
Hi, sorry for the delay in replies, it's ben a crazy time these last few weeks :-) As some of you are bloggers and some are not, And since this is getting off-topic as well, I'll try to be brief, and link to the full info on other sites: Technology must-haves in platforms: http://hayeruka-meimad.org.il/technology Story behind it: http://www.2jk.org/praxis/?p=1813 Why Social-democratic votes are important: http://www.2jk.org/praxis/?p=1866 They say bloggers are early adopters... http://www.aplaton.co.il/story_513 (my own post on this will be online a little later today) Basically, for me "Open Source" is not just a cool tech toy. I use the term "Free Software" as part of the wider picture of individual freedoms and sustainability. If those things are dear to you as a proponent of freedom, if you are appaled like me by the idea of an Israeli DMCA, communications' censorship, tomorrow is the once-in-3-years you get to change something. I drafted some basic pragmatic proposals regarding the role of technology in the continuing problems caused by the lack of clearly defined speech and privacy rights in Israel, the digital devide, the social devides, and crumbling of the educational system, and of course the stopping of the Biometric DB law, among other issues. I found people that I could talk to and get excited about the ideas, and they are happy to cooperate. Participatory democracy at work! This is what Free Software is about, after all. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Participatory_democracy If any of this bugs you, you know why you absolutely have to go out tomorrow and vote for a Social-Democratic Ticket. It doesn't have to be the far left, I talked to at least 4-5 people who voted Likud and Liberman and will be voting Yeruka-Meimad this time. I hope whatever you do, you can take a few minutes to consider what's really at stake, and read their platform. If you want to discuss this forther, I'll be talking to Sara and the others who responded off-list, so please write me off-list if you want to join in. Thanks, Ira. -- Ira Abramov http://ira.abramov.org/blog/ _______________________________________________ Linux-il mailing list Linux-il@cs.huji.ac.il http://mailman.cs.huji.ac.il/mailman/listinfo/linux-il
