Benjamin Kerensa has pointed out that the short URL provided by the We the People site doesn't appear to be working, though it did when I initially checked it. Anyway, here is the full URL: https://wwws.whitehouse.gov/petitions?_escaped_fragment_=/petition/lower-national-debt-expanding-governments-use-free-software-such-gnulinux-and-libreoffice/jkLbwPDC#!/petition/lower-national-debt-expanding-governments-use-free-software-such-gnulinux-and-libreoffice/jkLbwPDC
JVLB On 01/31/2012 01:23 PM, Benjamin Kerensa wrote: > On 01/31/2012 10:21 AM, James Bradley wrote: >> The We the People portion of the whitehouse.gov site has posted a >> petition calling for government to reduce spending by employing open >> source software. The petition can be found at: http://wh.gov/kCq >> >> To my mind, government using open source is just good business sense. As >> you may know, the whitehouse.gov site is hosted on Drupal. Still, there >> is no broad mandate that encourages agencies to consider open source >> solutions. If you agree there should be such a mandate, I would suggest >> you add your name to the petition. >> >> JVLB >> >> > > Thanks for sharing this James it seems like an excellent opportunity > to advocate for > FOSS in Government. Many governments have saved untold amounts by > deploying more FOSS. > -- Ubuntu-us-or mailing list [email protected] Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-us-or
