Slashdot Mirror

← Back to Stories (view on slashdot.org)

eGovOS 3 Announced

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the building-the-way-of-the-future dept.

A reader writes:"German Minister Otto Schily and at least 2 other ministers will be keynoting at EGOVOS 3: Open Standards and Libre Software in Government conference in Paris, France on November 24-26, 2003. EGOVOS 3 will bring together the largest number ever of high level government officials working in Open Source and Free Software. In addition to the national ministers, 15 senior politicians, government IT officials and representatives from the European Commission, Germany, Spain, France, Italy, Hungary, Belgium, the Netherlands, the UK, Australia, Canada, Malaysia, Mexico, Panama and the US will being making presentations." You will find general registration is open - free, but limited seating. Additionally, press registration is open as well. I normally don't post many conference announcements, but this one should have significant impact on governmental decisions around Free/Libre/Open/Whatever Software.

3 of 102 comments (clear)

  1. in the context of SW-Patents by blindcoder · · Score: 3, Informative

    So, OTOH german politicians want SW-Patents, but OTOH they talk at Free Software Conferences... hmm...

    --
    See my blog for my free opinions.
  2. Re:Open goverment from the people who know... by bhima · · Score: 2, Informative
    Does it really matter if a "A bearded hacker with l33t Linux skills" or a non-US citizen or for that matter a highly paid professional employed by a fortune 50 corporation, create the code; as long as it's open and free (as in speech).

    Addressing another comment:

    Does it matter what the motives are (i.e. political) that create open and free software as long as it is truly free?

    K.V.: Sorry about the Semicolon...

    --
    Nothing in the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity.
  3. Re:Politic by Frit+Mock · · Score: 3, Informative

    Americans tend to see themselves in the center of the world ... look, the earth is not the center of the universe, as americans are not the center of the world, at least not reagarding Linux development and not with Linux users! Look here where the developers come from: http://www.debian.org/devel/developers.loc.en.html and look here, where Linux users live (compared to the toatal population of the country) http://counter.li.org/reports/short.php?orderby=us erdensity#table